English Translation

14 Note. In recent weeks, the hostile radio in particular of Moscow stations has continuously called on the techechic people to engage in sabotage operations against the Reich, giving detailed instructions for sabotaging acts in all areas, and the state police found that such demands of the Moscow station were followed by the Czech population in various areas of the Protectorate - but so far on a small scale - as evidenced by the listening of the enemy radio from Czech sections of the population. In the last few days, the Czech sheep in particular have been asked to destroy the harvest, not to deliver agricultural products, to hide them, etc. The Steats police took a Phoephorwatte preparation produced in the Protectorate, which is extremely suitable for the ignition of mature cereal fields. On behalf of the Imperial Protector, I have today appointed the Prime Minister Eliáš, the Minister of the Interior Ježek and the Minister for Agriculture Count Bubna-Litic to draw their attention to these facts. I have told the gentlemen that it is necessary to immediately set up a "Czech crop protection aid" in all the agricultural areas of the Protectorate in order to ensure the proper recovery of the harvest. The men of the "harvest protection assistance" are to be recruited from the peasant communities and if necessary possibly. He is the mayor of the town. He is personally responsible for acts of sabotage or acts of resistance - 2 -