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March gth, 1922, had not yet been occupied by the Polish postal
service two years later. On April ~st, 1924, however, an agreement
regarding its evacuation was concluded, and it appears that it had
actually been evacuated by July rst, 1924. The Court does not
possess full information as to the manner in which the Polish post
at Danzig was organized in the meantime and after the substitution,
on January th, 1922, of the Warsaw Agreement of October 24th,
1921, for the provisional Agreement of April zznd, 1920.
On December ~st, 1924, the President of the Senate of the Free
City sent to the Polish Commissioner-General in Danzig a fresh
note dealing\'with, i. a., Article 168 of the Warsaw Agreement.
This note stated that the Free City was informed that Poland
intended to set its postal service in operation and to extend the
activities of that service beyond the sphere to which, according to
the opinion of Danzig, it was to be restricted. The Free City therefore asked to be informed whether Poland\'s intention was to establish a fait accompli, without previously having recourse to the
arbitration procedure provided for in the treaties. Danzig claimed
that its point of vie* regarding the restriction of the Polish service \\
was supported amongst other things by a certain passage taken ,
from the statement of reasons given by the High Commissioner in
his decision of December zyd, 1922, and by the High Commissioner\'s
letter of January 6th, 1923. Lastly, in his note of December ~st,
1924, the President of the Senate stated the opinion of the Free
City regarding the nature of Articie 168 of the Warsaw Agreement ;
Danzig took the view that it was not a question of a series of agreements already, in principle, concluded and only the precise terrns of
which remained to be drafted, but rather of a list of points not falling
within the framework of reciprocal rights recognized by the treaties,
and in regard to which the Parties were free to contract obligations
or not, at their discretion. Danzig for her part was prepared either
to open negotiations in regard to the general principle underlying
the article or to accept an arbitral decision on that question.
The Polish Commissioner General\'s reply was dated January 3rd,
1925. It was to the effect that Poland, having now beenenabled
to occupy the building at Heveliusplatz, intended to put its
postal service in operation and that this service wouldinclude letterboxes and postmen. The sphere of action of this service would be
the \"port of Danzig\" in the territorialsense of that expression, which
would be regarded for the present purpose as bounded bg the