On September 25th, 1926, the Deutscher Volksbund fur Polnisch Oberschlesien sent to the Minorities Office a t Katowice a petition based on Articles 149 to 157 of the Geneva Convention. In this petition, the Volksbund sought a declaration t o the effect that the decisions of the Voïvode of Silesia, annulling entries in the school registers on the ground that the children entered did not belong to the linguistic minority, were illegal and also submitted that, until a decision had been given upon this petition, the Voïvode could neither "infiict penalties nor exercise measures of compulsion in respect of either the perçons responsible for the education of children or of the children themselves". In accordance with Article 152 of the Geneva Convention, this petition was transmitted for his opinion to the President of the Mixed Commission with the observations of the Polish Minorities Office. In the Opinion given by him on December 15th, 1926, the President of the Mixed Commission arrived a t the following conclusion l : "1. In view of Articles 75 and 131 of the Geneva Convention, the general administrative enquiry which took place in the summer of 1926 for the hearing of ail parents, guardians, etc., who had entered children for the minority schools was not justified. 2. The following entries for the minority schools were wrongfully rejected : A. Al1 entries of children whose parents, guardians, etc., upon examination, formally expressed the desire to send their children to the German minority school irrespective of whether they stated the mother-tongue to be Polish, German and Polish, or German. B. All entries of children whose parents, etc., upon examination, made no declaration school they desired their children to attend, of whether they stated the mother-tongue to German and Polish, or German. l Text taken from League of Nations Officia1 Journal. guardians, as to the irrespective be Polish,