Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-29 | Page 29 | Danzig Fears Polish Plans for Creating New Seaport on Baltic

Danzig Fears Polish Plans s' s For Creating New Seaport on Baltic Growth of Gdynia May Undermine Business S J Ancient Town Believes I DANZIG Sept S AP Is Is the lan city of ot Danzig to share the rate fate of ot Venice once a n most important commercial harbor of Italy tourIsts tourists tour tour- now merely a a. city of or of or Vienna until 1918 the time proud capital of r the dual monarchy now ow the dying city 1 S Throughout Through ut the German speaking world there is an ineradicable le fear tear tha the Poles Potes' ar are creating In Gdynia only twelve and one half miles from Danzig a rival rhal harbor which may may outclass Danzig Danzig- arid and re reduce re- re d duct duce Cl the thO reo's te to inactivity and desuetude Tho The Poles 1 hotly iy deny any intention intention inte tion of ot undermining Danzig They marshal a great grent arla array of ot fis figures figures' res to show that Is has picked Up up wonderfully wo llY since the creation n not of ot the Polish and Ind Danzig states 1 Thus Alfred Si statistical statistical statis static expert of ot tho the Polish cons consulate tate general g at Dnn Is- Is points out that while the tho number of or engaged engaged en en- sag sag-ed in iii agricultural pursuits s or in Industry Industry- has about remained stationary stationary sta sta- the number engaged in trade has Increased from In 1907 to In 1923 and andIs Is steadily steadily stead stead- ily fly growing COMPARES FIGURES further compares tho amount of ot goods passing through Danzig toda today as compared with 1913 with the tho amount passing U through roush a number of 0 German ports in the time same interval He finds that while Hamburg Ei has recovered 98 S Sper per cent of its prewar harbor trade Brem Bremen n 77 per cent Stettin 65 Lue Lue- beck 76 and Kiel Klel 89 Danzig in 1927 had per cent of ot its prewar trade The principal items of ot export passing through Danzig he points out are aro coal and andwood andwood wood both of ot which come chiefly from Poland To this the reply that the Poles are alC using Danzig because Gdynia is still sUIl in the time making but that once that most modern harbor in Europe is completed d Danzig might as well wen close up shop Since 1927 1027 they say upon p n which year figures figures' s' s are based there has alrea already 1 been a decline of ot business The rise of ol Gdynia at the head of the Polish corridor has been phe phe- Within ten years ye the former formet for tor- mer met f fishing village has become a city of Night and day a 3 host of or worl workers ers is constructing wharves harves docks loading and unload unload- unloading ing devices cranes railway tr tracks quays and inner and outer basins A prospectus us issued by the Polish government sa says s 's WILL EQUAL DANZIG In If 1929 1029 the time t capacIty capacity capac capac- ity Hy of 01 Gdynia will viiI be bo tons I of ot goods This Is ia the present handling han ban dung capacity of at Danzig which which after atter Copenhagen and Stockholm Is the tho lar largest est port on the Baltic The second series of DC port works worl when finished in n 1931 will make mak tho time handling capacity capacity- of oC Gd Gdynia nia about fifteen million on tons per annum an nn an- an num- num which means that it will be one of ot the tho largest ports in Europe Of ot course this will not be be b by any means means a a final phase in the tWe de development de de- of ot the tho port for tor the natural natural nat nat- ural conditions arc aro so propitious that further expansion is bound to take place The Time citizens of or Danzig point to this prospectus as as evidence e In lh itself of or the time tar flung far plans ot f Poland to throttle Dan Danzig lg The Poles on the theother theother theother other hand reply that there Is ro room m for two ports