STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 709, sig. 109-4458 (damaged)

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- 5 - The possibility that the sub-object 1 (drying bearing for banging mercury and lead acid) first went up and the intermediate camps followed as a result of this explosion is not accepted due to the present statements and benign manifestations. In agreement with witnesses, it is claimed that the schwere, long and dull explosion strike (typically in explosive capsule explosions) took place first and followed the somewhat shorter and bright explosion (typical for cracking mercury explosions), about a second apart from the killed camp manager H o v o r k a, three injured workers. The material damage is estimated to be 150,000 Reichsmark. The production failure for detonators and detonation hats will last about 6 weeks. The failure is about 26.5 million pieces of detonating hats of different types, 1 Miliion piece of decontonation caps for the OKH., 1/2 to 3 million pieces mining detonator caps, 80.oo meters of fire ignition cord for export. The extremely large volume of didser explosion - it is the largest explosion that the plant has experienced since its existence - can be prevented in Zukun by the fact that the storage, in this