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...good rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...
...Storm in a Mail Box," which has for some time been agitating the Free Citiy of Danzig* (TIME, Jan. 19) and has had sundry repercussions in Poland and Germany, flared up anew...
Last week, Mr. Macdonnell ruled that the Poles were not entitled to a separate mailbox service and therefore had no right to paint the Danzig mailboxes in the Polish colors...
Poles were furious. Appeal to the League of Nations at Geneva was lodged. The Polish Army Chiefs began to rattle their sabres. Polish business men said they would not participate in a forthcoming fair at Danzig...
...Free City of Danzig, with its territory, forms a corridor between Germany and its province of East Prussia and thus allows the Poles an economic outlet to the Baltic Sea. To Germans, the status quo is intolerable; to Poles, it is indispensable; thus, the former, by insidious propaganda, seek to restore the status quo ante; while the latter, by the same methods, seek to improve the status quo in favor of Poland...