Relations between Lithuania and Poland have been strained ever since the first years of the post-War period, when in 1920, a Polish army occupied Vilna, the former Lithuanian capital, and a "corridor" of territory morth of the Niemen, thus driving a wedge between Lithuania and Soviet Russia, The Lithuanians have never agreed io that occupation even after the Allied Powers in 1923 had decided that Vilna was definitely Polish. They transferred their capital to Kaunas, and retaliated by closing the Niemen and the port of Memel to the Poles.
The League of Nations since then has unsuccessfully attempted to solve the dispute.
Indianapolis, Mar. 18. "Mr. Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, decided to return to Manila by Clipper ship today because of the sudden illness of his wife—Reuter, The situation is further complicated by the fact that Germany claims Memel and its territory, attributed to Lithuania by the Versailles Treaty, as a part of East Prussian territory which must be returned to the Third Reich.—Havas,
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