The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-01-06
INTERNATIONAL

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JAN, 1--German warships seized two
Spanish steamers in reprisal.
Jan. 2-Great Britain and Italy signed
Jan. Spanish government protested
Italian aid given to Fascist rebels.
Jan. 17-Soviet Russia refused to declare
ban on volunteers going to Spain.
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 United
States apologized to Germany for insulting
reference to Hitler by Mayor La Guardia
of New York.
March international conference on
distribution of sources of raw materials
opened in Geneva.
March international sea patrol to
isolate Spanish war began.
March 25-Italy and Jugoslavia signed a
peace and economic treaty.
March 30-Hans Dieckhoff appointed Ger
April 24@Great Britain and France re.
leased Belgium from Locarno obligations
and guaranteed it against aggression.
May british ships helped remove CIV
May 25-Jews in Italy were ordered to
become Fascists or leave the country. i.
May 27-Spain protested to League OF
Germany in Spanish civil war.
May 29-Spanish loyalist planes bombed
German battleship Deutschland, killing %
and wounding 80.
May 3I-German warships shelled AL
meria. loyalist Spanish port. killing 20.
Germany and Italy withdrew from in
ternational neutrality patrol
June l0-Mussolini modified big army to
aid Spanish rebels.
June 24-United States Joined Great Bri;
tain and France in warming Germany and
Ifarx, 70 off Snoin
June 29-Russia agreed to withdraw
troops from disputed islands as Japan
made war threat.
and Japanese west of Peiping
July 9-Great Britain was delegated
by 81 powers to devise new plan for
naval patrol of Spanish coast.
July 13-Chinese fought off Japanese at.
tacks in furious fighting around Peip.
July 2o-Japanese seized port Of Tangh.y,
July 2S-London naval treaty of 1896
went into effect.
Aug. s-Japanese army occupied Peip-
ing, China.
Japanese warships at Shanghai. killed
nearly 1000 civilians in international set.
Element.
evacuated from Shanghai.
Japan closed its embassy at Marking.
Aug. 19-Portugal severed relations with
Czechoslovakia.
Aug. a5IJapan blockaded Chinese coast
for 800 miles.
Aug. 26-British ambassador to China
wounded by Japanese aviators.
token payment on debt to United States.
Aug. 29-Great Britain demanded full re-
dress from Japan for shooting OF amoas-
sador to China.
Aug. 3o-American liner President Hoover
bombed by Chinese planes by mlstake'
one of crew killed. ten wounded
Aug 31-Little Entente voted to continue
alliance with France.
Sept. 5-Great Britain and France invited
powers to conference to stop piracy by
submarines in Mediterranean.
Sept Hitler declared Germany stood
with Italy and Japan in fight on commun-
ism
Russia accused Italy of Mediterranean
piracy.
Sept. 8-Japanese planes bombed Chinese
refugee train near Shanghai, killing 800.
Sept. 11-England and France agreed to
police Mediterranean against pirate subma-
rines
Sept 12-China asked League of Nations
to halt Japanese aggression.
Sept. 13-League of Nations seated Span.
ish loyalist delegates.
Sept. 14-spain agreed to pay sso.oOo.ooo
Sept. 18-BritlSh underwriters cancelled
all war risk insurance.
Spain demanded League of Nations curb
German and Italian aggression in Spanish
civil war.
Italy demanded parity in Mediterranean
'anti-piracy patrol.
king and Canton; protests of United States
and Great Britain disregarded.
Sept 25-Mussolini began FIVE day visit
with Hitler.
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Japan refused League of Nations invita-
ton to discuss war in China.
japan for bombing civilians in China.
Sept. 29-Japan defended her air raids on
Marking.
British government approved building of
warplane fleet for China.
Oct. Japan warned world not to inter-
fere with her actions in China.
Oct. 5-League of Nations recommended
convocation Of nine.power pact signatories
to consider Sino-J Japanese war.
Oct. 6-United States government formally
denounced Japan as violator of treaties.
League of Nations invited nine-power
treaty signers to take action to stop Japan
Oct. 9EJapan denied treaty breaking and
Oct. 16~United States accepted invita-
ton to conference of nine-poWer treaty sig
natories on Sino-Japanese war; Norman H.
Davis named head of American delegation
Oct: 26-Japanese routed Chinese defend
ers 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 receive
consuls of Francois Spanish regime.
Nov 3-Far East peace parley opened in
Brussels.
Nov 5-Duke of Windsor abandoned Amer
lean tour because of criticisms by labor
Nov; 6-Italy joined Germany and Japan
in anti-communiSm agreement.
Nov. 8-Shanghai captured by the JAP
aneSe.
Nov 12-Japan rejected peace proposals
Of Brussels conference.
Nov. 15-Fifteen nations in Brussels con-
ference voted to condemn japan for invad-
ing China.
Nov. I6-Government of China evacuated
Marking.
Nov. 18-Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
awarded 1887 Nobel peace prize.
Nov. 23-Japan established Chahar and
Suiyuan provinces of North China as new
buffer state.
| moved from Marking to Hankow.
Nov. 24-Brussels Far East conference
collapsed
Nov. 26-Japanese seized all communi-
cation facilities in Shanghai area
Nov. 29-Italy recognized Manchukuo gov.
eminent.
Dec. Japanese armies began siege of
Marking.
Dec. 1l-Japan announced the capture of
Marking.
Italy quit the League of Nations.
Dec 12-U S. Gunboat PaAay and three
Standard Oil ships sunk by japanese shells
in Yangtse river; British gunboats shelled.