STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1789, sig. 109-5/17

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- 5 - 323 Lithuanian Germans on 18.3.4l in the camp Konitz was in the Reichsgau Gdańsk-West Prussia also the Rickführung of the Lithuania-Germans ended. In all units of the police order was operated in addition to the normal order service winter training of the Pol.-Wachtmeister, which was completed with visits. In the course of a major action against a fugitive breakout in Schwetz district on 25.3.4l, this was placed with his accomplice by the gendarmerie in a field barn. In the evolving firefight one criminal was shot and the other shot and held. In Karthaus district, on 14.4. In the morning a radio operator of two men who had remained unknown was fired. During a raid on Schleichhandler 84 kg of meat, l8 kg of butter and lo2o eggs were confiscated in Karthaus and the perpetrators were reported. On the occasion of the large fire at the main army catering office in Elbing on 6.4.4l, in which 3 large warehouse buildings were completely destroyed with fut- terns, protective police, fire protection police, factory fire brigade and Wehrmacht were used. Of the 2 members of the fire protection department seriously injured in the fire fighting, 1 Pol.-Wachtm.d.FSchP. was killed. On the night of the 2./3.4.4l, the Gend.-Hauptwachtm. Jess, Gend,-Posten Seefeld/Karthaus district, was injured by a shot by unknown perpetrators. As a retaliation measure, the secret state police set 5o Poles from the circle of the crime scene as hostages. This year's flood of the Vistula caused no danger in the ( Gauge area. Some ice transfers in the current bed below Thorns were blown up by the technical emergency aid. In three days of operation, a blasting force of the Technical Emergency Aid succeeded in obtaining a pumping plant of the Reichsbahn at Lake Müskendorf near Konitz, which was endangered by strong ice formations, by appropriate blasting of the pressing ice masses. Losses,