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As concerns the attitude of Danzig, the fact that, at a given
moment, the Free City did not, like Poland, insist on the delimitation
of the area of the port, finds its explanation in the interpretation
given by General Haking limiting the Polish postal service to operations in the interior of the building attributed to it and its use to
Polish authorities and officials. The Court, however, has discarded
this interpretation.
The limits of the port, considered as the area of the Polish postal
service, have not been fixed, as has been explained above.
The Court is not asked to define and delimit the port of Dznzig ;
but it considers it necessary to point out that, in its opinion, the
practical application of its answers depends on the question of the
limits of the port of Danzig within the meaning of the Treaty
stipulations.
FOR THESE REASONS,
The Court is of opinion :
(1) that there is not in force any decision of General Haking which
decides in the manner stated in paragraph 18 of thé present High
Commissioner\'s decision of February znd, 1925, or otherwise, the
points at issue regarding the Polish posta! service ;
(2) that, within the port of Danzig :
(a) the Polish postal service is entitled to set up letter-boxes
and collect and deliver postal matter outside its premises in the
Heveliusplatz, and is not restricted to operations which can be
performed entirely within those premises ;
(b) the use of the said service is open to the public and is not
confined to Polish authorities and officials. I
DONE in French and English, the English text being authoritative, at the Peace Palace, The Hague, this sixteenth day of May,
nineteen hundred and twenty-five, in two copies, one of which
is to be deposited in the archives of the Court, and the other to be
forwarded to the Courici! cf the League of Nations.

(Signed) MAX HUBER,
President .
(Signed) A. HAMMARSKJOLD,
Regis trar.