English Translation

22 - 4 - Josias in Vienna anxiously avoided allowing a rich German co. effect on the rejection of the inheritance. On the question why the Land Office, the Legal Department, did not protect the rights of the Noterbin on its own initiative, I declare, that was not my business, but the business of the Estate Court in Bratislava. When asked how it actually stands with the pastures of Hodza and the wood theft claimed by the heirs in the measure of 972,000 solid meters of wood, I explain: I know nothing of this affüre from my own experience. I only know what I found in the year I927. I've been doing the research without my boss's order because I'm upset about all this mess. Since I was the administrator of the Coburg property, I felt obliged in this capacity from the point of view of the heirs to these researches.I did this research with the district captains, especially those in Bresno, with the congregations, with officials of the property, with representatives of Prince Philip Josias and with the very wordy wood-processing companies that had taken up the wood. I feel obliged to make this statement, even if I have to put a heavy burden on a number of state bodies of the Czech Government today. I want to serve the truth all the time. I can do this all the more because I have neither participated in these events nor enriched myself with a Czech crown. At the end of l922, the Coburg iron works in Garamtal had to stop their work. The unemployed com- munist population, on the other hand, weighed up the rural peasant population on the Coburg property in the directive, the municipalities would like to find out from the Co-burger Landhorgabe for the purpose of setting up hat pastures for the peasant cattle. For this purpose, only unstocked flat terrains were suitable, according to nature, where a cattle drive had sense, since yes,