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— page three = whole thing is one of the most mysterious happenings of recent times. On Friday, July 11th, a transport which had just crossed the border was waylaid roughly 20 KM inside Hungary by a strong force of Mig — . sien uniformed men, led by a man wearing Russian lieutensnts distine= tionse A fight begen, during which the uniformed men used their tommy=guns and killed one AVH man end two factory guards. Several others were wounded. Then the transport was robbed and the Uranium taken by the assailants, The inquiry which was started at once by AVH authorities was made in the absence of any Russian something extraordinary under the given circumstances, A week later the inquiry was dropped, end all those connected with the matter ordered to Complete silence, The relatives of the AVH man were notified, that he was killed in a traffic accident and had been buried, We do not | kbow how the relatives of the Czechs were notified, The whole matter . hence is one of the most mysterious things, and while our observers | are unable to go enyfurther in their inquiry without to much risk, | they all point out that this seems to be a matter which tends to show intra=service strifes behind the Iron Curtain to a degree which is ast not generally believed in the free world. It is the theory of our | observers = but it is only a theory = that this is a case of-fight between the Red Amy and Commmist authorities over the control of vital materials, a conflict which id no news to our observers. They would be inclined to believe that the Russian attackers were acting on higher ordersy and that hence the enquiry was stopped. In the military field the efforts continue as in the past. At present the main effort is laid on the formation of Infantry — Officers as well as on the rapid retraining of #11 forces to the new Russian weapons andssystems. This retraining is done with great speed to the detriment of deeper lmowledgee The courses are of a maximum of five months, though most are only three monthse The whole matter is one of feverish speed at present. As soon as the ninth Division was terminated in early July, the tenth Division is already started. The motorization of these forces is gaining momentum very rapidly, so that it can bef estimated that both the ninth and the fourth Division will be motorized before the end of the autumn, Our observers insist very strongly on the feverish nature of this amement drive, and tell us, that efficiency and quality is again sacrificed to speed - something which had not been so even a few months ago. It is underscored, that this is obviously done on Rus= gian orderse At the seme time our observers Say, that they still see no sign of impending action against Yugoslavia, as Tito pretends from time th time. a In the Amy itself, the Political Commissars are trying very fast to eliminate the last vestiges of en independent Hungarian force and to put everything according to Soviet standards, Tradition of spetific Hungarian nature is eliminated. By next year it is expec= ted that a working knowledge of Russian will be required of officers. 44.