English Translation

The Czechs travelling between Zlin and the Bata companies abroad often serve as couriers in matters which are not at all of a Community nature. Thus it was found that, among other things, a certain Josef F a - c e_k, employee of the Bata works in Zlin, travels between there and Boro- vo.In the course of a conversation, he himself admitted that the foreign journeys of Bata employees are not always purely business-like, but often serve very different, higher goals. As one of the most important persons, the head of the press office of the Bata enterprises in Borovo, Z i f k o v i ć, formerly Yugoslav press attaché in Prague, also M a k - s i m o vi ć appears in Borovo. In addition, a Croat of Czech origin called H o l z m a n n, head of a Bata branch in Agram in an anti-German sense, helps Czechs to acquire the Yugoslav state citizenship in order to enable them to exercise a hostile activity without risk of expulsion. d) Bata enterprises in Italy. The representative of the Bata plants in Italy and head of the Italian territory is Ing. Mario R o c c o. In Italy the BATA companies work under the name SICIA, the main shareholder is the Jude D e u t s ch, Director Ing Rocco, and the representative of Zliner interests of the Jud Rudolf W u r m, head of Bata branch in Milan. Ing Mario R o c c o is the brother of the Italian minister R o C c o , but is not supposed to be in any particular good relationship with him.His wife is said to be a Jewish departure.He is from the time when General K 1 e c a n - da_ Czechoslovak military attaché was in Rome, with this good friend. Ing. Rocco is in direct contact with the centre of Czech foreign activity in Italy and, as he often visits the Bata plants in Zlin, he finds use as a courier for the transmission of particularly important and secret messages, since it is based on the self-understood premise that he, as an Italian and brother of the Minister of Germany, has no difficulty to fear. - 23 -