English Translation

271 Prague, 28 June 1939.V e r h a n d e l t The Ing. Franz N y k 1. The same explains to the person: I am Franz Ny k 1, born 21.4.19887 in Starnau Bez.Sternberg/lähren, married, Roman cath., resident in Starno Krs.Olmütz, Post Buchonovice, otherwise resident in Pressburg, Lisstgasse No.6. On the matter: I was first involved in the matter of Coburg-Kohary in the year l92l, when the abandonment court in Bratislava ordered me to be the official treasurer of the Coburg Kohary property. I was ordered for the forest side, for buildings and other values other treasurers were active. Since I had been given the mandate to value the bositz for tax purposes, especially because of the inheritance and abandonment, I estimated the forest property to be ca.loo lill.Kc.ge. The real traffic value was vesicularly higher. On condition that the value of the property has nevertheless a doctrinal amount of loo Mill.Kk., I declare: That is not denied. During this sighting, representatives of Prince Philip-Josias of Coburg approached me, I may have become the general director of the property. Ieh took on dicese's office. By the year l925 I blicb that, then I became coercive administrator. Here I had been appointed by the General Financial Directorate Bratislava, as large structural arrears were on, among other things, the preliminary fixed asset levy. It is true that the sommet property on the day of the death of Prince Philipp, 3 July l9rl, was almost completely free of debt. Ieh then remained Zvang's administrator from 1925 to Horbst 1926, after the forced administration was replaced for a very short time by a board of directors Nykl-Nobel-Josifko. It disintegrated because of the Czecho-Anglo contract. It is not true that Razim, in his statement of June 1st, the 1st - as I am told - declared that the directorium had burst, because Josifko "the machinations