English Translation

51 - 3 - In Klein-Schwadéwitz, OLB. Königgrätz, the miners have not received meat or only in insufficient quantity for weeks. The bitterness is great, especially since heavy workers on their allowance cards received nothing. In Iglau, the repeated shortening of meat production caused a great stir, which is to be cut by 50% from next week, so that only 1 000 g of meat and loo g sausage will be distributed per person and week. Especially the workers were very upset about this measure. Pigmeat was only very rarely on the market. It is reported from various towns and villages that some of the butchers there have not been able to distribute pork at all for weeks. Since it is known that the butcher was considered to be part of their quota with slaughter pigs, one does not understand that no pork was available for weeks at all. Beef was also allocated to such a small extent that according to the butchers the quantities due to the individual consumer could not be fully administered. The butchers still overpaid the slaughter animals when purchasing, in order to get them at all and demanded higher prices in the resale even against purchase tickets. These were in many cases readily paid by the customers, because they fear that they will not receive any meat products in the future if they resisted the payment of these prices. As already announced in the last weekly report, the future cattle deliveries also have to be used for migratory animals and dairy cows, which causes great concern among the farmers. In the district of Hrottowitz, even cows which still gave 20 l milk daily should have been taken on 4.9.4l at the cattle delivery. Furthermore, cows which have already been pregnant for 4 months had to be delivered. Among the Czech farmers in Iglau, this has contributed exceptionally to the sharpening of the German-enemy attitude.