STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050

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addo icedt terear 59a AoW Td'T the binding of these institutions to the city should become closer rather than looser. In the municipal works the reorganization work in the sense of the uniform summary of the three special components continues to progress to a life-full organism, whereby still the WIBERA stands at the advisory side. During the last two months, the focus has been on the unification and consolidation of the accounting and cash system, which is to start from l./l. rovl943 in the new paths. The workshop managers' meetings prove to be quite fruitful, even if enough misunderstandings had to be cleared up in the beginning. The connection to the city guidance is sufficiently maintained, so that a special 6 development of the municipal utilities seems excluded. A wide area. The preparatory work for the electricity saving and gas quota took place. The city of Prague today, as everywhere calls for electricity and energy saving are admonished, is pleased to point out that, on the basis of the experience of the past winter, it has been working since spring on measures that are supposed to create safe conditions in this winter. As a result, the lengthy preliminary consultations with all the relevant bodies could be completed in September and the first measures for large enterprises were already taken in mid-October. In all this, the principle was that households should not be restricted, so that, except for the collection of electric heaters, there were no restrictions on the energy consumption of private households. The gas quota for private households, which is used with the 2nd / ll., runs smoothly, as far as things can be overlooked today. The fact that the city of Prague has been exemplary in many ways is demonstrated by the calls from their major cities of the Reich, who want to take similar measures with themselves. It should not be concealed that the exceptionally mild autumn weather allowed a much more favourable start from the outset than in the past years, in which already in October a large part of the coal reserves had been used up and accordingly also strong electricity and energy consumption units 9TG edoeit entered.gfe With the tramways there was still a huge rush, which should now be controlled something by creating a transport police equipped with sufficient authority 53289