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With reference to this decision, the Danzig Administration replied
on December zgth, 1922, that they were perfectly prepared to
continue negotiations on the subject of Article 168, but that, for
the purposes of these negotiations, regard must also be had to
the decision of December ~3rd. The Polish Administration on
January ~oth, 1923, expressed the contrary opinion.
The Senate of the Free City had already on January 4tl1, 1923,
made application to the High Commissioner for a decision upon
Poland\'s clajms concerning the sphere of activity of the Polish postal
service, as set forth in the note of December gth, 1922, claims which
the Senate regarded as unjustified.
The High Commissioner, on January 6th, 1923, transmitted to the
Polish Commissioner-General in Danzig the Senate\'s application of
January 4th under cover of a letter in which he said that, in his view,
-no decision was necessary, since the decision already given made it
quite clear that Poland had no right to establish a postal service
extending in any respect outside the premises allotted to it.
In reply to this letter the High Commissioner was informed on
January zoth, 1923, by Poland that she considered Danzig\'s
application to be premature, since negotiations between the Parties
had hardly been begun. And in a letter dated March znd, 1923, the
Polish postal Administration proposed to the postal Administration
of Danzig that they should in the first place settle the limits of the
area of operation d! the office at Heveliusplatz, a proposition which,
however, the latter Administration, in a letter of March zoth,
declined to accept, not considering itself competent to deal with
it under Article 168 of the Warsaw Agreement. No further
steps seem to have been taken to settle the question before
December ~st, 1924.
The High Commissioner\'s decision of December 23rd, 1922, above
referred to, followed an exchange of views between Poland and
Danzig which took place concurrently with the discussion above
described regarding Article 168 of the Warsaw Agreement.
The exchange of views above mentioned related to the question
whether Poland was entitled to establish at the Danzig main railway
station not only a transshipment office but also a sorting office. As
direct discussion of the matter between the Parties led to no result,
the High Commissioner appears to have invited them to hold a conference under his auspices. Following this conference, which took