July 16. The Chinese Space Aviation Institute holds its annual meeting at the National Science Hall.
The provincial government reports bumper harvests. Estimates indicate crops may exceed last year's by 20 per cent.
17. The defense command of Kinmen (Quemoy) tells visiting Chinese and foreign newspapermen that the Chinese armed forces will do more than return the fire if the Communists should attack the offshore islands.
Governor Chow Chih-ju orders island-wide compulsory inoculations against paracholera. Cases were the first of' a cholera-type disease in 15 years.
The Foreign Exchange and Trade Control Commission reports that Taiwan exported US$6,530,000 worth of canned mushrooms from January through May, an increase of US$5,640,000 over the same period of 1961.
18. The third group of 99 Chinese refugees who fled to Hongkong recently arrives at Keelung. Among them is Miss Liang Hsueh-li, girl truck driver praised by the Communists as a "model worker."
19. Chinese ambassador to Laos Dr. Han Lih-wu presents his credentials to King Savang Vatthana at Luang Prabang.
In a message to the Assembly of Captive European Nations President Chiang Kai-shek urges the mainland people "to seize the present internal crisis of the Communist regime to start an anti-starvation uprising for freedom in coordination with anti-Communist forces in free territories."
The Taiwan Provincial Department of Education reports enrollment of 1,986,944 primary school pupils, almost a fifth of the population.
C. Robert Payne, newly appointed director of the United States Information Service in Taipei, arrives.
20. Ndoumbe Nkotto, press officer of the Cameroun Ministry of Information, and Foalem Fotso, director of Rediffusion Cameroun, arrive for a 10-day visit.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of felicitations to President Alberto Lleras Camargo on the occasion of Colombia's national day.
The Chinese government endorses the proposed formation of a Pan-Asian organization to combat Communist aggression.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of felicitations to King Baudouin on the occasion of Belgian national day July 21.
21. Thousands of 20-foot balloons capable of soaring to 40,000 feet are released from Kinmen (Quemoy) and Matsu, carrying food and pamphlets to the mainland.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of fecilitations to Emperor Haile Selassie I on the occasion of his birthday and the July 23 national day of Ethiopia.
22. Typhoon Kate brings heavy rain to south and southwest Taiwan, causing landslides and disrupting highway and railway traffic. The toll: seven dead and 43 injured.
Three officers and 62 cadets of the United States Air Force Academy arrive from Hongkong for a three-day visit.
23. Ground is broken for a Sino-American urea fertilizer plant in Miaoli, northern Taiwan. It will cost US$22.5 million.
The Foreign Exchange and Trade Control Commission reports exports of processed goods in June jumped 88.7 per cent as compared with the corresponding month last year.
24. Chinese police rescue all 31 crew members of the Greek freighter S.S. Demos, which ran aground on Green Island off the east coast of Taiwan during typhoon Kate.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs announces the Chinese government has agreed to expand its agricultural assistance to Liberia and Libya.
25. The Provincial Civil Affairs Department discloses Taiwan's population registered 11,301,656 at the end of May, an increase of 30,610 over April.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of felicitations to President William V. Tubman of the Republic of Liberia on the occasion of its national day July 26.
26. Ku Cheng-kang, president of the Free China Relief Association, urges the British government and Hongkong authorities to discontinue sending refugees back to the Chinese mainland.
A six-member goodwill mission of the Vietnamese National Assembly, led by its president, Truong Vinh Le, arrives for a six-day visit.
President and Madame Chiang Kai-shek give a reception in honor of U.S. Admiral George W. Anderson Jr., Chief of the U.S. Naval Operations, and Mrs. Anderson.
27. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi has invited the Republic of China to send a special envoy to the October independence ceremony of the new African nation.
28. A collection of 253 art objects is returned to Taiwan after successful exhibition in five cities of the United States.
29. First Chinese trade office in Latin America is opened at Rio de Janeiro.
Dr. Liu Chieh, Chinese ambassador to Canada, is appointed permanent representative to the United Nations to succeed Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang.
30. Minister of Interior Lien Cheng-tung says that Taiwan has not been declared a paracholera epidemic zone by the U.N. World Health Organization.
31. The Legislative Yuan passes the Statute of Technical Cooperation for encouragement of overseas investment.
A six-man economic and technical mission led by Prof. Wen Pu-yi of Tunghai University leaves for the Philippines to help Chinese communities there.
