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the standpoint of municipal law, of Polish authorities and offices
in the territory of the Free City of Danzig.\"
It will be seen that there is no trace of any provision confining
the operation of the Polish postal authorities to the inside of its
postal building. The postal service which Poland is entitled
to establish in the port of Danzig must be interpreted in its ordinary
sense so as to include the normal functions of a postal service as
regards the collection and distribution of postal mat<er outside the
post-office. Indeed, any limitations or restrictions in this respect
would be of so exceptional a character that they cannot, in the
absence of express reservations, be read into the text of treaty
stipulations.
Both sides have put forward arguments as to the exact meaning
of the phrase \"al1 classes ( Arten) and branches (Zweige) of the traffic
service and of the technical and administrative services and the installations (Einricht~ngen) necessary for such services\" (Article 150 (a)
of the Warsaw Agreement). Danzig contends, while Poland
denies, that the word \"installations\" refers to the interior service
(innerhalb des internen Dienstes). The Court is of the opinion that
this point cannot affect the conclusion which it has arrived at. The
article in question begins with these words : \"It (i.e. the service)
extends . . . to\", etc. (Er erstreckt sich). This article read in
connection with the preceding and subsequent articles should be
interpreted in the sense of including the things enumerated
therein, and not in the sense of excluding the postal service from
exercising its normal functions in collecting and delivering postal
matter outside the postal building.
By the terms of Article 29 of the Paris Convention, Poland is
entitled to establish in the port of Danzig postal, telegraph and telephone communications between Poland and other countries via the
port of Danzig, and between Poland and the port of Danzig. There
is nothing in the texts of the international agreements which suggests
any limitation of the use of the postal service to Polish authorities
and offices. As will be explained hereafter, the expression \"port
of Danzig\" was understood by the contracting Parties to be a territorial conception. It is perfectly clear that the right which Poland
has under the terms of the international agreements is a right to
communications with the port of Danzig, in its territorial sense.
What are the exact limits of the port is a question with which the