1935 (WEDNESDAY)
BULGARIA: Martial law is declared and Agrarians, Socialists, Communists, and others are arrested “because of a plot to overthrow the king and government.”
ETHIOPIA: The government notified the League of Nations Council that Italian troops have violated the frontier in province of Aussa. They asked Council "either to send observers or to obtain confirmation of this violation of Ethiopian territory through the Government of French Somaliland."
ITALY: Italy announced national mobilization stating ". . . because there is an attempt to commit against them the blackest of all injustices, to rob them of a place in the sun . . . to us were left only the crumbs from the sumptuous colonial booty of others. . . . With Ethiopia we have been patient for forty years. Now, enough! At the League of Nations, instead of recognizing the just rights of Italy, they dared to speak of sanctions. . . . To sanctions of a military character we will reply with orders of a military character. To acts of war we will reply with acts of war. . . .A people which is proud of its name and of its future cannot adopt a different attitude. . . ."
1938 (SUNDAY)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Polish troops occupied the southern part of the Teschen region. This region has been divided about equally between Czechoslovakia and Poland after World War I, the larger northern part to Poland and the southern part to the Czechs. Poland gained 400 square miles (1 036 square kilometers) of territory and 240,000 new citizens (of which approximately 100,000 are Polish).
October 2nd, 1939 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: RAF: 10 Sqn., Leaflets and reconnaissance of Berlin. Four aircraft. Three successful, one failed to return. Slight opposition, but weather severe.FRANCE: General Brooke confers with Gort C-in-C BEF at Arras on the training
schedules of the BEF.
The French government agrees to the formation of a Czech National Army in exile.
CANADA: Minesweeper
HMCS Cape Beale commissioned. Ex 58 ft
fishing vessel built in 1925 at False Creek (Vancouver), British Columbia.
Returned to owner April 1994.
Survey ship Acadia recommissioned as training ship HMCS Acadia.
U.S.A.: The government states that it will maintain relations with the new Polish government, but will not recognize partition.
In Washington, the German ambassador notifies the United States that merchant vessels must submit to visit and search, and that neutral merchant vessels refrain from suspicious actions when sighting German men-of-war and that they stop when summoned to do so. The Maritime Commission, and State and Navy Department representatives who meet to contemplate the request consider it proper and should be complied with.
The Chief of Naval Operations instructs all planning agencies within the naval establishment to accord precedence to the preparation of ORANGE (Japan) war plans.
The Benny Goodman sextet records the song "Flying Home" for Columbia Records. Fletcher Henderson is on the piano along with Lionel Hampton on vibes.
Submarine USS Searaven commissioned.
PANAMA: The Pan-American Conference sets up the 300 mile security and neutrality zone around the American coast agreed on 23 September. Within this zone all hostile actions by the belligerent powers is forbidden.
SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN: Graf Spee claims four more merchant ships in the South Atlantic over October before heading into the southern Indian Ocean. To search for her, seven hunting groups are formed in the Atlantic and one in the Indian Ocean. In total the Royal and French Navies deploy three capital ships, four carriers and 16 cruisers.