THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43

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267 A Ba Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for personal radio and light service use! ii To destroy on its own responsibility! H Verification. - No. /§ 353c RStGB/ 9. $.e.d. B e r i c h t e of 6 January 1994l. $_.^1.4. SENDER LONDON /Czech/: News agencies report from Greece that the Italians in the coastal section have made a violent counterattack with tanks, supported by the air force and fleet. However, the Italian were thrown back by the Greeks with great losses. Also in the middle front section the fierce fights are continued. Air Force nat Elbasan attacked again. The British Air Marshal ? left yesterday in a special mission to Washington. He will hold meetings with finance minister Morgentau. The commissioner Roosevelts at the British government Hobkins had Sunday meetings with Hell and other high officials. So far, his mission has not been known. It is assumed that he will remain in England for 1 4 days, possibly even longer. N.Y. Times: The American industry is tense as never before. The steel industry has reached 96% of its highest capacity so far. The new American. Botscharter arrived in Vichy yesterday. The Japanese war minister declared in a message of the Auxiliary Power that Japan had mailed soldiers, but an early victory was not likely. Large sacrifices and achievements will still be demanded by the people. The year 194l will be the hardest year in Japa's history. From the Sudetenland, news about the dissatisfaction of the local population will always come to pass. Workers and workers are deported to Germany for forced labour. Unmarried girls aged 1-7 years and over must go to work in the Reich. Many of the girls marry, and escape this dispatch, if you come to the conclusion that a girl only married in order to have to go to work nifty to Germany, the girl and his parents are thrown into prison without right to object. The industrialists in Sudetenland declare that Hitler's speech to the industrial workers has made them even more repulsive. German and Czech workers use excerpts from this speech in their underground activities against employers.Reichsdeutsche from the threatened areas in the Rhineland Ruhr area... are brought to the Sudetenland. They are accommodated in hotels and villas.In Teplitz alone are 7o.ooo such refugees. The majority of the costs of housing and feeding these refugees must be borne by the local population, and the Sudeten Germans, of course, do not stop behind the mountain with their rage.