Major General Chester A. Dahlen, U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. chief, announces that Major General Kenneth O. Sanborn, chief of the MAAG Air Force Section, will succeed him.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of congratulations to President Hubert Maga of the Dahomey Republic on its national day.
August 1. Fourth group of refugees from Hongkong, totaling 112, arrives for resettlement.
Dr. Simon Diaz Castellanos, the Dominican Republic's new ambassador to China, arrives.
The Young Brothers Enterprises, Inc., established by overseas Chinese in San Francisco with an investment of US$2 million, begins production of bottles with target of 40 million a year.
2. The Chinese government recognizes the new Peruvian government.
3. Patrick Pichi Sun, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says the Chinese government will not acquiesce in any "two Chinas" in Laos, where Peiping was seeking diplomatic recognition.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is informed of the Japanese government's decision to ban import of Taiwan fruits, dehydrated fruits, fish, shellfish and vegetables because of the island's paracholera epidemic.
4. The Ministry of Economic Affairs reports industrial output increased 11.7 per cent in the fiscal year ended June 30.
President Chiang Kai-shek and Vice President Chen Cheng send separate messages of felicitations to Sir Kenneth Blackburne, governor of Jamaica, and Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante on the occasion of Jamaica's independence day August 6.
The Chinese Asian Games Preparatory Committee receives 113 blank cards from the Indonesian Asian Games Organizing Committee instead of the expected registration forms.
5. The year's first rice crop is revealed as totaling a record 1,042,000 metric tons. The island has two and in some places three crops of rice a year.
6. Typhoon Opal with center winds of 170 miles an hour batters the northern part of Taiwan, leaving 85 dead and hundreds injured. Some 15,000 houses were destroyed or seriously damaged.
Dr. Carl Reinhard, member of the West German parliament, and Franz Ahlgrimm, executive chief of the West German Agricultural Technical Association, arrive from Hongkong for a two-week visit.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of felicitations to President Victor Paz Estenssor on the occasion of Bolivia's national day today.
7. The Legislative Yuan ratifies the 10-year treaty of trade and economic cooperation with Paraguay.
The Chinese Asian Games Preparatory Committee sends its third cable in a week to Jakarta asking for clarification of Indonesia's attitude toward Chinese participation in the Fourth Asian Games opening August 24 in Jakarta.
8. Banks lower interest rates to speed economic development.
Census of 1,508 large factories shows that more than 90 per cent of their equipment and facilities are in use.
A five-man economic and technical mission led by Prof. Tsou Chang of the National Taiwan University leaves for Thailand to help Chinese communities.
9. The government warns Japan against trying to expand trade with Peiping, noting that the Communists use trade for purposes of infiltration and subversion.
Wesley Haraldson, former director of U. S.
Agency for International Development Mission to China, leaves for the United States via Hongkong after four and a half years.
President Chiang Kai-shek sends a message of felicitations to President Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy on the occasion of Ecuador's national day August 10.
10. Bumper harvests are reported by the Chinese farm demonstration team working in an abandoned swamp area of eastern Liberia.
R. Sargent Shriver, director of the U. S. Peace Corps, makes a brief stopover in Taipei on his way from Tokyo to Manila.
11. The government orders compulsory anti-cholera shots for the one-third of the population that has not received them. Deaths stood at 17. Of 300 stricken, 140 had already recovered.
12. A 26-member drama troupe of the Chinese Moral Rearmament Movement returns from a year of performances in Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and the United States.
The government decides to establish an embassy in Kigali, capital of newly independent Rwanda. M. S. Ting, first secretary of the Chinese permanent delegation to the United Nations, will be charge d'affaires.
13. The Taiwan provincial government reports farmers' deposits with their own associations have reached US$25 million, 10 times more than in 1953.
Representatives of the Chinese and Japanese Junior Chambers of Commerce meet in Taipei.
14. A government spokesman categorically denies any secret truce agreement between the Republic of China and the Chinese Communists.
15. The Legislative Yuan amends the Commodity Tax Law to simplify procedures.
Adolfo Alfredo Bollini, first Argentine ambassador to China since the government moved to Taiwan, arrives in Taipei.
Fifth group of 30 refugees from Hongkong arrives for resettlement.