5. Memelland.--- The Memelland was renounced by Germany in the Treaty of   
Versailles, June 28, 1919.  It was placed under Lithuanian   
administration by the convention signed on May 7, 1924 by the Principal   
Allied Powers and by Lithuania on May 17, 1924.  It was ceded by   
Lithuania to Germany and by representatives of the former Lithuanian   
nment.  It may also be claimed by the Soviet Union and by Po
 
                                                            
 
 
Memelland had an area of 943 square miles, and a total population of   
152, 000. In 1925 the ethnic-linguistic division was 44 percent German,   
27 percent lithuanian, and 25 percent "Memellander", Memel is the   
principal Baltic port of Lithuania and is the outlet for the important   
Niemen watersystem.  In 1939 approximately three-fourths of Lithuanian   
         foreign commerce passed through this port.         
 
                                                            
 
 
6. East Prussia.--- East Prussia remainded under German sovereignty,   
although physically separated from the rest of Germany, after the   
"Corridor" was transferred to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles.  The   
western adn part of the southern boundries of East Prussia were fixed by   
the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, August 16, 1920, following a   
plebiscite in teh Marienwerder and Allenstein districts, held in   
accordance with the Treaty of Versailles.  Under the final settlement,   
Poland received a narrow riparian strib along the east bank of the  
 Vistule, varying in width from a few feet to a half mile.  
 
                                                            
 
 
The area of East Prussia under the 1920 boundaries was 14, 283 square   
miles.  According to the census of May 1939 the population was   
2, 496, 017 persons.  According to teh census of 1925 -- the most   
reliable index of linguistic distribution-- the polish population of   
East Prussia was 40, 502, to which might be added the 62,596 Masurians,   
Slavs who speak a dialect akin to Polish, residing in the district of   
Allenstein.  Polish sources estimate the Polish population of East  
Prussia at upwards of 400,000.  The whole of East Prussia is now   
claimed by the Polish Government.  The Soviet Union apparently favors   
Polish acquisition of part or all of the province but may claim the   
eastern sector, including the chief city and part of Koenigsberg, for   
                          itself.                           
 
                                                            
 
 
7. Danzig.--- The Danzig area was renounced by Germany in the Treaty of   
Versailles, June 28, 1919, and proclaimed a Free City with a High   
            Commissioner appointed by the League            
 
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