English Translation

A 12 to the coal mines of the Aachen district. It is therefore now driven efficiently to get as much coal from the district as possible. Anyone who wants can, except for the normal 6 shifts, afford 4 more shifts per week! The wages with which the buddies go home there are now up to 105 Marks. But the workers themselves say that they can't take that long. The reports of the sick are very numerous, in one shaft there were 138 cases in June, but in July there were already 219. But it is not possible to speak of a conscious sabotage. In addition, the control is far too sharp. Every worker has also been promised a reward of 50 marks, if he reports sabotage file with certainty. Furthermore, it is assured that the denunciant is not called. Northwest Germany: Since the beginning of August, every day in Emden the outbreak of the war was expected. This had its cause in the fier- ous work on the last unfinished military work in the port and at the coastal fortification in the Ems estuary. Schools were converted into hospitals. Women received the notice that they had to stand ready for factory service. Their children come to a community hoard. 3) The situation in the West Despite these early measures, the preparations for the civil population in the west were by no means complete when the war broke out. In particular, the evacuation of the civilian population in Rhineland was carried out at a relatively late and unobtrusive pace. October also issued on the Berlin station "Search reports", in which certain persons from the evacuated counters are asked to provide their current address. Except for almost all places in the Saar area, people who lived in Pirmasens were also wanted on 10 October. Even an entire company, which now has its headquarters in a Frankfurt hotel, had its workers informed in this way that they could report there.