STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1887, sig. 109-5/115 (damaged)

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es0ef 106 Subject: Unusual withdrawals of deposits in the political district of P i br a n s. On 23 June, at around 5.00 a.m., the rumor spread in Pibrans that the city had to be immediately cleared in the course of the expansion of the troop site on the Kammweld. The excitement was alleged to be very great and it is said to be due to a proclamation that was posted at the mayoral offices, etc. According to confidential communications, it is probably a sabotage act, since in the original of the announcement the municipality or. the district of Pibrans was not mentioned at all, but subsequently appeared in the announcement omitted from the local authorities.. During the morning of the 24.6., in particular with the larger financial institutions there were strong extraordinary withdrawals of sperm deposits, which are likely to amount to several million after so far possible sighting. On the basis of a consultation with Reichsbankdirektor Dr. M ü 1 1 e r, I have instructed the money institutions in the judicial districts of Pibran and Doberschisch to make the desired payments to those depositors who demand the return of funds. Until the week of service, I will have precise reports of the lifespans in the period from the 21st to the 26th June. the individual institutions have been carried out, so that then a precise overview of the case and its consequences emerges. According to me received messages on the 24th of June by the local speakers of Pibrans was announced that there was nothing true about the rumor of the evacuation of Pibrans. As I was informed on this occasion, this notification has reassured a more salutary part of the population, but it is said that