September 16. The United Nations Children's Fund Executive Board approved a US$440,000 program for Free China for fiscal 1956, of which US$342,000 would be used for trachoma control, US$55,000 for materials and child welfare, and US$43,000 for venereal disease control in Taiwan.
Rear Admiral Albert E. Jarrell, Commander of the U. S. Amphibious Training Command in the Pacific, arrived in Taipei to confer with Chinese military leaders on the training projects of Chinese amphibious forces.
September 19. Premier O. K. Yui declared that the Republic of China would never recognize the so-called "Uigur autonomous regime" recently proclaimed by the Peiping puppet regime and that the Soviet-Peiping agreement "cannot have any legal effect whatsoever."
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Chief of the US delegation to the UN, said that the US would continue to oppose any relaxation of trade restrictions against Russia or the Chinese Reds.
September 20. On a motion by US Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., the UN General Assembly, by a vote 42-12, decided to postpone any consideration of the Chinese representation issue at the 10th Assembly. September 21. In his first speech before the UN 10th Assembly Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh declared that the Peiping puppet regime does not have the Chinese people's support and has, therefore, no right to speak for China.
CUSA declared that of a budget of NT$50,000,000 from the US aid counterpart fund had been approved for the fiscal year of 1956 to help repair worn-up city roads all over Taiwan.
September 22. Philippine Vice President and concurrently Foreign Minister Carlos Garcia reiterated that the Philippines would vote for the inclusion of the Republic of China, South Korea, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
In his interview with John Osborne, representative of Time and Life magazines in the Far East, Premier O. K. Yui announced that U.S.-Peiping talks at a ministerial level would be regarded by the free peoples as scuttling of American traditional policy and Free China would be greatly disappointed if such an eventuality should happen.
A CAF communiqué announced that a batch of CAF patrol planes attacked and severely damaged 2 Communist landing craft and a naval transport off the Fukien coast near Shen-jih island, southwest of Pingtan.
September 23. A Japanese Diet Mission comprising four lawmakers headed by Daisuke Takaoka arrived in Taipei for a 24-hour visit.
September 25. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the Government of the Republic of China had decided to accord formal recognition to the Provisional Government of Argentina.
The Taiwan Anti-tuberculosis Association revealed that the TB death-rate on this island had dropped by one half from 16.2% in 1947 to 8.3% in 1953 as a result of the anti-tuberculosis campaign in Taiwan.
September 27. CAF planes severely damaged a 2,500-ton Communist freighter on the sea southeast of Swatow.
September 28. Ambassador Wellington Koo voiced Free China's deep concern over the current Geneva talks between the US and the Peiping puppet regime and served a notice of warning that the US must beware of the Chinese Reds "sinister design."
Free China observed the 2,506th birthday anniversary of the nation's greatest sage Confucius by declaring a national holiday featuring ceremonial rituals and citations for meritorious teachers in the nation.
A CAF Spokesman warned that any merchantman plying off the south China coast without clear identification would be attacked by Chinese Air Force planes.
September 29. President Chiang Kai-shek appointed Vice Admiral John G. Ma as Vice Minister of National Defense to succeed Gen. C. C. Huang who had been appointed Presidential Chief of Staff.
September 30. Fu Yun, Secretary General of the newly established Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen, declared that the Commission had already resettled 31,251 retired officers and men by enabling them to engage in civilian pursuits.
A Military Information Service dispatch from Kinmen reported that the Communist artillery deployed in the Amoy area fired 527 rounds at Lieh Yu and Shu Yu, two satellite islets of Kinmen. The Red guns also shelled Kinmen with 190 rounds.
Senator Allen J. Ellender, Chairman of the US Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, arrived in Free China on his tour of Far Eastern countries to make an on-the-spot survey of the possibilities of American economic assistance to the area.
October 3. A group of 180 Chinese students from Hongkong and Macao arrived in Taipei to continue their studies in their fatherland.
October 6. The 4-day 6th plenary session of the 7th Central Committee of the Kuomintang, which was attended by all the 32 members of the Central Committee, alternate members, and all unit-chiefs of the Party with President Chiang Kai-shek presiding over both the opening and closing sessions in his capacity as Director-General of the Party, wound up its work after reviewing Party activities in the past six months and mapping out plans for the future.
October 7. Hsu Nai, Acting Economic Minister, declared in a press conference that most production targets set by the Government had been attained in the first two years and nine months of the four-year economic plan.
Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh declared in the United States that the West must seek to wrest that initiative from the Communists and insist on non-recognition of Communist gains if Asian Communism was to be stemmed.
October 8. US Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr., and John B. Hollister, Director of the International Cooperation Administration, in the company of their wives, arrived in Taipei on a three-day familiarization tour of Taiwan.
Seven groups of foreign and Chinese women led by Madame Chiang Kai-shek paid a visit to the sick and wounded military personnel in and around the city of Taipei.
October 9. In his message issued on the eve of the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Republic President Chiang Kai-shek appealed to the free Chinese all over the world to discharge the responsibility of recovering the lost mainland by relying on their own determination and efforts.
Maj. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau, Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Far East Command, arrived in Taipei to represent Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, Commander of the US Far East Command, at the Double Tenth celebrations.
Five Congressmen of the Republic of Korea arrived in Taipei to attend the Chinese National Day celebrations.
October 10. Free China showed off her ever-growing military might when some 20,000 fully equipped troops backed up by some 309 tanks and armed vehicles staged a giant military parade to celebrate the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China.
Thousands of Chinese national flags were hoisted in cities and towns in the Philippines as the 200,000 overseas Chinese throughout the country warmly celebrated the Double Tenth National Day. Meanwhile, Chinese communities in Japan, Singapore, Malaya, Bangkok, and Hongkong and everywhere in the free world celebrated the 44th birthday of their fatherland with great enthusiasm.
President Chiang Kai-shek held a three-and-half-hour meeting with American Under-Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr., and Director of the ICA John B. Hollister, during which they exchanged views on ways and means to strengthen Sino-American cooperation in the anti-Communist struggle.
October 11. Yaroslaw Stetzko, President of the Center Committee of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, declared that his league would soon exchange information on anti-Communist activities with the Chinese authorities here for further promotion of better relations between the peoples of China and Europe.
The Legislative Yuan adopted a resolution calling for a Government declaration to terminate the state of war between China and Germany.
October 13. Foreign Minister George Yeh called on the Western allies and the UN to refrain from acts that would make the suffering of the Chinese people on the other side of the Iron Curtain even more unbearable.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs disclose that from January through August the export from this island amounted to more than US$91,000,000 while the imports amounted to little more than US$54,000,000. October 14. President Chiang Kai-shek in Presidential mandate appointed Chen Chih-mai to be Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of the Philippines.
October 15. Free China's Air Force scored record-breaking victory when its outnumbered Sabrejets shot down a Communist MIG in fierce dogfight off the mainland coast.
A 30-member athletic delegation of the Philippine Air Force arrived in Taipei for a five-day goodwill visit to Free China.