STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1858, sig. 109-5/86 Page 45 · 45 of 61
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1858, sig. 109-5/86
English Translation
42 - 2C - with other enterprises, banks and cooperatives intertwined and financially linked. Iie Koloni- sationgesellschaft with its sub-organisations continues to possess considerable land. It must therefore be seen as an urgent requirement from the point of view of German politics to bring these societies and comrades under German control and influence. I will at any rate make every effort to clarify these matters. Another economic problem that my S department has been working on lately is the trade in seismic and chain goods, which the Czechs believe to be able to do even under the eyes of the rich German authorities without regard or inhibition. As the head of the Brno price monitoring centre, Brandtner, the government council member, shared with me, first conducted detailed surveys of the chain trade in live cattle and meat in the area of the Cberlandrat district of Moravian Cstrau by a special command. The investigations have not yet been completed, but have already led to a very excellent result. At a number of stations in the Moravian Ostrava region, a total of l6 l cars were secured with Vikh, which was loaded from Bohemia. This cattle was not fed to the regular market, but was partly already slaughtered black and the meat was sold to the fishermen, in part it was still sold to various farmers.