English Translation

This randomly recorded case is likely to result in a large number of similar cases which are not yet known. For example, Mrs B á r a , whose husband was former head of the Fatra plants in Na-pajedl, was in France to set up a factory for the production of gas masks in V e r n o n, with a passport indicating the destination Yugoslavia: the wife of the director of the Egyptian Bata Society in Ale xandria, Heinrich B a t a  , also intended to go to Egypt, stating the destination of Yugoslavia. The Bata companies abroad are numerous. On the one hand, they are factories, on the other hand, sales branches and engros shops. a) Slovakia. Bata plants in Batizovce are a herd of anti-German incitements of the Czechs and anti-german Slovaks in Slovakia. Almost all branches, which are very numerous in Slovakia, are collectible points of anti‐German circles. (b) In Romania there is a Bata factory under the name R o m c a r in Buscani near Bucharest. The representative of the company "Kotva" (Bata A.G.Zlin) for Romania is Ing.La dislav K o h l ik , Bucharest,Strada Bursei l. He is at the same time a correspondent of the Prague export institute and acts in an anti-rich sense within the Czech colony in Bucharest. It is precisely here that the Bata enterprises, which are very numerous and strongly developed here, constitute dangerous herds of anti-German agitation and direct anti-rich activity. A large factory is located in B o r o v o near Vukovar, and Bata has over 500 branches.The company "Fatra" from Napajedl, which is affiliated with the Bata Group, is building a sister factory in Belgrade. Between this and the Czech emigration, there are frequent contacts.