(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A final decision in the Jewish school question in the Province of Quebec is expected to be rendered by the British Privy Council at the trial which will take place in the presence of representatives of the various Queber communities. The trial will be held in London before the Privy Council next October.
The Protestant Board of School Commissioners of Montreal chose their representative to the trial yesterday. He will proceed to London.
A section of the Jewish community which is not in favor of establishing Jewish schools in the province have also chosen their representative to the trial. The nationalist Jewish group, which is contending for its right to establish separate Jewish schools have not yet selected their delegates.
Quebec has no national school system. As the situation is now, two separate school systems. Catholic and Protestant, are maintained. The Jewish children encounter difficulties in both. In addition, the Jews are not represented on the school commissions and no provisions are made for instruction of religion for Jewish children, except frequent compulsory attendance during Protestant or Catholic religious instruction.
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