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FREE CITY UNDER THE
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INTRICACIES OF THE DANZIG
PROBLEM: *
NITROGEN WELLS UNTAPPED RESOURCES OF CANADA
Discussing the necessity for the employ-
The Free City of Danzig is one of thement of scientific methods in the develop mysteries of the Treaty of Versailles fessor J. C. McLennan, "of the University, ment of Canada's natural resources, Pro- which the League of Nations has been of Toronto, addressing the Special Com left to elucidata.
The Allies, in signing the Treaty, Scientific Research, gave farther interest- mittee of the House of Commons on dertook to make Danzig a Free City andying information regarding the discovery subscribed to a number of statements and commercial utilization of belium gas. about the conditions of its existence, over in Canada which the good people of Danzig and the Foles have been puzzling their lenda ever since. Almost query clause leaves some point open to doubt or quation. The problem evidently has not yet been really faced, and it cannot be until it is known what the Free City is going to be and who is going to govern it
Perhaps you will permit me to refer to one other possible line of development. During the search for helium it was gases issuing from wells situated in the found that practically all the natural Fraser Valley, British Columbia, or from those on the islands of the Gulf of Georgia, consisted of pure nitrogen. Those gases were, of course, non-inflam mable, and were considered on that ac count of no particular value.";
"Although it will not pay to use the gas for balloons under peace conditions said Professor McLennan, "every effort is being made to develop technical uses for this gas, and it is possible that it may yet be required in large quantities for the articles of commerce. In a technical re- production of gas-filled lamps and other to it, such technical possibilities can be search institute or in institutions allied worked out. By the terms of the Treaty the conscientific men to take part in
Will you elettes Bovyop develop stitution of Danzig is to be drawn up by menti “the duly appointed representatives of the Free City in agreement with a High Commissioner to be appointed by the League of Nations" Who are the duly appointed representatives of the Free City Nobody knows. At present the principal representative of Danzig is the Oberbürgermeister, Dr. Sahm, who in German official, and who, apart from his office, has nothing to do with Danzig. Whether Dr. Sahm and all the other German officials, as persons "ordinarily resident" within the city, will becoms Danzigers from the moment the Treaty is ratified is by no means clear. Are he and the present municipal council to be regarded as the "duly appointed repre. son tatives" of the city, or are fresh elec tions to be held The High Commissioner is expected to be able to give a ruling on this point, and everybody in Danzig is saking who he is going to be and when he is coming.
When will the Free City come into axis tence? Again, nobody knows. From the moment that the Tranty is ratified all persons ordinarily resident" within the limita laid down for it tease to be Germans and become merely Danzigers the German Government will cease to take any interest in them, but what the new City State to which they are to be long will be and how it is to exist re mains as much an uncertainty as the League of Nations itself.
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"In the production of cyanamid, and cyanides you know that vast plants are required to extract the nitrogen from the air. If it should turn out that the sup ply of nitrogen which can be drawn from the wells in the Fraser Valley is consid erable and permanent, you hays in this cyanides and fertilizers on the Pacifo resoures 2 basis for the production of Coast. At such places as Stave Lake you have large blocks of electric power either developed or developable. In the neigh bourhood you have large deposits of dry- stalling marble and coal a well"
The conditions are, therefore, favourable. Of course the land in the Fraser Valley is exceedingly fertile now. It will not
always remain so amounts. In the meantime the lands in fertilizers will be required in large and artificial
the Sacramento Valley and those in the north-western portions of the United States nord a market for any supplies that may become available. China, too, tra large amounts" of artificially-made- fertilizera.
Many
"Here, then, are wealth-producing in- This condition of things is more seri-dustries that can possibly be developed ous than appears at first sight It is
with great prost in our country. much simpler to chop off a small piece but from what has been stated you will more possibilities might be referred to from a highly organized country than to make that piece stand by itself. Danzig ledge, then backed by imagination and see clearly pough that scientific know- contains a number of important instita supported financially by our people, tions of the German Government. There should be of the greatest service in the is a big shipbuilding yard and two large building of our industrial life. munition works, one for rifles, the other for artillery, which in normal times em ploy about 5,000 men Danzig is also at For-oon reason or another the Govern important railway depot with big loco ment has now changed its policy of motive shops. Finally there is the technisabotage: The dockyard and munition cal academy, which serves the needs not only of Danzig, bus of a large part of Prussia, All the oficials and work people of the dockyard and munition works and the teachers of the Technische Hochscrule are now casing to be paid by the Ger man Government, and have no one to employ them but the Free City of Danzig. To a State of only a few hundred thou- and inhabitants each of these institutions is a white elephant. Danzig alone will be quite unable to accept the inancial burden which their upkeep represents (writes the Time Warsaw respond ent).
