STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1858, sig. 109-5/86

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43 - 21 - Peasants in the surrounding area, to be moved in a similar way later on. As participants in these machinations up to now l2l meat butchers, 33 cattle traders and l3 other participants, together 217 persons from the district Moravian Ostrava were found; 12 meat-cutters and cattle traders were arrested by the secret state police as main participants, in Bohemia 64 persons are involved in these deportations. Similar events took place in Jglau. In the course of the past week, too, large amounts of meat and cattle have been exposed, and these surveys have not yet been completed. However, as a preliminary result, it can already be noted that 35 butchers, cattle traders and farmers were involved in the trade in sheepmeat. The cattle were already overtaken by the farmer and more expensive in the intermediate trade; then the meat was delivered to the consumers in the swan trade at a price of 28 - 40 K. The discovery of the shifts in Jglau showed traces which lead to Brno with regard to the sale of the shifted meat. Here, too, surveys are underway which are likely to lead to the further discovery of a large-scale chain trade. / /Mud