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PelSing- Shanghai express and kidnaped
many foreign passengers. including IL
| Americans demanding one million dol
| lars ransom.
--ay s-Chinese government ordered
| that all demands of bandits who kid
naped foreigners should be complied
| with.
May s-Irish Free State announced
| rejection OF De Valeras peace offer.
| May 2O--Andrew Bonnr Law resIRned
as prime minister OF Great Britain.
May 22LStanley Baldwin appointed
| British prime minister
May 2G--Communlst strike and riots
| IN the Ruhr Increased in violence.
May 27-Polish cabinet resigned;
! Witos made premier.
June 9-Stamboulisky's peasant gov
ernment In Bulgaria overthrown In nj
most bloodless revolution; Professor
Aankon mads premier.
| June 12-An foreign captiVes re-
| leased by Chinese bandits.
| civil war broke out In Bulgaria.
| President Ii Iuan-hung OF China fed
| from PekinR
June 14-Li Yuan-hung resigned as
| president Of China.
| StamboulisSy captured and killed In
| Bulgarian village
June 22-Manitoba voters killed pro-
ernment.
July 15-Mussolini clnched his grip
| as dictator of Italy by forcing parlla-
ment to pass his electoral law. -
July l6-Brltish parliament rejected
Labor partys motion proposing gradual
transition to socialist form Of govern
ment.
July 2O--Gen. Francisco villa noted
eN-chief of Mexican rebels and bandits.
slain from ambush.
July 22-Belleau Wood. in France.
dedicated as memorial to Americans
Aug 6-Telxelra Comes elected pres
dent of Portugal.
Henry Sullivan of Massachusetts
swan the English channel.
Aug. S-Chancellor Cuno presented to
relchstag his rescue plan for Germany,
including a gold loan taxation on a
gold value basis and a heavy levy on
Aug. i2-Chancellor Cuno and the
German government resigned. Gustave
Stresemann undertook to form new
cabinet the first coalition majority gov
ernment in Germany's history.
Aug. LEBANON de Valera arrested
Aug, 2l-German cabinet demanded
Sl0O,0OO,000 from the industrialists
Aug. 27-Irish government party won
in elections.
Aug 2s-Admiral Yamamoto made
premier of Japan. succeeding the late
Baron Kato.
Sept. 12-spanish army revolted
Sept. l4-Spanish cabinet resigned:
directorate established under presI-
dency of Cen Primo Rivera, leader OF
Sept 19-WHliam Cosgrave reelected
president of Irish Free State.
Sept. 2S-king Boris dissolved Bull
garian parliament and proclaimed a
state of Siege because of Communist
and peasant uprisings
Sept. 26-Germany officially aban-
doned passive resistance in the Ruhr.
Bavaria revolted and named Gustave
Won Kahr as dictator of the state,
Sept 27-President Ebert appointed
War Minister Gessler military dictator
Of Germany. Miners in the Ruhr de-
clared general strike.
Sept. 2S-Bul garian revolt crushed
with capture Of Ferdinandovo; ,.
Of Itustrin, Prussia.
Last vestige of civil rule abolished
IN Spain, an municipal governments be-
Oct -2-Kustrin recaptured by Ger
man government troops.
Oct 3-German cabinet resigned and
Chancellor stresemann began forma
ton of virtual directorate.
oct 4-Revolution started in north
oct, 5-Marshal Tsao-Kun elected
president of China.
German Socialists yielded to Strese-
Oct FINLAND refused to pay Rus
sia indemnity for death of cheka
oct. s-Reichstag, by heavy major
ity. gave chancellor Stresemann vote
of confidence.
Oct 9-Chancellor stresemann re-
fused demands of Hugo SHINES and
other industrlalists which would have
made them dictators of Germany.
oct. 1e-France refused to negotiate
with Germany on resumption of work
n n the ,, Ruhr, Preferring to deal with
bourse, the mark going to 7,O0O.0OO.OOO
OCT l5--IelCnSt2R COntlrmeQ Cnan-
cellor Stressmann as dictator.
oct. l7-Soclalist government of Sax
ony and Thuringia detied Stresemann.
Oct. 2i-Rhneland republic set up in
AK la Chapelie; movement spread to
other cities.
oct. 23-Communists fought bloody
battle with police in Hamburg: Al
killed. Rhlueland separatists ousted |
from several cities.
Chancellor Stresemann yielded to Ba-
varia's demand for greater autonomy
for the German states.
Oct. 27=-German government ordered
dismissal of SaXony cabinet. l
Oct. 2S-SaXon government defied the |
reich.
ed the Saxon cabinet.
Angora assembly proclaimed Turkey
republic and elected Mustapha Kemal
Oct. .sO-Ismet Pasha made premier
of Turkey.
Bayarian monarchists modified for
NOV. 1-Krupp signed Ruhr accord
Nov Socialists quit German cabi-
net and Stresemann assumed dictatorial
Nov. S-Hitler and Ludendorfr tried
to overthrow Bavarian government by
preme military dictator of Germany a by
Nov 9-Putsch of Bavarian Facisti
suppressed and Ludendorff arrested.
Nov; 10MTormer Crown Prince Fred
erick William returned to Germany
Nov. 12-Adolf Hitler arrested
Nov. 2o-Rhineland separatists cap
tured Mainz.
Nov. 21-Mobs from Upper silesian
towns looted and burned estates of rich
farmers who refused to sell food; many.
killed.
Nov. 23-German Chancellor Strese-
mann and mis- cabinet. denied a vote of
confidence by the reichstag, resigned.
Nov. 25-Dr. Heinrich Albert made
chancellor OF Germany.
Nov. 27-Failing to form a ministry,
Doctor, Albert resigned German
chancellor.
Nov. 2S-Matthes, head of Rhineland
republic. ousted by associates
Nov. 29-Stegerwald falling to form
German cabinet, DR.. Wilhelm Marx
Catholic leader, was made chancellor.
Dec. .-Germany completed negotia-
tlons for foreign loan to support her
new currency.
Dec. MANY German manufacturers
arrested for big tax frauds
Dec 6-Conseryatives dafa,.aa O.,