20 MARCH 1920, Page 2

The plebiscite taken by the Allies. in Central Slesvig on

Sunday last showed an overwhelming German majority. In Flensborg three German votes were cast against each Danish vote. In the whole district the German voters outnumbered the Danes by nearly four to one. Only three or four of the northern parishes showed Danish majorities. The Allied Commission will now have to delimit a frontier " based on the result of the voting " and " taking into account the particular geographical and economic conditions of the localities in question." (le result justifies-the unwillingness of the Danish Government to claim or accept Slesvig as a whole. Northern Sleevig is clearly Danish in sentiment, as it was in 1864, but the rest of . Sleevig, including Flensborg, prefers to remain German.