English Translation

- 5 - Po2E The present behaviour of Mr. Reichspostminister is now, since President Planze is disappointed in his personal expectations, to nothing more than a supplanting of the German telecommunications system in the Protectorate - and this in the wartime and in a space for which the best possible functioning of the telecommunications sector is vital. This behaviour is sabotage, which weighs even more heavily, as it is determined by personal, unilaterally resorted facial points. In order to remedy the emergency situation provocative by the Reichspostminister and to safeguard the vital interests of the Reich in Bohemia and Moravia, I have ordered the following emergency measures: 1.The officials expressly designated by the Imperial Postminister as belonging to the staff of the President Flanze: Ober- postrat Dr. Hartwig, Oberpostrat Paula and Postrat Reitin- ger have to comply with the reordering by the Mr. nister. 2.The delegation to Berlin the president of the Reichsprotektor Dr. Müller is not sent through the head of the telecommunications system and at the same time Vert send group leader, Ministerialrat Dr. The Reichsprotektor of the Oberpostrat Gottfried Müller remains. 3.In place. of the returned tele- call- ing-technical officers of the Deutsche Reichspost, three technical police officers temporarily assigned by the Hauptamt der Ordnungspolizei.