STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1865, sig. 109-5/93

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36 -2 - I would therefore like to express my warm thanks if the Ministry of Finance of the Protectorate could have a clear opinion. Fortunately, the question of the financing of civil air protection is now maturing towards a solution. We have just been informed by the Prague police president that we can demand an advance on the amount of money that we are finally entitled to from the government. We then called 18,000,000.- K. A pleasant clarification on many issues of urban planning brought about an interview with the state councillor Niemeyer on 4th/l2. The memorandum he presented about the water supply in Berlin and Prague's general building inspector Speer is held in such a way that we are still largely taken into account for our Prague water wishes. I don't think that Berlin will put too much emphasis on the supply of mountain drinking water from the Bohemian chalk area in view of the technical difficulties and the size of the drainage nowgall, so that our long-established Jizera project can be carried out without difficulty. However, I never doubted the fact that the drinking water supply in Prague has to be significantly improved, since it is impossible to find whole large districts and two other cities. above all the German-determined like Holleschowitz, Bubentsch and Dewitz to continue to supply with filtered Moldovan water, which is especially in the summer time almost inaccessible. No one would realize that Prague remains without usable drinking water, although it