Foreign Events - June 1927
June 15.;—Boris Kowcheda, who assassinated Peter L. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison by the Extraordinary Court, in Warsaw.
Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine are entertained at dinner by the city of Frankfort, Germany.
Nanking Nationalist forces under Gen. Chiang Kai-shek are reported to have captured Haichow, in northern Kiangsu, near the Shantung border.
June 16.—The German Government, says a dispatch, has warned Georges Tchitcherin, the Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs, now in Berlin, that a continuation of the executions in Russia would provoke so great a revulsion of feeling that Germany might be forced to break off relations with the Soviet Government.
Marshal Chang Tso-lin and other leaders of the Ankuochun, or Northern Alliance, announce that Chang Tso-lin has assumed the post of "Generalissimo of the Forces for the Suppression of the Communists."
President William T. Cosgrave, of the Irish Free State, announces that as the Government is now in the minority in the Dail, he will refuse to assume power while Eamon de Valera, leader of the Republican party, announces that its members will refuse to take the oath of allegiance to the King.
June 17.—Mrs. Clarence D. Chamberlin and Mrs. Charles A. Levine join their husbands at Bremerhaven, and the four are enthusiastically received at Hamburg and Magdeburg, on their way. back to Berlin.
The forty-fifth session of the Council of the League of Nations ends, having agreed to try to influence Soviet Russia and Poland to maintain peace, to have the Powers represent to Russia that her wholesale executions are causing a bad impression, and to advise Jugo-slavia and Albania to settle their difficulties amicably.
June 19.—Speaking at the dedication of a war memorial at Luneville, in Lorraine, Premier Poincare says that France is not satisfied with Germany's post-war attitude, and complains of the agitation in Germany for a revision of the Dawes plan.
Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine fly from Berlin to Vienna, where they are enthusiastically welcomed.
The populace of Canton parade in protest against the landing of Japanese troops in North China.
June 20.—The three-Power conference called by President Coolidge to discuss further limitations of naval armament opens at Geneva.
In an allocution delivered during a secret consistory, Pope Pius XI says that the civil war in China and disturbed conditions in Mexico are the result of "subversive theories, every kind of which is being inflltered like poison into the nations."
The Golden Badge of Honor of the Austrian Republic is conferred upon Clarence D. Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine by President Michael Hainisch.
June 21.—The French Government receives an invitation from the United States Government to open negotiations for a special treaty between the United States and France for a permanent mutual dedication of the two nations to peace, says a dispatch from Paris.