English Translation

- 3 - 20 many matters could not be done without the help of a dolmet- scher (speakable driver). In the local shops one is almost always accommodatingly served. In Kolin, however, this should not always be the case. On the occasion of the march of the Hitler youth through Königsgrätz there was unfortunately an unnecessary annoyance of the population. The leader of the unit declared at the reception on the market place, among other things, that this country had always been German and would always remain German. While a whole number of Czechs had appeared at this reception, the following day a place concert of the local German protection plizei by the Czech population showed up almost no one. There have been no strikes or other-wide riots. In particular, despite the survey, it could not be said that the fixing of maximum wages, which were previously unknown here, but which have now been introduced for the construction industry and agriculture, would have caused difficulties. In the Landratsbezirk Trautenau it is about 600 men. The compensation allowance, which is to be paid by the rich German side to the workers working in the Protectorate and to make up about 1/3 of the rich Germany's wage, must be justified against the local workers with the higher cost of living in the old kingdom. A certain degree of opposition to the Czech workers will be caused by the compensatory allowance, and any compensatory allowance - regardless of the form and by whom it is paid - will be paid. It is necessary, however, to employ the German frontier workers in the Protectorate, since in the - 4 -