Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-01-01

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EDWARD C. WAYNE
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| 7-Greeks push back crack italian troops.
| 11-Nazis and Russ sign new trade pact.
| l7-Russian. Rumanian clashes disturb Bal.
kanS.
21-Givil roting breaks out in Rumana.
27-Rumanian revolt leaders executed az
| civil rioting is ended.
| 3O-British forces sweep on beyond Derna
Hitler declares all "aid-to- Britain" ships
win be torpedoed.
February
7-Eritish empire forces capture Bengasi,
last important city in eastern Libya aft.
er l6o-nlie drive i'll seven days against
s-Winston Churchill in worldwide radio
Droadcast ea tn dsfast asks y for tools not
Admiral Darlan named vice premier and
foreign minister of France as Laval
loses out.
10-Great Britain breaks diplomatic ties with
Rumania
11-Russia reported to have okayed Nazi
thrust into Bulgaria.
NaziS fly army to Balkans.
16-Brltaln mines Singapore sea lanes
18-Japan offers to mediate European war.
2l-Nazi troops enter Spain (small detach-
Nazi troops massed near Bulgaria.
22-Nazl army units reported 60 miles In
26-Anthony Eden reaches Turkey for war
talks.
March
1-Bulgaria joins Axis. German troops en-
2-Turkey closes Dardanelles as Nazis push
through Bulgaria to Greek ana Turkish
12-British rush aid to Greece
13-British smash at Berlin for first time
since December 90 1910,
20-CroWn council of JugoSlavia approves
program of passive alliance with AXIS;
Serbs .angered; three ministers quit in
27-Boy King Peter takes JugosIav throne
as Axis rule is ended in bloodless coup
detat.
April
3-Bengasi, eastern Libyan capital, taken
from British by Nazis and Italians.
6-Germany declares war on Jugoslavia
and Greece. Invasion starts.
Add1S Ababa. Ethiopian capital, entered
by British
13-Japan and Russia sign neutrality pact.
16-'Worst bombing" of all time hits Lon
Jugoslav army collapses
19-Greece announces suicide of Premier
Korizis. King George heads new govern
British troops land in Irao to guard
vital oil supplies.
22-Nazis crack both ends of Allied defense
line in Greece and reach history-famed
Thermopylae pass.
27-Nazi advance guard enters Athens.
Nav
1-Iraq protests landing of British forces
to protect oil fields.
2-Iraq forces fight British. shell important
airport.
3-British troops out of Greece enter Afri-
battle.
6-Pritish regain control of Irao oil pipe
Stain takes UsSR premiership.
12-Rudolf Hess fees Germany and lands
in England.
15-MarshaI Petain OF France agrees to
clcSer cooperation with Germany.
2o-Dul:e of Aosta and main italian force in
Ethiopia surrender to British.
24-Lareest warship aloat, Britans 42,000-
ton Hood. is sunk by new 35000-ton
German battleshp Bismarck.
N-British navy sinks bcttleship Bismarck
after thrilling sea battle.
June
5-Cerman forces reported in Syria.
8-British and Free French forces invade
l0-U s. freiahter Robin Moor reported sunk
by Nazi U-boat in mid-Atlantic.
18-Turkey and Germany sign friendship
2l-British and Free French in Syria take
Damascus.
1880 Brest-Ltovsk, Wilma. Kaunas, Dvinsk
and Lwow fall to Nazis as Russians hold |
on north and south fronts.
July
2-Stalin orders "scorched earth" policy for
Russia as Germans advance.
8-Britain halls u S. occupation OF Iceland. |
12-Soviet claims sea victory over Nazls.
Russia.England sign mutual aid pact.
Armistice signed in Syria.
18-Japanese form new cabinet under Prince
Konoye.
23-Vichy France accepts Japans demand |
for military control of French Indo. |
China.
25-Japan's assets frozen by u S. and Brit
2s-Finnish government breaks relations
with Britain.
August
First Russian air raids on Berlin
l0-Russia admits NaZi gains in Kev and J
Leningrad sectors.
l4-Winston Churchill and President Roose.
Welt meet at sea and issue eight-polnt /
declaration of peace aims.
l6-soviet agrees to conference of Russia.
Britain and u. S. /
24-Russo- British troops invade Iran.
29-Hitler and Mussolini end conference on
eastern front" u!
September !
President Roosevelt calls on U. S. to
crush Axis power.
sea.
7-American freighter Seafarer bombed
and sunk in Red sea. !
19-NaZis report fall of KieV.
24-Anglo American peace aims and post
war food pool plans approved by II AL
lied governments in London.
27-Guerrilla fighting causes Nazis to send /
three divisions to Serbia.
29-Britsh-U. S. commission for aid to Rus
sia opens in Moscow
October
3-Executions reported curbing anti-NaZi
uprisngs throughout Europe.
10-Russians admit troops are falling back
toward Moscow.
12-Won2en and children ordered to leave
Moscow.
16-Japanese cabinet falls and is replaced
by one more "Warlke"
17-Part of government evacuates MOSCOW.
21-Russians hurl back attacks on Moscow
front
Fifty Frenchmen ordered executed for
Staying of NaZi army official in France
25-Nazis report fall of important Russian
city of Kharkov.
November 7
3-U. S. warns Finland to cease fighting
Reds.
3-U-boats will IRE on U. S. ships. says
Hitler.
British lose 50 planes in sweeping CONT.