CITY IN TWO REPUBLICS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 80, 28 December 1921, Page 9

CITY IN TWO REPUBLICS

Barbers in one half of the city of Teschen are at present feeling very unhappy (says the Vienna correspondent of tho "Daily Chronicle”). When Teschen was dealt with by the Great Powers, the River Olsa, dividing the town into two halves, was fixed as the frontier line between the neighbouring republics of Poland and Czccho-S’ovakia. On account of tho, devaluation of tho Polish, mark, shaving has become cheaper in the Polish 'section of Teschen than in the Czecho-Slovakian part. Large crowds of men consequently flock over the bridges from Czecho-Slovakia to Poland for /a. cheap shave. Barbers in Czecho-Slovakian Teschen have, as a result, asked their Government to arrange that whenever a pefinit is issued to a male to cross over to Poland the passport may contain a special annotation stating whethen the holder is shaved,or unshaved. Another consequence of this allotment of one city to two States is that tho cemetery became Czecho-Slovakian territory. When a person residing in the Polish section of Teschen dies, the relatives accordingly have to obtain an "import permit” from the Czecho-Slovakian Government, as otherwise the burial cannot take place.