English Translation

The Reichsprotektor 3 a Brag, beu 12. August 1941 III/2Kom-all-Nr906/41 I1,Svehla-Ufer Nr.12 Ministry of Transport No. Telephone No. 61451/502 E8 is requested to indicate the opposite sign and the opposite letter to writeer Sdhrelben. To the Herr Reichsstathalter im Sudetengau - Gauselfeverwaltung - Reichenberg Subject: Establishment of an omnibus line traffic Schlugau-Liboch-Prag. Reference: Request by Mr Reichsstatthalter im Sudetengau, ku- sellvenwalfong) for the approval of a regular service of 24.7.1941, Gz. I e 731/9. In order to promote the establishment of favourable transport links between Schlugau-Böhnisch-Leipa and Prague, Mr fin rh tireit, State Secretary, decided to respond to the request in the form that the BMB should be instructed to establish a fast connection between Liboch-Melnik-Prague and Prague in order to encourage the arrival and departure of bus passengers from the Sudetengau to Prague and back. On the further request to accept the operation of a bus line operated by the Gauselfeverwaltung on the Liboch-Prag route, it is currently not possible, on the basis of fundamental considerations, to enter into force. On the basis of detailed negotiations, Reichsbahn and Reichspost have postponed their wishes to set up their own road transport routes in the Protectorate, because the present time does not seem appropriate to make a change to the uniform management of the means of road transport within the transport area of the BMB achieved in the protectorate under German influence. It is therefore not possible to make an exception in favour of the self-administration of road transport, which, because of the urgency of the matter on 9 August 1994l, has already communicated this decision to Mr Steats Secretary.