STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 600, sig. 109-4347 (damaged)

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73 of the city of M.-Ostrau. It was my responsibility to obtain tickets, to provide the accompanying crew px of the gendarmerie and police and to accompany the consular staff to the station as well as to accommodate them in the train. A bus for the transport of consulate members from the Consulate building to the train station and a truck for the Gepęätransport took care of Mr. Polizeidir.Dr.M e r l e r , who for his part commissioned the Czech Police Councillor B a j g e r with the handling of this matter. I ordered, since there is no longer, 12 compartments 1.Class and l5 compartments 2.Class, i.e. I changed the cschech.Bahnführer in M.Ostrau-Hauptbahnhof, who accepted the order still three times telephonically, that the thing also had to work, before all with regard to the number of places, which was also firmly promised to me. When I came to the consulate at 1pm, neither the bus nor the truck, which were supposed to come before i2am, were there. Both vehicles came only after †1am. Police Councillor Bajger explained this by saying that a sudden breakdown had been to be fixed. Therefore, I am not at fault at this delay. When we came to the rather darkened main railway yard of M.Ostraus, a railway car was called the ordered one by the operator on the platform, in which only 8 places were available instead of the ordered l2 places. I complained very strongly about it and the Poles who had paid for their l2 places l.Class themselves took place against me, as far as they did not find their places ordered, under excited protest words. I made clear fault of the Czech Railway Administration. Two days later, Öberlandrat v.Rumohr occasionally put me in charge of a telephone call after, of course, I had recorded these inconsistencies in the transport of the documents which the Oberlandrat presented to me.