A CONDOMINIUM.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160639, 4 May 1920, Page 6

A CONDOMINIUM.

These provisions, together with the thor stipulation that the Polish do is to have consideration in the ;hi sal by the Principal Allied and

ssociated Powers of the property of he German Empire or any German hate within the territory of the Free Oifcy of Danzig—e.g., fortresses, barracks, land used for military purposes, naval dockyard, small arms factory, railways and railway workshops, etc., will create in Danzig a condominium of a very complicated and cumbrous kind, which will only work smoothly if the claims of the two States concerned are balanced by a firm and impartial hand. For a long time, and it may be permanently, racial feelings on both sides will be strained and perhaps bitter. the Germans, conscious than they and their fathers have made Danzig what it is, are intensely mortified at being no longer' masters of their own house, and apprehensive that under alien influence the national civilisation will suffer and their town’s commercial prosperity be crippled, the Poles are eager to assert themselves and make the most of the advantages secured to them by the Treaty of Versailles. Already, in fact, the Polish Government has sent Danzig a delegation charged with the furtherance of Poland’s economic interests in the city, and it is reported to have made large purchases of buildings for commercial purposes and valuable sites without regard for cost.