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5. K sermon is heard, also religious instruction is given to our children in Polish language. Masurovka page l2: 62 Catholic Germans. Page l6: Furthermore, in the 37 settlements, with the polo-nized schools, there is a need to speak German again in the largest of these communities, namely in Lubsza-Mazurovska/35/ schools. Page 26: Seven kilometres east of Wola Oblaznica lies the Ruthenian village of Mazuroka, where l3 German clans live.Instead of further information about this community,we sent a letter to the Federal Administration in l908.The letter reads:"Most precious lord. According to your wishes, we will inform you of the number of our poor Germans in Mazurovka/follow the information/.The school and the church are Polish. If we want to hear a German sermon, we have to go to the village of Machliniec, which is only 2 kilometres away, where German is preached.And yet we like to go there from the heart; but when we return, we feel so sad because we don't have a German service.As far as the school is concerned, our children learn their beautiful mother tongue, while they do not learn well Polish or Russian.Some of us wanted their children to be taught German by a home teacher and we would have liked to have paid him the required 4 crowns per month for a child, but the good man/a Pole/Konnte himself not German Pöchersdorf. Page 12: 240 kat holische Deutsc erase Page l5 Thus the state of the school system in the German-Catholic settlements was at the end of l9o7,when the Confederation of Czech Germans was founded,and the Dei csche Schulverein was made aware of the predicament of this school system.