STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2145, sig. 109-8/28 Page 23 · 23 of 24
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2145, sig. 109-8/28
English Translation
21. - 2 + Unidentified perpetrators smashed the window of his business on the night of January 22nd in Moravia. + On January 20th, 5 p.m., the head of the Carda in Kuttenberg (OlB Kolin) turned off the German radio news right at the beginning and refused to turn the device on at the request of two German soldiers. In the same restaurant a German soldier was not served by a waiter for a long time, so that even present Czechs got excited about it. Dvorak, the chief foreman and representative of the archbishopric goods in Vltavathein (OLB Budweis), has hidden his two furs and two other furs belonging to the administration in the attic, in order to avoid a feared demand for delivery. In Moravia-Ostrau these days, 32 German butchers are said to have received 30 delivery tickets. In circles of German commerce and crafts it is feared that, when these convenings are carried out, the laboriously established positions of German trade and crafts will largely be lost, among the scattered Germans in the OLB Brno, however, there is a new complaint about a strong lack of domestic fire. Time and again it is claimed that the Czechs are better supplied with fuel. In view of the current cold season, the entire population in the OLB Pilsen often complains about insufficient allocations of coal for domestic consumption. Among the Czech population of Olomouc, it is common to say that people who claim to be members of the German police are holding passers-by on the street, demanding their wallets and money exchanges, and confiscating them in four folds of banknotes. Kripo is informed From Prague it is reported that the communication on the closure of farms on a weekday and replacement work on Sundays caused great dissension among the workers. Sunday work is to be rejected in particular by the followers of those enterprises which involve many women. The Witkowitz ironworks (OLB Mähr.-Ostrau) report on difficulties with Slovak workers, of which about 50 have already been left out because of their 3