English Translation

19 8 - The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia, Sär e, and his close staff were arrested. In the Dorpat district, a number of terrorist groups were already emancipated at an early stage, thus preventing planned acts of sabotage. One of the prisoners was in possession of 1 kg of cyanide and arsenic for the poisoning of wells. Belo-Ruthenia The communist decomposition work in Weiß ruthenia is increasing. The former communist functionaries of the party and the state service had withdrawn from the towns and villages as the German troops marched in. They now return and find employment in German-speaking enterprises. There they try to form communist cells, which are the starting point for intensified anti-German propaganda. Several such cell formations were found in the important military power plant Minsk, the news and equipment factory, the leather factory and the fruit trading company in Minsk. Planned decomposition work is to achieve work stoppages of a larger scale. Communist officials have managed to find entry as investigating magistrates in the Belarusian order service. Three investigating magists have already been arrested in Minsk. Recently, the communist resistance movement is trying to make preparations for a new insurrection instead of the creation of large organizations by so-called groups of ten, after the uprising planned for January 4, 1942 in the Soviet war hospitals and prison camps failed.