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The treaties of peace which ended the was filled the map of Europe with strange torritorial warts and excrescences: the

42 ** corrido: " is the most dis Danzig figuring of them all; and since it is now boing spoken of as something which pre vents Europe settling down to pesce and tranquillity it behoves us to con- sider why it is there.

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DIVORCE SUIT BY MURDERER,

MAN IN A CRIMINAL LUNATIC ASYLUM.

A petition for divarce by a criminal hatic nadergoing a life sentence for the murder of his child was heard in the Divorce Court in London last month, the petitioner. Nathaniel Box was

His counsel, Mr. Horridge, said Box was an immate of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic. Asylum, having been sentenced nt Durham to be detained at hiss Majesty's pleasure.

His evidence, taken on examination, was that he was married at Easington." Durham, in 1914, and had lived there with his wife Julia."

The frontiers of Poland, as fixed ac- cording to the Treaty of Versailles, were based on the principles enunciated in the 13th of President Wilson's Points: An independent Polish State should be erected, which should include

Mrs. Jane Box, of Easington. Box's the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be another, said Nathaniel was a colliery sured a free and secure access to the sea, worker, and in 1824 he suffered an acci- and whose politica) and economic inte dent which affected his mind. He was the. grity should be guaranteed by an inter-convicted in 1918 for murdering one of

Thus President his children. She had since seen national Covenant.' Wilson; and the authors of the articles wife with a young child..

A register from Somerest House was which delimit the Polish frontier did their

produced showing that Box's wife regis best to give effent to his idens.

The inhabitants of the corridor" are [tered the birth of a child in Septeinber Kashubes. They are a distinct branch of 1999

Mr. Justice Swift said counsel bad the Polish race, but speak a dialect of Polish and are as indisputably Poles not proved the ease. He must prove the Saxons of Bavarians are indisputby evidence other than her, own that In drawing the Julia Box gave birth to a child. He Ably Germans. frontier no account was taken of what would adjourn the case and allow that had been Polish territory before the fact to be proved on affidavit.

As it was a poor person's case, and partition of 12. The chief guides were

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the ethnographical maps of the German having regard to the peculian elveum- Government, which indicated by constances, he would not require, the peti munes the districts containing a majorits tioner to be represented by a guardian. of German-speaking or Polish-speaking inhabitants. So far as possible, the frantier was ɓxed so as to leave to Poland only communes where there was a Polish speaking majority. The result is a state of affairs which satisfies neither Poles nor German

The "eorridor." as it appears on the belt of territory running along map, is the left bank of the Vistula and tapering gradually as it nears the sea. At its narrowest it is only about 20 miles broad. To the Germans there seems something provokingly unreasonable in this narrow bstacle.. which divides one part of their country frim the other. They maintain that the Kashubes, who are a simple people of peasants and fisher-folk, were at least as contented under Prussian rule as they are under Polish, and they chafe under the annoyances which the new frontiers impose upon them. It is not the through railway static front distant, parts of Germany to Königsberg and Tilsit which saffers." On the main trains the Customs and passport examination is perfunctory, and the Poles claim that they take less time to pass over that! part of the line than they did when it was Germao.

But to the local population the Cas- toms formalities, and the necessity of always having papers properly visard, are a constant source of irritation. They cause waste of time and great inconven- ience. The existence of the "corridor " is a sore point to every patriotic Ger- taan, wherever he lives, but to those who dwell along the frontier, or in the "corridor itself under Polish rule, its existence is a practicni nuisance which the lapse of time will never abate.

Mr. Horridge asked that Bux's mother should have custody of the children. It was not desirable that the legitimate and illegitimate children should live to gether.

Judge: Why not The wife was in a terrible situation. It is not surprising that after a decent lapse of time she i should form another association. It is not worse for the children than if the mother had legitimately married a step- father.

The mere fact that shey was living with another man is not enough for me to deprive her of their custody." added the judge.

Mrs. Jane Box, recalled, "said that Julia Box was not living with anyone else, and treated the children well. -No order was made as to custody.

