English Translation

The last Czechs to get out of their businesses and to prevent Czech instructors from receiving the Slovak entry permit from Zlin. A significant part of the officials and employees of Šimonovany fled from the partisans and people slowly return from their hiding places to their operations. On the other hand, it is known from the manager Trojan that he has gone to the partisans. Of other people in Šimonovany nothing is known of a overflow. In Slovakia there is at present an extraordinary incitement against the Czechs, so that it is hardly possible for the Tsdechen to stay there. These difficulties extend to those Czechs who have become Slovaks in recent years. 2/ The leader of the guerrillas who have come to Šimonovany is a man who belonged to Bata until the year l934 and was dismissed in early l935 by the company enågiltig. He bears in his file the note "without business interest and unreliable". This man is called the Bata man there and perhaps it is due to this man that the name Bata is drawn in a close connection with the partisans. 3 h Slovak MP, who escaped from the Partisan area to Pressburg, had the President Dr. 4/ The incitement against all Czechs goes to the point where plans -preche to take over the Slovak Bata works in state ownership of the one state commissioner appointed. On my return from Slovakia, I will be able to report more. H IIt+THtT Ino