Rapporteur to the Council unless the Rapporteur considers it necessary to refer it to the Council." I t appears from the reply of M. Urrutia, the Rapporteur to the Council, that he considered that the system of enquiry instituted by the Resolution of March ~ z t h ,1927, was applicable to the 735 children referred to in the Polish Note of October 18th, 1927. As the Rapporteur pointed out at the Council meeting of December 8th, 1927, this opinion did not prejudge any decision which the Council itself might be called upon to take in regard to the children of the school-year 1927-1928. At the same meeting, the German representative explained &hat the' decision taken by the Council in March, 1927, had been regarded by him as applying solely to the children of the 1926-1927 class. He observed that there was a divergence of opinion amongst the Members of the Council in regard to this point, and held that the time had come finally to clear up the legal questions of principle governing the admission of children to German minority schools. Accordingly, since the dispute was one of a legal nature, he stated that it was now his intention to apply to the Permanent Court of International Justice for an interpretation of the relevant clauses of the Geneva Convention. The Council noted the statement of the German representative with the observation that it was understood that the examinations then proceeding of children belonging to the school-year 1927-1928 would continue. The decision to be given by the Court would determine whether children who, as a consequence of these examinations, might be transferred to the Polish school, should finally be admitted to the minority schools. In his oral address to the Court, the Agent for the German Government also alluded to the report concerning a new petition made by the Deutscher Volksb.und of Polish Upper Silesia, which report was adopted by the Council of the League of Nations on March 7th, 1928.