The majority of the regular employes of the dockyard and the manition face tories are already out of work, and have heen receiving unemployment dolo. Only one-sixth of this expense has so far been borne by the city and the rest by the Government. Now the city will be addled with the whole. That is only one-spec of the question. Hitherto the city budget has been about 20,000,000 marice; now that Danzig is to be cut away from Germany it is calculated that it will be six times as much.
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works have been handed over to the city of Danzig as trustee, together with a grant to enable work to be carried The dockyard has been given an order to build some trawlers, and, according to Dr. Sahm, the munition works are being adapted to turn out carriages, trunks, and other articles of peace.
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about by force of circumstances and the This improvement has only been brought threat of Bolshevism among the working population. It might all have been arranged long ago if an Allied Commis sion had been sent to Danzig as soon as peace was signed to stady the future of the Free City. This was not done: the only representatives of the Entente there have been the members of the Allied Re lief Commirsion, whose businers it hes been to see that the food and stores signed to Poland were properly forward- con- ed. The German Government has taken advantage of this neglect to refuse to furn The city is still placarded with posters the actual situation created by the Treaty. calling upon the German population to from Germany Poles are forbidden to combine to prevent Danzig being taken wear Polish badges and colours. The "It is beyond question that the Polish have any official representative in Danzig Polish Government has been unable to Government will have to assume a large to look after its interests except the part of the responsibility for Danzig which has so far been borne by the Germission. man Government. The Treaty provides bat the Poles shall control and adminie ter the Vistula waterways and the whole patriotic Germans among them, have of the railway system within the limite hesitated to devote all their attention to
Polish members of the Allied Relief Com-
In consequence the real Danzigera have not known where they stood. The most
of the Free City. Poland is to be reward adapting themselves to the new con snsible for the foreign relations of ditions, and have sat on the fence with Danzig, and is to undertake its diploma one eye on von der Goltz's Army at Mitaa, tis representation abroad. The exact re waiting, like Mr. Micawber, for some lations between Poland and the Free City thing to turn up. In are to be settled in a treaty to be negotiate future of the Free City they lay stress discussing the ed by the Allies, but a negotiations can upon the disadvantages which Danzig will not be begun until the Free City tab Union and having to accept the Polish suffer in entering the Polish Customs lished both Germans and Foles have boca growing more and mere nervous of one mark as its currency. They have no con- azother.
fidence in the future of Poland or Polish talent for organization and ad- ministration, and igure to themselves a Free City which shall actually remain property out of Danzig There is a clause endeavour to reduce in the Treaty which provides that all the Danzig under the Treaty of Versailles to rights in property of the German Government a minimum. They support & proposal to
provide Danzig, with
palice force
.. ILLEGAL REMOVAL OF STONES.
As soon as the Treaty was signed the
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German Government began to clear its part and parcel ̈0 Poland and will
shall pass into the hands of the Allica for disposal either to Poland or the Freecruited from the Reichswehr. City na may seem equitable. In spite of business men who have a more sanguine There are, however, a number of Danzig this the Germans began to remove store conception of the future of their city in and equipment from the harbour and its new relation to Poland. They have dockyard am fnet as they could. Ships united in an economic league grapes, machinery, ste, were sold right chaftsbund) which has been trying to get 64(Wirts and left to anybody except the Poles into touch with the Warsaw Government There are a number of old warships to prepare the ground for negotiations. lying in the port with the name of the As a result of their initiative & delegation Datch firm which has purchased them of some 20 persons, representing all inter stescilled on their hulle The forting ests of Dantig, will probably vist Warsaw docks were to have been towed alt to in the next week or so. Meanwhile, the Stettin, but bere the dockyard labourers, sooner the High Commissioner enters who saw their scuros of livelihood being upon his functions, the better. The taken from them, stepped in and sand problem to beolved in establishing one of them to prevent its being remov.Danzig sa a Free City are innumerable ed. For the same reason they strack, and and particularly intricate, and there are demonstrated a week ago when was plenty of people in Germany who are proposed to take the old warships to interested in aceing that they are not Holland to be broken up, and ained solved at all. The more delay there is în their point
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grappling with the whole question, the
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