English Translation

159 German voices from December 6, 1939, editor Ing.Karmasin, site of publication Slovakia. "Secret service" among us! The work of the English secret service in Slovakia. Closed defense front of the Slovak and German people. Since the curseful assassination in Munich, an organization has repeatedly been called an organization which, with the network of its agents and helpers, covers all of Europe, indeed the whole world, and can be described as a true geist of the whole non-English world; the "Secret Service", We have already reported on this organization in detail in our paper. Our readers know that the headquarters is located in the London Downingstreet, that they have enormous funds available for their work and that they are sitting a whole host of spies, agents, saboteurs and provocateurs in all over the world. Our readers are also aware of the nature of the activities of this organization. It is well known that the assassination of King Carol of Romania in l9l4, the German Field Marshal of Eichhorn in l97l9, the Romanian Minister = President Calinescu in l99l9 and finally the assassination in the Bürgerbräukeller was organized by her, but it is also known that a number of revolutions and uprisings, including the Matro- senaufstand in Kiel at the end of the World War are to be put on the account of the "Secret service". However, the activities of the English secret service in our country are probably less well known. Par e s , B ar t o n u. Co. It is natural that the interest for Slovakia only grew when it gained its independence. But also in the old Czechoslovakia the English intelligence service worked here. During the October crisis l938 a consul named P a r e s arrived from Moravian Ostrau in Pressburg. In reality he was much less concerned with diplomacy than with recruiting agents and assistants for the "Secret Service".He had light Arbdit, because years before another had prepared the ground for him. A few years after the war, a strange ship had appeared on the Danube near Pressburg. It did not look like the other Danube ships at all and as one learned later, it was none. It was in the possession of the English captain B a r t o n, who had brought it to Pressburg to build a ship's coffee. In reality, Mr. B a r t o n was of course never the real "cafetier" but he was going to set up a headquarters of the English secret service for the south-east here in Pressburg on his ship café Boon.He could not have done this any more safely, because - 2 -