THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1827, sig. 109-5/55

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In economic terms, the general mood is dominated by concerns about coal production, as well as increasing rumors about the reduction of food rations, the shortage of salt, etc. II. Individual processes: The OLB Olmütz reports that the German courses for employees of the Bohemian-Mährische Bahnen are very poorly attended. Courses, which are calculated for about 4O participants, are only attended by 5 - 8 persors. A German language course of the NG in the city of Saar (OLB Iglau) bogann in January with 48 Czech participants and had only ll participants in the first week of February. The missing participants should have expressed that they would no longer need the German language, as it will soon be different. From Brno it is established that in Moravia for the follow-up growth in the Czech Lohrerbsruf this year only 55 applications are available, including only 9 of men. In the previous years the average of the applications was about 120, of which only half of the girls. In a coffee house in Klattau, the official Vitek of the district authority (ehem.tschech. officer) dismissed two German protective police officers on the polite question whether all chairs were set, in order not to have to sit with Germans. a table. + The German national Ottokar Dubsky shouted on 7.2. in drunkenness on a street in Brno-Hussowitz repeats in Czech language: "Your German pigs suid us eat out and blackmail us." In Gross-Brünn a German-language flyer, in which a military dictatorship is demanded, is sent through the mail. Hereby as alleged sender häufig the circuit management of the NSDAP is indicated. + In the vicinity of the power plant in Prague, Czech flyers were found these days with the inscription: "All young Czechoslovaks in the united struggle for a free Czechoslovakia. The communist youth of the ÖSR. + In Kremsier (OLB Oimütz) advertising posters, which invited to an event on the day of the German police, were damaged and torn down by Czechs. + In Olmütz the company board of a German dentist, which was previously repeatedly damaged, was now broken out of the wall and stolen. . 2 -