12.-UPPER 7 Courts before the forty-eighth Session of the Council of the League of Nations, was not declared closed before that date. The written proceedings having been concluded, the case conceniing certain rights of minorities in Upper Silesia (minority schools) was on March ~ z t h ,1928, entered in the list for the thirteenth (extraordinary) Session. In the course of hearings held on March 13th, 15th and 17th, the Court has heard the oral pleadings, reply and rejoinder submitted by Dr. Budding, President of the district of Marienwerder, Agent for the Gennan Government, and M. J. Mrozowski, President of the Supreme Court of Warsaw, Agent for the Polish Government. Finally, the Court has had before it the additional documents enumerated in the Annex attached to this judgment. The submissions of the applicant Government are formulated in the original English version of the Case in the same terms as in the Application. In the Polish Government's Counter-Case the Court is asked : JUDGMENT No. SILESIA (MINORITY SCHOOLS) "to dismiss the German Government's claim ; or, in the alternative, to give judgment to the effect that Articles 69, 74, 106 and 131 of the German-Polish Convention of May 15th, 1922, concerning Upper Silesia establish the freedom of every national to declare, in accordance with his conscience and on his persona1 responsibility, that he does or does not belong to a racial, linguistic or religious minority and also to declare what is the language of a child or pupil for whose education he is legally responsible".