Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-01-05

political offenders.
Great Britain. and Italy signed agree.
April l9-Plot against King Carol Of
Rumania by Fascists foiled.
April IL 22-Japan paid United. United States
April Is - Anglo-Ireland agreement
signed, settling tt ade disputes.
April 28-Great Britain and France
agreed to pool their armed forces in
May a-Hitler arrived in Rome for
conference with Mussolini.
May 4--Dr. Douglas Hyde made pres.
ident of Ireland by acclamation
May 11-Japanese captured Annoy.
Nav 12mLeague of Nations council in.
formally recognized Italy's conquest OF
May is-New anti-Nazi government
MAY 21@German and Czech troops
massed along the frontier.
May 22-Germany promised Czecno-
slovakia would not be attacked.
MAY 30-Japanese bombed Canton for
three days, killing 800 persons and IN
juring 1.4Oo.
of Canton, killing hundreds.
June 11-United States government
took steps to discourage sale OF planes
to japan.
south China port killing many:
July 4-Chinese air base at Nanchang
raided and wrecked by Japanese bomb
july 14-Manchukuo protested inva-
sion py Russian troops.
July 19-King George of Great Britain
made state visit to Paris.
July 25-Japanese occupied kiukiang,
China, key to HankoW defense.
Aug Russian planes invade Korea
and Shell japanese:
Aug. Russia rejects Japanese terms,
offers counter plan.
Aug 11-Russia. Japan, reach truce
In Manchukuan border conflict
Aug. 24-Reichsfuehrer Hitler pledges
the inviolability of Hungary in meeting
with Admiral Horthy, Hungarian regent
Aug. 26-Hitler demands powers force
Aug. 27-Britain warns Hitler against
attack on Czechoslovakia.
Sept. 1-Mussolini orders out all Jews
who entered Italy since the World war.
Sept AFrance masses troops at Mag
mot line.
Sept 6-Polish police wreck 173 ortho-
dox churches; kill many
Sept, 9-Britain again warns Hitler
against attacking Czechs. .
Sept 11-CZechs and Nazis riot IN
Sudeten territory.
Sept. 12-Hitler defes Britain and
France in speech. .,
Sept 14-Czech troops smash civil war
Prime Minister Chamberlain flies to
Germany to see Hitler.
Japan pledges armed aid to Hitler;
Sept 15-Four-poWer peace parley
planned as result of Prime Minister
Chamberlain conference with Hitler.
Sept 16-Brtish and French cabinets
confer on Czech situation.
Sept 18-Britain and France yield to
Hitler's demands.
Sept 20-Czechs accept partition.
Sept 21-Poland and Hungary demand
slices of Czechoslovakia.
Sept 22-Chamberlain and Hitler dis
cuss peace plan.
Czech premier and cabinet resign.
Sept 25-President Roosevelt sends
peace appeal to Hitler.
Sept 26-Chamberlain pledges Britain
to enforce yielding of Sudeten area if
Hitler will not make war.
Hitler warns Czechs he is ready to
fight for Sudetenland.
Sept. 27-Roosevelt sends second plea
to Hitler. proposes European parley.
Sept 28-Hitler calls four.poWer peace
conference, including Great Britain,
France and Italy as last effort to avert
war.
Sept. circumference agrees to all Hit
lers demands; Germans take immedi-
ate possession OF Sudetenland. Czechs
submit.
Sept. 3o-German troops begin march
into Czechoslovakia.
Czechs get new demand from Poland
Czechs cede territory.
Oct. 4-Premier Daladier given die.
tatorial powers by French chamber OF
deputies.
President Benes of Czechoslovakia re-
Oct. 6-British forces kill SO Arabs
In new Palestine clash.
House of commons endorses Chamber.
lalns deal with Hitler.
Oct. 7--Powers bar plebiscite in Su-
detenland; give Hitler area without vote
of people.
Oct 8-Nazis stone palace of Cardinal
a Vienna
Oct. 10-Chinese report 10000 Japa-
nese slain in three-day battle near TEN
Oct. 12-Germany demands SAB 900, 900
financial position.
Oct. 14-Hitler demands Britain limit
air force to fraction of Germany's.
Oct. 16-Germany arrests labor lead
ers as anti-Nazi agitators in new wave
of unrest.
Oct. l8-British troops besiege Arab
rebels within old city of Jerusalem.
Oct. 20-British troops disarm Arab
Oct. 25-Duke of Kent made governor
of Australia.
Oct. 26-Japs take complete control of
HankoW.
Oct. 27-Japan approved plan to share
spoils of Chinese conquest with Germany
and Italy.
Nov. british commons, approved
Chamberlain,s pact with Italy.
kia by Germany and Italy.
Nov. 6-TWo British planes set non
stop record of 7,162 miles. flying from
Egypt to Australia.
ain accepted President Roosevelt's invi-
tation to visit United States.
Nov. 1870, 900 Jews thrown into pris'
on in Germany as mobs destroyed their
homes and stores.
Pearl Buck, American novelist, won
1888 Nobel prize for literature; Eurico
Fermi won physics. award.
Nov. 11-Duke of Gloucester visited
Duke of Windsor in Paris: former king
to be restored to royal family circle.
Gen. Ismet Inonu becomes president
OF Turkey.
Nov 12-Germany fines Jews s4oO.-
100000 as penalty for murder of Ger
Nov 1871 nations ask Nazis to let
Jews enter other lands.
Nov 2l-Britain offers new homelands
for German Jews in British Guiana and
parts of Africa.
Nov. 24-Prime Minister Chamberlain
and Foreign Secretary Halifax call on
duke of Windsor in Paris.
Nov. 29-General strike began in
France; troops occupy public services.
Nov. 30-German secret police begin
purge in Nazi circles and army in drive
to silence critics.
Dee Lithuanian province forbids use
OF 4lddlsh language in public. Japa.
nese AIR bomberS Kill II; wound 200 in
raid in KWellin. China
Dec. 4-French colonisaS in Tunis and
Corsica riot against Italy's apparent
program of annexation.
Dec. 5-Germany forbids Jews to en-.
gage in economic affairs and bars sale
of their possessions.
Dec. France and Germany sign mo
war" pact
Dec. 8-Britan shelves Germany's de-
mands for restoration of colonies
H-I1iS0FHprc ErHnnh-TtaI-
ian row over Tunisia.
Dec. 14-Brtish refuse to help France
in war with Italy
Dec. 15--Chamberlain warns Italy to
keep hands off French Tunisia.
Dec. 1G-Spanish rebels decree full
citizen rights to former King Alfonso.
Dec. 19--British infiict heavy losses on
Arab rebels in Palestine
Dec. 20-France fortifies African col
onies.