English Translation

- 2 - 15 professor at the University of Pressburg. He held the lucrative post of President of the Slo-Wak Bata Company. Also the presidents of the Hungarian and Croatian Bata companies were present. I took with the representatives of Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia together with the members of the Supervisory Board and the Board of Bata A.G. Minister Hruby was also invited to attend a lunch at Prau Marie Bata. The Wehrmacht was represented by the Armaments Commander of Brno, Colonel O a w a 1 d, the administration by the district captain of Zlin, B l u m e n b e r g. The funeral - as well as the Armor Komman deur and the district captain only participated in the mourning act in the factory yard, which lasted 3/4 hours - ran worthyly and in astonishing order. It was estimated that between 80 - 1,000,000 people were involved, who formed from the Pabrican estate to the cemetery in the forest trellis and had previously moved over to the coffin. The funeral ceremony was coordinated in all the individual areas with District Governor Blumenberg, who enjoys general appreciation in Zlin and seems to have given his office quite skillfully. The auxiliary bishop of Olmitz celebrated. In every respect, the extraordinary popularity of the accident was expressed in the entire estate of the Bata A.G. Dr. Miesbach gave a rather good commemorative speech; Minister a.D. Dr-Čipera paid tribute to the injured in a long, Czech speech by the board and the Bata family.