STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1793, sig. 109-5/21

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14 − 3 ui In the night of 4/5.12.40, a large= fire was created in Mischink near Iglau. Several barns, stables and farm buildings burned down. Uninhibited sabotage could be detected. On 10.12., a balloon cover of 3 m diameter and a rubber hose was found in a forest in the OL. district of Kladno. The balloon was made of yellow silk, without sign or inscription. Flyers were not found. At the same time, a balloon of the same kind went down in the OL. district of Pilsen, in front of the BdO.'s staff building and in the garden of the staff building, communist flyers were found on the 1st December 1940. On 23.12.40 an explosive attack was carried out on a pillar of the cable car, which runs between the ironworks VITCowITZ and the Theresienschacht, Schl.-Ostrau. Perpetrator unknown, investigations were carried out by the Gestapo. A SA.-man of the Fernamtswacht Mähr,-Wei3kirchen was struck in the face by a drunken Czech on 24.12.40 with his fist. The perpetrator Johann Krone, Moravian-Weißkirchen and Eduard Vana, who was involved in the attack, was arrested and sent to the Gestapo with six other Czechs who did not comply with the request of the post. For the commander Acknowledged: fvr Mi The chief of the staff : I.V., gez. Engelhaupt. Police master. Distributor RFéuChdDtPol. in RMdI. e.d. Herrn Major d.Sch. Blöcher o.V.i.A. ................ 5 State Secretary 44-Group leader Frank, Prague e.g. Mr. O.R. R. Dr. Gies ...... 1 Pol.-Rgt. Böhmen (m.Abdr.f.d.Btl.) ". 11 Moravian """ ....... 8 6 Amt VuR. (ms.bes.Anschr.) ..... 1 Bdo.-Stab: General/Adj., Chief d.St., Ia, Ib, II, III, V, VI, Nafü, KO, A, Stabsfahrsbereitigkeit, WE 1 .............. 1.4 Message: Under-Secretary of State Dr. v.Burgsdorff, Prague .......... 1 Commander of the Security Police, Prague ............... 1 Stock ... 5 42