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JUNIOR MANAGEE'S "LEAF.” llere is a letter which un East. In- dian firm in London has received from a native agency in Calcutta:-"Dear Sirs-We are duly in receipt of your With deep favour. By this mail we have nothing specially profound to say. regret, however, which reads our ng grieved hearts, we beg to announce that a deep misty cloud" recently hovered It did not clear over us for eight days. away until it successfully washed off our hands our most steady, energetic, and Breathing his pious junior manager. last on the night of the 28th ultimo, and leaving us to look after his path with wistful, no fearful eyes, he leapt up THE FREE CITY." ".

to his everlasting green celestial palace

Awaiting ar If the Germans hate the "corridor," in the heaven above,

Free City other instructions, wo are, etc." the Poles hate the Danzig no less. They feel a sense of deep injustice because Danzig was not included in Poland under the Peace

rust depend on being able to use Danzig Treaty, and the way their controversy

in any emergency in which the sofer with the Free City has developed

of the country was involved. Gdynia, makes it rankle. President Wilson de manded free and secure access to the therefore, is being built as a safeguard for- but a long channel will have to be dred. sea for the new Poland. The ridor gives the Poles about 10 miles ged through shoal-water before it can be

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of perfectly useless seaboard. The estuary used by vessels of any size, and it will

of the Vistula. which forms the real out-need years of work and millions of capital let seawards for all that part of the coun- before it can in the slightest degree com- try, has been exeised from the end of the pete with Danzig as a commercial port. "corridor to form the territory of the The "free and secure access to the sea" "Free City." The Free City itself postulated by President Wilson remains was the conception of certain historians an illusion.

Thus the present state of affairs is who remembered that, years before, Danzig had been a city with special rights equally objectionable to the Germans and privileges within "the Kingdom of and the Poles, but there is no way out Poland, and that the German blood of of it which both parties would accept. its merchants had not prevented their The Poles refuse to consider, the slightest being very loyal subjects of the Polish alteration of their frontier, and their Crown. The 16th century warehouses argument is sound. There is no such rea which stored the Polish grain still stand son for the suppression of the "corridor" beside the Danzig canals, and to this except that it annoys the Germans. The day the gilded figure of a Polish king latter, cannot claim that it seriously in- surmounts the spire of the old town hall. terferes with their trade, or that it re- But one extcot make history repeat moves a large number of Germans from itself. The days when Danzig (Gdansk) German rule. Its population is as Polish stood or fell with Poland were before an that of Posnania; it was annexed by Germany was united and the Pan-German Prussia only 20 years before Fosnania. idea had become a force in Europe. The Would you, ask the Poles of an Eng modern Danzigers are just as 'chauvinistic lisharan, admit that the Germans had as any Prussian from Stettin or Königs-a better right to Norfolk than to Kent? berg. When the Poles talk about the If they get the corridor now they will want Upper Silesia ter years later, and rights granted them by the Peace Posnania after that." Treaty in the port and city of Danzig, the Danzigers reply:Are we, or are we not, a free city? If we are free, then of the

are masters here, and not you." deutschen) have a complete contempt There is constant bickering between the for the Poles, and, are quite determined Warsaw Government and the Danzig that they will get back all that they have Senate and there is very little sign as lost in time. They would regard the sup- yet that the commercial interdependence pression of the corridor

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of the port and its hinterland, in which step. The change would certainly weaken the authors of that section of the Treaty Poland's position, for if her communica put their trust, will bring about friend. tions with the Baltic are doubtful under lier relations between the nation and the present conditions, they will be infinitely city: they distrust one another com- more shaky if the whole belt of Pome- rellia, through which they pass, becomes plétely.

German again.

POLISH HARBOUR. Slittle confidence have the Poles in Danzig that they have began to develop a harbour of their own at Gdynia, to the west of the Vistula mouth, and just out side the territory of the Free City That is because they have found that, certain cases and for certain purposes, Danzig will not serve them as a port.

The Polish remedy for the case would be to make Danzig Polish. But this is not practical politics, and has never been put forward from any authoritative Polish quarter. No solution of the "corridor" problem is practical politics at present, and the sooner the rest of Europe realizes. this the sooner a measure of tranquillity will be possible. It is talking about such

It may not be used as a station for the insoluble questions as these which pro- half-dozen patrol vessels and torpedo duces the sense of insecurity which it is Some craft which form the Polish Navy. More the common aim to remove, since they

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