STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31

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- 46 - they are also promoted, as already indicated, by various banks, such as the already mentioned "Anglo and Prague Credit Bank", as well as the "Banka Slavia", located in Belgrade, which is the appropriate instrument especially for the company "Sigmund-Pumpen" and its illegal activity. Ing. V o d s t r č i 1, representative of the Bohemian Arms Works for Yugoslavia, is in close contact with the "Bank Slavia" in its Belgrade office. It has good relations with Yugoslav military circles (the "Slavia Bank" should be noted that it already engaged its representatives in Yugoslavia in the Czech "Maffia" during the World War. In Agram there is an important Czech emigration center, which is under the direct direction of Professor Dr. S. m e t á n ka, and is particularly concerned with transit traffic to the Czech Legion. A collection point of the anti-rich elements is the " Czech House " in Agram, Šubičeva 20. A centre of anti-rich Czech activity is the "Czechoslovak Association for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia", which has its headquarters in Agram under the direction of Dr. Sm e t a n k a's. Two officials of the association, Bohuš K o b r l e and the secretary V e s e l y, have unusually large funds available to the illegal Czech organization. Prof. As already mentioned in "Hungary", Sm e t á n k a is connected with the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest; as couriers V e s e l y and Dr. T i s s y. Dr. Smetanka, who is in contact with the Czech National Committee in Paris by couriers, attended meetings there in March d.o. for about a few days. With the preparation of transports to the Czech Republic. Legion was occupied in Agram by a certain J a r e š, cousin of Zdéněk J a R o š and Damp. saw owners in Hungarian Hradisch (protectorate of Moravia). 47 -