THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213

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So1 - 18 - One has tried to cover this transfer later by transferring in the dohoda of 24 March 1928 also all securities etc., without specification, to the property of the ground office. I took my head when reading this takeover dohododa, where is actually the attachment to this contract, which should have filled an entire book. One can imagine that in Bausch and Bogen the inventories, securities, claims etc. were taken over in a possession of the enormous extent of Coburgschen. Only the living and dead inventory, which was not subject to the soil reform at all, represented a value of at least 40 million.This figure is absolutely reliable. I estimate the reserves on 15 million Kc. alone, the field railway on 3 y2 million KC., the 'sawmills on 12 million kc., not to mention the inventories of castles, law firms, railway operations, etc. It is hard to believe that the Coburgers can take away the entire property at the price of 35 million by expropriation, if only the mobile assets, which were not subject to the soil reform, amounted to more than 40 million Kc. The supplement of Dr. Kyjovski, Brno, who has just bought something in which he has no rights, points out that it is a purely politically blackmailed business in which, on the one hand, the Coburgers were given an asset levy of lo4 million, and on the other hand, an expropriation price of 35 million ke. I can only say, as a Czech, at the best Czech feeling, that the Treaty of 24 March 1928, which was squeezed out by the Coburgers, was an imposed robbery, which the officials of the Land Office have achieved with the means of fraud, to make Coburger, with totally unjustified taxes and capital contributions, the debtors of the State, in order to make them, on the other hand, a fortune of millions of dollars. The Land Office knew very well that Razim,Novak and Vozenilek, that the wealth tax would never be a surplus.