Al1 disputes regarding the execution and interpretation of this convention shall be settled in conformity with the provisions of this convention." The Treaty concluded on June 28th, 1919, between the United States of Arnerica, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, on the one part, and Poland, on the other part, is the Treaty of Minorities hereinafter quoted. The Gennan-Polish Convention regarding Upper Silesia, negotiated in accordance with the Decision of the Conference of Arnbassadors, was signed at Geneva on May 15th, 1922. The articles of this Convention which are of some importance in connection with the present case are reproduced in the Annex. * * * The dispute brought before the Court by the Application filed on January znd, 1928, by the Gennan Government arises out of the application in practice of the provisions of the Geneva Convention concerning the protection of minorities. The history of this dispute is as follows, according to the reports adopted by the Council of the League of Nations, which have been corroborated by the statements of the Parties : During the year 1926, the Polish authorities ordered an administrative enquiry to be held in order to establish the authenticity of applications for admission to the minority schools and to ascertain whether such applications emanated from perçons authorized to submit them, as also to verify the existence of the circumstances contemplated in Articles 106 and 131 of the Geneva Convention in regard to the children in respect of whom the applications had been made. As a result of the investigations, 7,114 entries of children in the registers of the minority schools were on various grounds declared nul1 and void by the authorities, and at the beginning of the school-year 1926-1927 al1 pupils whose names had been struck off were excluded from attendance. In many cases police summonses were issued against parents who refused to send their children to school. A number of parents were condemned to pay fines for not complying with the law concerning compulsory attendance at school.