10 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 17

The new Baltic States are still unable to settle their

petty disputes. Memel, nominally the charge of the Allied Powers, is still held by Lithuanian insurgents, though Allied warships are lying in the harbour. The issue has:now been complicated by a_ flaring up of the old dispute between Lithuania and Poland for the pos- session of Vilna. On the ethnographical maps Vilna appears to be well inside Lithuanian territory, but it has been held by the Poles since 1920, when a Polish General executed a coup d'etat against the Lithuanian Government. The League of Nations has as yet been quite unable to intervene effectively, as first one side and then the other has rejected its decisions.