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(((a) 1s the Polish postal service at the port of Danzig
restricted to operations which can be performed entirely
within its premises in the Heveliusplatz, or is it entitled
to set up letter-boxes and collect and deliver postal matter
outside those prernises ?
~((b) 1s the use of the said service confined to Polish
authorities and officials, or can it be used by the public ?\"
The Court has to consider, at the outset, the scope of the first
question. It should be observed that this question is couched in
general terms, without any specific reference to points (a) and (b)
of the second question.
In a letter to the High Commissioner, dated January z~st, 1925,
Poland maintained that the Polish postal service extended over the
territory delimited by the red line on the plan annexed to the decision of the High Commissioner of August ~gth, 1921, and asked
the High Commissioner to decide accordingly. The decision of
February znd, 1925, was to the effect that the Polish postal
operations were limited to the one building at Heveliusplatz
assigned to her for the purpose, thus rendering a decision on the
delimitation of the port unnecessary. One of the grounds of Poland\'s
appeal (February zoth, 1925) against this decision was that the
High Commissioner had fai!ed to give a definition of the port, as
requested by Poland. Danzig, in her reply to the Polish appeal,
under date of March and, 1925, contested Poland\'s claim in regard
to the definition of the port from the point of view of the Polish
postal service.
As regards the limits of the port, no question of res judicata
arises. Though Poland contends that the port of Danzig should be
delimited for postal purposes in accordance with the red line mentioned in the High Commissioner\'s decision of August 15th, 1921,
she does not argue that the said decision, the definitive character
of which is not disputed by either Govemment, has defined the
limits of the port from the point of view of the Polish postal service
as established under the Paris Convention. The fact that Poland
envisages the possibility of an extension of the limits of the port
for postal purposes beyond the red line is another proof that, in her
opinion, that line has not been fixed by a definitive decision as
to the boundary of the port. The Senate of Danzig on their side