LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 12

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

THE DANTZIC DISPUTE. REFERRED TO EXPERT COMMITTEE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. GENEVA, June 11. (Received June 12, at 5.5 p.rn.) The Council of the League of Nations concluded its session after disposing of a number of secondary questions. The chief dispute was between Dantzig and Poland regarding the boundaries of the Port. The council appointed a committee of expexts to decide the points at issue.—A. and N.Z. Cable. Before leaving Dantzig for the League Council meeting at Geneva in March M. Henry Strasburger, the Polish Minister and General Commissioner at Dantzig, granted an interview to the correspondent of the Morning Post, in the course of which he explained the administrative difficulties of Polish affairs in the Free City. He pointed out that the real life of the city and of the port as the clearing house and intermediary of Poland’s export traffic and business was negatived by political activity. He recalled the flagrant activities of Pan-Germanism carried on under the nose of—or rather in spite of—the League mandate, which affirms that matters relating to foreign affairs in Dantzig should bo conducted by Poland, These activities should be borne in mind when considering the external relations between Dantzig and Poland. M. Strasburger emphasised that the Dantzig authorities, acting under the influence of the atmosphere created by Berlin, raised innumerable , little questions to give a false impression of the situation and to make it appear that Poland is intransigent and aggressive. ‘‘Bar from being either _ intransigent or aggressive,” said the Minister, “Poland is only too anxious to work amicably with the Dantzigers for the development of their port—an end that the Dantzigers do not yet seem to see would be infinitely more profitable to them than playing the game of the German Nationalists, Hitlerites, etc.”