STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1484, sig. 109-4/1238 (damaged)

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-3 Bohemian-Mährische Bahnen. Stock: 16.5 days. The eligible buyers of the Bohemian and Moravian Railways were reduced by a further 2 % during difficult negotiations, i.e. to 13%. This corresponds to an annual total saving of 14 916 tonnes of hard coal, 47 312 tonnes of lignite 574 tonnes of coke 62 802 tonnes. The requirement of utilities, both gas and electricity, increases to figures which cannot be covered by the quantities and varieties available, on the basis of these figures in the coal year I942/43. The demand for electricity plants for coal year 1942/43, compared with consumption in l940/4l and 1941/42, amounts to: District: V e r b ra u c h: Demand: 1940/41 1941/ 42 1942/ 43 t t ostrau 46 260 125 658 170 896 Karwin 112 285 103 223 164 590 Rossitz 215 601 253 315 269 887 Kladno 23 659 51 643 53 840 Brüx 209 812 308 822 402 026. Thereafter, demand in Ostrava Fohle increases by twice as much in the Dreif&-che and in Brüxer lignite. The requirements of the Prague gas and electricity plants are particularly high. The stockpiling of the PragerGemeinde gas plant amounts to 1 7 days. Ha ug bra nd. The complaints in the house fire sector have subsided due to mild weather. The delivery of the house fire has improved due to the conditions described above. Difficulties that still arise there and there are immediately cleaned up in cooperation with the syndicates. In order to carry out appropriate measurements for the coming year 942/43, in April the districts will be grouped together in different larger towns and given guidelines for the coal year 19942/43.