STRANGE SITUATION.
Capital of Country Outside Frontiers. POSITION IN LITHUANIA. (Received 2 p.m.) KOVXO, January 30. .The strange situation of a capital of a country being outside its frontiers will exist when the Lithuanian Parliament meets to-morrow to adopt a new consti--1 tution, which includes a provision that ' Yilna, which the Poles seized in 1920, shall be declared the Lithuanian capital. ' The situation recalls the fact that Lithuania and Poland never agreed regarding their mutual frontier, and ( both still claim Yilna. The problem has defied numerous attempts at settlement.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1938, Page 7
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