STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393

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Strictly confidential! Division IV- Broadcasting Only for personal broadcasting use of service! To be destroyed on your own responsibility! (353 c RSTGB). Test. No. 289/II /42. Reports of 18.0 October 1942. L o n d o n - (Czech) 1.30 p.m. ESEEES Eastern Front: The defenders of Stalingrad offer the most incorruptible resistance. In the Caucasus there is up to 10 cm of snow. Local fighting activity at Kalinin. Western front: Last night the RAF carried out a powerful attack on the Schneider Creusot plants in the city of Creusoth, about 270 km southeast of Paris. Mediterranean front: Enemy air activity over Malta. The camp break of ground troops in Egypt continues. Far East: The Battle of the Solomon Islands continues successfully for the Allies. On New Guinea further progress of the UsA troops in the Stanlay Mountains. American troops and aircraft have landed in the Negro Republic of Liberia, an independent state on the west coast of Africa. As a result of the growing resistance of the population in France (in the text it is easy to understand).Weekly overview in Slovak language: (Churchillrede in Edinburg, visit Smuts in London, air attacks of the RAF, "successful attacks" of the Americans in the sea area around the Solomon Islands and "sophisticated attacks" by the Axis Air Force on Malta, "hero-ish defense of Stalingrad. Construction of the second front in "not far away time") 12T 15 minutes talks with the homeland. The introductory sentence due to severe disturbances incomprehensible: "... Dr. Hubert Ripka first dealt with the historical significance of Czechoslovakia in the European area. He referred to the Munich agreement, which forced Czechoslovakia to break its friendly relations with the Western powers. Beneschs neie in Great Britain itself, which would have led to the declaration of invalidity of the Munich Agreement by Great Britain, to which the Soviet government and the French National Committee had also announced that they would recognize the Vormünchner Grenzen.- In the following, Dr. Mr Ripka with the problem of the Germans in Czechoslovakia and the other minority who live there.