English Translation

90a -2- when entering the military service there was no more reputable resistance, there was later here and there in the homeland the inflating of the resistance, whose suppression even demanded some executions, the focus of the demoral home politics consisted in the slogan 'Do not fight and surrender' and then in the expectation of the Russians who advanced in Galicia. The newspapers of that time, like the entire press, did not like to express the mood of the population during the period of war, unless it was possible to smuggle through fragments of the truth from time to time between the lines. Already in September 1914 the persecution of the Czech press began with the cessation of the "Samostatnost" and the "České slovo" and with detailed instructions to the other newspapers about how to write them, if they wanted to avoid their attitude. At the same time, because of his pre-war relations with Serbia and Špatný, Kloféč was arrested as a notorious anti-militarist, the military government, you represent the General Staff, who chose Dor Toschc for his stay, with Archduke Friedrich as the supreme ruler and the Baron Konrad von Hötzendorf as the head of the General staff, began to exert an enormous influence on all internal politics in the non-Hungarian parts of the monarchy alongside the Ziyil government in Vienna and was particularly prejudiced against the Tehechian Gebiuto. Dioso's behaviour was still growing when, towards the end of 1914 and beginning of 1915, a number of Czech regiments proved unreliable and finally, the whole of the 18th infantry regiment at the Russian front was surrendered, during that time, Persecutia was particularly burdened with feeding and Silesia, where the first death sentences were also carried out because of high treason, and Although because of the spread of leaflets of the Russian commander Nikolay Nikklaevich, in Bohemia the attitudes were far more bearable; here the city governor of Bohemia, Franz Count Thun, the worst attacks and intrusions of the politicizing military posts were onergically slowed down, until it was finally forced in April 1915, to the pressure of military forces to To his successor was then appointed Count Max Couden- hovo, who was merely oin executive organ of the Vienna orders.