STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501 Page 276 · 276 of 283
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501
English Translation
- 2 - 245 SENDER BEROMUENSTER /FranZösisch/: /Note: The broadcasts from Beromünster have been almost incomprehensible for a few days, A Russian station uses the same wave and, since the messages are not, as before, passed through via the Swiss shortwave transmitter gagangexxeiné, it is only possible to record fragments of the broadcast. The announcer in Beromünster stated a few days ago /and repeated this statement on the following days/ that the Swiss postal and telegraph directorate had taken steps with the relevant Soviet authorities to put an end to the use of the Swiss wave during the Russian channel, which was contrary to the international agreement. Unfortunately, all such efforts have been unsuccessful and the Swiss postal office will take further steps. Pétain issued a message to the French people today: The new order of France should not mean a decline to the old conditions, but it should not also represent a imitation of avsland experiments. The reorganization of France is a French one, in the first place it is intended to achieve the national unification of France. Cooperation with the overseas meetings is to be deepened. If we also want to concentrate on ourselves, we nevertheless attach importance to maintaining friendly relations with all our neighbours. The new regime is social. The class can only disappear if one eliminates the causes which led to it. Social reorganization, i.e. all the French have not only the right, but also the duty to work. It is the revolution of an old economic appeal, the strikes must stop, the money must be put at the service of the landlord. The new currency system only puts so much gold into circulation that the value of the money is guaranteed. - The French Admiralty announces the overdue absence of a submarine. Minister Morrison announced today in the English House of Commons that the government has provided large sums for the construction of kin new air shelters. These shelters will also be set up in private houses in particular. Two Romanian statesmen /names incomprehensible/ will go to Rome and Berlin to overcome various difficulties that have arisen in the occupation of Transylvania by Hungary. The overview of the day was not easy to understand. The speaker mentioned that the German military is in Romania and described this fact as a great result of the day. From the mutual airstrikes one learns that the London University suffered damage, that on the other hand the RAF has intensified its attacks on German industrial centres and ports in the occupied territories. SENDER LONDON /English/: In the course of yesterday's night and yesterday they attacked and bombed: the Kruppwerke in Essen - two heavy fires arose - the aluminium plants near Cologne, which were occupied by hundreds of explosive bombs and also a factory in Cologne -3 -