30 OCTOBER 1920, Page 2

The elaborate clauses of the Treaty of Versailles under which

Danzig was to be a Free City while Poland had the right to use the port have proved difficult to work. The Connell of Ambassadors last week drafted a Polish-Danzig Convention which Poland declined to accept. This Convention would place the whole port under the control of a Polish-Danzig Council, whereas the Treaty gives Poland a distinct free area in the port. The question assumed practical importance during the Bolshevik attaok on Warsaw, when the Danzig dockers, presumably under orders from Berlin, refused to unload ships bringing supplies for Poland. It is clear that Poland must be protected against further hostility of this kind, and that the Danrig people must reconcile themselves to co-operating amicably with the Poles.