STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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9.1 4 and the local policeman (legionary) in a mocking way, that they were not there to keep his apartment ready for him, if he works in the rich. In the camp Luhatschowitz (OLB Zlin) of the Reichskinderland dispatch eight children have become ill with scarlet. The number of people with typhoid disease in Zlin has increased to 80 in the last days, so far there are three deaths. Also in Mauth and the surrounding area (OLB Pilsen) there have been typhoid diseases recently (so far seven cases). In Brno Czech workers from the Old Reich spread rumors during their Christmas holidays about destruction in Berlin, mass deaths of the Czechs in the Reich, etc. Among the population of Brno there are rumours that at present gardens are fertilized with eggs that are spoiled at the egg distribution points. Recently, there has been a strong shortage of flour and bread in Brno. In Wischau (OLB Brno), forgeries of receipts were discovered by food traders who sold the goods thus procured at usury prices in the retail trade. 15 arrests have so far been carried out by the German criminal police. Among the Czech meat organs in Pilsen, the high punishment of individual meat organs for illegal handling is referred to as injustice, because it had let its association know that it is making sure that an eye is pressed and that price or constant control does not take place. In addition, it is contested that only smaller firms are affected.