What strikes one on reading the list: of appointees is not the number of positions that are left vacant; some of these may be filled by Japanese, but the number of dual and even treble positions that are being filled by one man. For example the new Mayor is head of the City, bead of the Court, and head of the Police Department. Great difficulty must hate been ex-
For nearly 1,000 years, since first in the chronicles of history (10th century) until present time, Danzig has belonged to Poland, with the' exception of the years 1308 71464, 1199—1807 and 1815-1919. The fust Danzig inhabitants weft Slavs, the majority being Poles. In 1308 the Knights of the Teutonic Order, brought to Poland by one of the Polish princelings, having gained pos; session of Danzig by subterfuge, destroyed the town; and slaughtered about 10,000 unarmed citizens, later to be replaced by German colonists.
In 1454, following Poland's victory over the Teutonic Knights, in which the was greatly assisted by the inhabitants of Danzig, the town. reverttd'to Poland. As a reward for their 1e the war, the King granted the town the privileges of a Free City.
During the next 340 years of close contact between Danzig and Poland, Danzig condücted the maritime trade of the Polish Republic. During this period Danzig's prosperity grew very rapidly. It became, after. Amster-Gam, the second largest port in Europe, Danzig always was most loyal and deeply attached to Poland, Forcibly annexed by. Prussia' in 1795, despite the armed opposition put up by the people, Danzig declined to the status of a small garrison town in Prussia of secó importance from which the Polish element was evacuated by force, its place being taken by Germans:
During the periods of separation from Poland the turnover of the port of Danzig declined considerably prior to the Great War, this turnover was about two millions tons.. After being incorporated into the Polish Customs system, i.e. on the restoration of confact with its natural economic back-Sound, Poland, the port's turnover commenced to grow very rapidly and for the past years this was 7,200,000
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