English Translation

19 E4 - 29 - 17 gave them bribed Russian officers, fled from Russia, came with these passports to the United States and from which the journey to Europe continued. We saw through this whole game. Every week we had reports from San Franzisko, how many German and Austrian officers travelled to New York with Russian passports and under that name and name, when they boarded a neutral ship in New York; we gave the Englindern message, the ship became European. Ufer halted, the German and Austrian spies arrested and placed in the London tower. All this happened from the beginning until the end of the war. As a counter-service, the English, Pranzos, Russians and Serbs gave us exceptional advantages, which no one else had - namely our soldiers in the prison camps and elsewhere, Only in this way could Czech passports be issued already in 1915, the Czech passes were already at that time provided by all the al lied consulates or sanctuaries with the visa. We supplied some of our revolutionary couriers with our own passports, but we also sent couriers who traveled to all sorts of other places, the courier Kvičala traveled to an Austrian passport, which you obtained from a Czech at the Austrian Consulate; he exhibited it himself. Frána Klepal traveled on an Anerican passport, Syháček on a Czech passport. The courier Chaloupek, having been declared by America the war on Austria-Hungary, was not able to travel on our Czech, or on 'an Austrian, or an American passport. It therefore went 'on a diplomatic passport of the scłwedish embassy in Washington, namely as a member of the Austrian diplomatic society in Washington. One can see that we had a very good organization, if we could do so, cass the Austrians