Word: danzig
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...rotorship Buckau, first of its kind, set sail from Danzig for Leith, Scotland, with a cargo of lumber. The voyage is to be the first commercial test of this new type of wind-propelled ship. Its trip from Kiel to Danzig to take on cargo was productive of conflicting reports: some said the Buckau went by her wind; some, by means of her auxiliary engine...
...Free City of Danzig, which is joined to Poland by a corridor through East Prussia, and which is shepherded by the League of Nations, a postal war was fought last week in novel hues...
Germans awoke one fine morning to find that all the mail boxes had been painted white and red-the Polish national colors. The Danzig authorities protested, stating that Poland was permitted postal sovereignty only within the Polish postoffice. The protest fell upon deaf ears. The next night, Germans repainted the mail boxes black, white and red-the old colors of Imperial Germany. Poles, angered, demanded an apology. No apology was given; the authorities instead asked the League for a ruling...
...Warsaw, Polish capital, national ire scaled great heights. The press fumed, warned Danzig that, unless it were more careful, it might become heir to a military occupation. It also reminded the unhappy Germans in Danzig that Poland "has powerful friends" - France, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia - and could carry out her threats...
...machine shops, commissaries, coaling plants, etc., the net revenue amounted to $18,254,459-handsome enough. U. S. ships were by far the greatest users of the Canal, contributing 61.7% of the total. Great Britain stood next with 22.4%; and 19 other nations, including the Free City of Danzig, Yugo-Slavia, Finland, trailed with none of them as much as 5% of the traffic. Exactly half the ships using the Canal were engaged in the U. S. intercoastal trade. In all, 5,230 toll-paying ships, having a net tonnage of 26,148,878, used the Canal. Since the Canal...