STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 440, sig. 109-4/185 (damaged)

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In the early morning hours, a postponement of the start of the business was carried out with the consent of the competent authorities. This measure has proven to be brilliant. The peak load at the E-Werke has stopped, so that today, if force majeure does not occur, the guarantee can be given that the energy supply will run smoothly during the winter. This is all the more gratifying because it is likely that various difficulties can be expected in the supply of domestic coal to the population, as deliveries to coal for Prague have been far below the planned levels.From the city we continue to try to eliminate from the outset by means of interventions, especially in the case of large-scale disturbances. In addition, the war economy runs in the predetermined paths. In the price and pledge section of the city a new control department has been established, which has been assigned by the protectorates a greater number of control bodies, which certainly do not always prove to be suitable for the cause. In order to ensure a faster course of business in the criminal department, new qualified forces /lawyers/ have been deployed. A raid, which was carried out in early November against the slippery supply to Prague, resulted in the result that their scope has probably decreased considerably, but that there are still people who deal with this activity. I cannot hide the fact that complaints about care are increasing among the circles of the German population in Prague - I consider the problem of care for the Prague Germans to be an extremely urgent one and have therefore negotiated it several times in my circle of employees. If this question is really to be solved satisfactorily, then it will have to be based on the basic requirement that the Prague German language does not have a German rural hinterland in contrast to all other parts of the German national territory, especially in contrast with the Sudetenland. But it is now open to the public that it is precisely for this reason that a plethora of possibilities for obtaining additional 5688 gicht-managed food are kept from the Prague Germanism.The situation that this creates for the Prague Germans is all the more unbearable since the Czechs are in an infinitely more favourable position in this respect. The Czechs of Prague have a closed large rural hinterland, with which they have a thousand times sipped, so that there are also thousands of ways for an additional supply of the large city population. Because