English Translation

"A vV 41 -31 - Dr. Bella and Vladimir Makovický give speeches, the officials had an enormous pleasure in being able to humiliate the hated Panslaves of such a way. All leading families were under police supervision and were not even allowed to meet one another, e.g. the clan Kysel made in St. Nikolaus the familia Lackovskýs confidentially attentive to not meeting Miloš Lacko according to old habits, not even the "women and girls", because this would be regarded as an event of meetings. The censorship of the magazines and the control of letters were much stricter than in Austria. Almost every letter was opened in the post office, and more than one Slovak came to prison for innocent utterances or suspicious statements. -As they knew these conditions, wrote. Our people did not at all, or only in the most urgent cases, express their opinion in philosophical contemplations or fairy tale-like and almost cabalistic comparisons," Proverbs of Holy Scripture, humoristic, seemingly un-guilty proverbs, etc. I corresponded from Prague with Dr. Šrobár and the Rosenbergs at all by Miss Ružena Houdek, by finding love letters in German, which sometimes caused strange scenes, or by apparent business letters to Mrs. Olga Houdec, everyone helped himself how he could. The situation of Slovakia was therefore not rosy and worsened in winter l9l4 after the defeat of the Austrian army in Russia, the Russians invaded Poland, the Buchenland and fought on the north side of the Carpathians. To Rosenberg Lieutenant Bohdan Pavlu brought authentic news about it, The joy of our people was enormous. Also the people learned what was going on. The conscious Slovaks were already looking forward to the "Cossacks", the women fed the cattle for them, threatened the Magyars and Magyarons who. Courts condemned and arrested, interned, hung and tortured our ordinary people because of their love for the Russians. (Šrobar: Erinnerungen an Krieg und Jail, page 29). But after a short time it turned out that the Russians were going back. The terrible pressure of the Germans at Gorlice went to a time - 32 -