JUDGMENT NO. , 12.-UPPER SILESIA (MINORITY SCHOOLS) 13 Volks&und and accordingly the latter announced its intention of appealing under Articles 149 to 157 of the Geneva Convention to the Council of the League of Nations. The Deutscher Volksbund's appeal dated January 15th, 1927, was transmitted on February t th, 1927, through the Polish Government to the Secretary-General for submission to the Council. The Polish Government's observations regarding this appeal were submitted to the Council by a letter dated February 18th, 1927. The Council of the League of Nations considered the question at meetings held on March 5th, 8th, and 12th; one aspect of the question again came before the Council on December 8th, 1927. On March ~ z t h , 1927, the Council adopted a Resolution which amongst other things directed the attention of the Polish Government to "the great importance of not insisting upon the measures taken by its local authorities to exclude from the minority schools the following categories of children for whom applications for admission have been received: "1. Demands guardians, etc., at the enquiry "2. Demands the children to at the time of did not belong for admission invalidated because the parents, did not comply with the invitation to appear held during the summer of 1926. for admission invalidated on the grounds that be admitted, whose mother-tongue was stated the enquiry to be both German and Polish, to the German minority." The Council also considered it inexpedient to admit to minority schools children who spoke only Polish. I t decided to institute a system of enquiry into the concrete cases falling under the categories mentioned in I and 2 above which might appear doubtful to the Polish local school authorities. According to the terms of the Resolution adopted by the Council, "a similar system of enquiry might also be applied in the case of any fresh demands for the admission of children that may subsequently be received from persons legally responsible for their education, .when such cases appear doubtful to the Polish local school authorities. The object of the