STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501 Page 293 · 293 of 283
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501
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-2 - 292 also householding with heavy goods. In order to get along with the shrunken goods, we all have to set ourselves up for a simple lifestyle.- These days, the card issue for fats has begun, as the supply is now limited. Especially the need for food fats had to be regulated. After the Butte products in Sweden have been set up for export, it has been decided to cover the demand for fats with butter. Margarine consumption must be reduced as production depends on imported raw materials. It has been agreed to reduce the butter price for economically weaker circles, children and old people. The consumption of soap, lubricating soap and other detergents containing fats has also been regulated.- SENDER PARIS (French): Franz. Heerebericht: In Belgium, we carried out our march and our movements on schedule north of the Maas, twice the enemy attacked our general front and was rejected under heavy losses of tanks. Before Namur, the Germans tried to cross the Maas in different places. We went on to counterattack. The fight continued, especially before Sedan, where the torment made enormous efforts despite heavy losses. South of the Moselle, the enemy attacked, who were rejected under enormous losses for the enemy. On May 3rd and May 4th, our air force carried out numerous exploration flights. In addition, numerous bomb flights were carried out on important strategic points and enemy columns. In the verluaf of the air battles, enemy machines were shot down over our area l5. In Norway, successful operations were carried out at Narvik.- The British Ministry of War announces that Allied forces were landed in 12 countries north of Narvik, and the landing was successful, with only a few injured. The landing in the back of the German armed forces, while at the same time the Allied forces successfully attacked the German positions. Enemy units that had gone ashore were successfully shot at by a British warship. The enemy suffered heavy losses.- The Sehweizer Bundesrat announces that the examination of the bomb fragments, which came from the bombs, which fell a few days ago on Swiss territory, has proven German origin. The Swiss envoy in Berlin was commissioned to protest with the Reich government and to reserve claims for damages.- Berne: The Germans withdraw troops from the Norwegian front to throw them on the western front.-Bern: To the German declaration that the Allies bombed the city of Ereiburg in Breisgau, the Baseler Nachrichten write: In truth, the Allied air forces attacked a German transport of motorized units and destroyed them completely. - Many German troop units reached the Maas line yesterday, where violent camofs are in progress. Along the French positions a huge battle is underway. The center lies at Sedan. Liège resists the German attacks ki so far successfully. This forms a wedge that cuts deep into the German front. German forces have suffered a terrible defeat. The heavy German losses show the high quality of the French material. On the whole front, the French army has deployed great forces. Everything suggests that there will be a great battle east of Brussels. In Holland, the Germans have landed even more troops in the section of the Hague and are advancing to Rotterdam on both sides of the Rhine. They exert a strong pressure on the Dutch. It is not yet known whether these German troops have succeeded in joining with Rotterdam. In the air bomb flights were carried out on both sides as far as the combat zone. The Allies have with gkil greatest success enemy troops and ways -C-