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

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English Translation

The main access routes to the front are blocked by the Germans' war material, which has been shot together, and the German losses are constantly increasing. For the first time, the German troops are facing the full visual force of the Allies Air Force. - The German Air Force seems to focus its attacks particularly on the defense points which prevent the German troops from advancing. Parachute troops and air attacks behind the lines seem to have been stopped at the moment. Broadcasting has not issued a warning about German activity in the air yesterday for the first time since the German invasion. - The deutach Plieger continue to take the civil liberties out of the air under Nd-Fcuer, constant reports arrive in Paris, in which the German atrocities are described German bombers over the main street of a city, MG fire, over an other city a better bonbe, in a third city 4 bombs were dropped over the villa quarter, a train with refugees was bombed uew. /In these reports the names of the affected cities are not mentioned/.- Norwegian war report: Further troops of the Allies were landed north of Narvik. The German attempts to make further south landings failed. Several German troop transport ships were sunk. The German armed forces that have reached the coast are surrounded.- Helifax explained yesterday in Oberheus that the new German attack, the determination of the English to support Morwegen, had not affected. Operations near Narvik are continuing and the Allied troops have come further south with the German troops advancing from Hamsoa in touch.- The British Admiralty announces that no Allied or neutral Sohiff was lost last week. England has lost a ship of Gooo t.- Germany, on the other hand, lost 31 ships last week with a tonnage of l7l.000 t. 26 of them were reported in Dutch-India. Three wanted to sink themselves, but which attempt was thwarted. Of the remaining 5 ships, one went to a mine. 2 were sunk by the Norwegians, sines sunk the same and one went into flames suf.- A Norwegian sight of Zooot, which was used by the Germans as a tranaport ship, ran off Narvik on a mine and sank.- The American Foreign Minister Hull made a speech in Washington yesterday evening: The existence of all Kulea peoples is endangered by the lawlessness. Despite their majesty, determination to maintain the Priede is not immune to this danger. - The final order of the Allies in the USA has a total of 348 million dollars. Veber 2 more orders are currently being negotiated. In the last four votes, the Allies have ordered 4ooo military aircraft.- The Belgian King thanked the Pope in a telegram for his message on the occasion of the German invasion.- Manchester Guardian writes on the military situation in Holland and Belgium: Obzvar would be feared for any optimism, there are enough things that speak for the Allians. There is no doubt that the results of the first days in favor of the Allies are falsified. Three things are entecheiding: the goodness of the pilots, the machines and the fuel sources. All these things have the Allians. --