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III.
The Court, having arrived at the conclusion that the points at
issue regarding the Polish postal service in the Port of Danzig have
not been settled by any decision in force, has now to deal with
the two questions formulated by the Council under No. 2 (a)
and (6) of their Request.
In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to state briefly
what is the nature and scope of the Polish postal service in the Port
of Danzig.
The Treaty of Versailles (Article 104) made provision for a
Convention between the Free City of Danzig and Poland which,\'
with a view to giving Poland free access to the sea, was designed
to secure to that State, amongst other things, the control and administration of the postal, telegraph and telephone communication
between Poland and the Port of Danzig. These rights of Poland
were defined by Chapter IV of the Paris Convention in four articles
which run as follows :
Article 29.
\"Poland shall have the right to establish in the port of
Danzig a post, telegraph and telephone service communicating
directly with Poland. Postal and telegraphic communications
via the port of Danzig between Poland and foreign countries,
as also communications between Poland and the port of
Danzig, shall be dealt with by this service.\"
Article 30.
\"The Free City of Danzig undertakes to lease or to sel1 to
Poland on equitable terms the necessary land or buildings for
the establishment and working of the services provided for
in Article 29 as well as in Article 21. The Free City undertakes
to accord to Poland al1 the facilities necessary for the installation of the telegraph and telephone lines required for the
application of the said article.\"
Article 31.
\"Al1 other postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications within the territory of the Free City, as also communica-