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420 1 -34 - similar. The late Dr. Rašin was tireless and admirable in this dangerous work. In this work also the head of the "Venkov", Anton Jun, helped us in the years 19l6 and 1917 Czech politicians were after-yielding, and I was able to work with Dr. Tobolka did not even realize that in his great work "The Bohemian People" he took a contribution about Slovakia from me, In 1917 Drahotin Štefánek came with his comrade Dubrava to the Italian front, where he as a sergeant of the staff had the opportunity to learn all kinds of things of value for our Maffia. He sent me reports either on open cards with the fake stamp "censored" or in closed letters by soldiers traveling on vacation, and I gave them to Dr. Stěpánek without knowing that I was serving the Maffia Committee. I also made two information trips on behalf of Dr. Šámals to Budapest to reveal the secrets of a factory for the production of toxic gases. In Budapest, however, I encountered insurmountable obstacles and learned only a few things about the classification and number of operations of the factory in Neu-Pest. They could not give me the chemical toxic gas formula. Perhaps it also deserves to be mentioned that at Dr. B, Valent and in direct relation to him were also with me po-, lizeige house searches. Furthermore large investigations of any offenses Prof. Dr. Kváčals. I knew, however, that I was under guard, and so nothing was found with me, An investigation for my military effort I survived happily, and my colleague Votruba could even hide as a military deserter for three years. In addition to our informative and agitational work for Slovakia and the Czecho-Slovak transition, we could not afford anything for both Slovaks in Prague. Christmas 19l7 came Dr. Šrobár to Budapest in order to heal himself, and had the opportunity to read some French and English books and magazines, which regularly took off the city library led by the excellent scholar Jászi, Vlado Makovický still gave Šrobar -35-