The Coolidge examiner., 1937-12-30
INTERNATIONAL

Jan. 1-German warships seized two
| Spanish steamers in reprisal.
Jan. 2-Great Britain and Italy signed
| Mediterranean pact.
Jan. 6-Spanish government protested
| to League of Nations against German
and Italian aid given to Fascist rebels.
Jan. 17-Soviet Russia refused to de-
| clare ban on volunteers going to Spain.
Jan. 24-Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
| signed treaty of friendship and peace.
Jan. 30-Hitler on fourth anniversary
Of his assumption of power denounced
| the war guilt clause of Versailles treaty.
March 5-Department of State of Unit
ed States apologiZed to Germany for
| insulting reference to Hitler by Mayor
| La Guardia of New York.
March 8-International conference on
distribution of sources Of raw materials
| opened in Geneva.
March 14-International sea patrol to
isolate Spanish war began.
March 25-Italy and JugoSlavia signed
a peace and economic treaty.
March 30-Hans Dieckhof appointed
German ambassador TO the United
States.
released Belgium from Locarno obliga-
tons and guaranteed it against aggres-
sion.
May 25-Jews in Italy were ordered
to become Fascists or leave the country.
May 27-Spain protested TO League
and Germany in Spanish civil war.
May 29-Spanish loyalist planes
bombed German battleship Deutsch-
land, killing % and wounding S3.
May 3l-German warships Shelled
Almeria. loyalist Spanish port. killing
20.
Germany and Italy withdrew from
International neutrality patrol.
June 10-Mussolini modified big army
&c aid Spanish rebels.
June 24-United States joined Great
Britain and France in warning Germany
and Italy to keep hands off Spain.
July 9-Great Britain was delegated
by q powers TO devise a new plan for
naval patrol of Spanish cocst.
July 20-Japanese seized port OF
Tanghu. China, and began general Of
fensive south of Peiping.
July 29-London naval treaty of 1896
went into effect.
July 30-Japan set up puppet regime
In North China.
Aug. s-Japanese army occupied
Peiping. China.
Aug. l.-Chinese airmen, trying to
bomb Japanese warships at Shanghai.
killed nearly 1000 civilians in inter-
national settlement.
Aug. 16-Americans and British were
evacuated from Shanghai.
japan closed its embassy at Nanking.
Aug. 1a-Portugal severed relations
with Czechoslovakia.
Aug. 22-Chinese and Japanese In
great battle near Peiping.
Aug. 26-British ambassador to China
wounded by Japanese aviators.
Hungary announced It would make
States.
Aug. 3o-American liner President
Hoover bombed by Chinese planes by
mistake; one of crew killed. ten
Aug. 31-Little Entente voted to con.
tinue alliance with France.
Sept. 5-Great Britain and France
invited powers TO conference to stop
piracy" by submarines in Mediter-
Sept. 7-Hitler declared Germany
stood with Italy and Japan in fight on
communism.
Sept. 8IJapanese planes bombed
Chinese refugee train near Shanghai.
Sept. lI-England and France agreed
to police Mediterranean against pirate
submarines
Sept. I2-China asked League of Ma
tions to halt Japanese aggression.
Sept. l3-League of Nations seated
Spanish loyalist delegates.
Sept. 14-Spain agreed to pay $780,
000, 900 American war claims.
Sept. 18-British underwriters can
celled all war risk insurance.
Spain demanded League of Nations
curb German and Italian aggression in
Spanish civil war.
Italy demanded parity in Mediter-
ranean se2t santiPTaey RatFG aets ra,aed
Marking and Canton; protests of Unit
ed States and Great Britain disre-
garded.
Sept. 25-Mussolini began FIVE day
visit with Hitler.
Japanese airplanes bombed six big
Chinese cities.
Japan refused League of Nations in
vitation to discuss war in China.
Sept. 28-League of Nations con-
demned japan for bombing civilians in
Sept. 29-Japan defended her air raids
on Nanking.
British government approved building
of warplane feet for China.
Oct. Japan warned world not to
interfere with her actions in China.
Oct 5-League of Nations recon-
mended convocation of nine-power pact
signatories TO consider Sino-Japanese
war.
Oct. 6-United States government
formally denounced Japan as violator
of treaties.
League of Nations invited nine-pow-
er treaty signers to take action to stop
Japan in China.
Oct. 9LJapan denied treaty breaking
and blamed China.
Oct. l6-United States accepted in.
vitation to conference of nine-power
treaty signatories on Sino-Japan war;
Il.
ican delegation.
Oct. 26SJapanese routed Chinese de.
| tenders of Shanghai.
Oct 29-Japan declined to attend
nine-power treaty conference.
Oct 30-Several British soldiers killed
by Japanese in Shanghai.
Nov. 2-Great Britain agreed to re-
ceive consuls of Francois Spanish reg
| ime
Nov. 3-Far East peace parley opened
Nov. 5-Dule of Windsor abandoned
| American tour because of criticisms by
| labor.
Nov. 6-Italy Joined Germany and
japan in anti-communism agreement.
Nov. 8-Shanghai captured by the
Japanese.
Nov. 12-Japan rejected peace pro.
| posals of Brussels conference.
Nov. 15-Fifteen nations in Brussels
conference voted to condemn Japan for
Nov. i6~Government of China evacu'
ated Marking.
Nov. 18-Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
awarded 1887 Nobel peace prize.
Nov 23-Janan established % ChanaT Cs,a
and Suiyuan provinces OF Nortn emma
| as new buffer state.
| American Ambassador johnson anc
staff moved from Nanking to E7akow
Nov. 24-Brussels Far East conference
collapsed.
| Nov. 26-Japanese seized all com
munication facilities in Shanghai area
Nov 29-Italy recognized ManchukuC
government.
Dec 7-Japanese armies began siege
of Marking.
Dec. I1-Japan announced the cap
ture of Nanking. Italy quit the League
of Nations.
Dec. 12-U. S. Gunboat Panay anC
| three Standard Oil ships sunk by Japa
| nese shells in Yangtse river: British
| darnonded apoIoeies indemnificatio