September 29. The Taiwan Provincial Government and the Taiwan Provincial Peace Preservation Headquarters jointly appealed to the general public to help weed out Communist elements in Free China.
September 30. President Chiang Kai-shek told graduating midshipmen at southern Taiwan that an improved navy morale code is needed for the building-up of China's new navy.
October 1. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced an agreement between China and Japan for the establishment in Taipei "as soon as practicable" a Japanese Government Overseas Agency.
Italy joined UN war effort in Korea with the announcement she would send a medical unit to Korea.
October 2. The Legislative Yuan asked the Executive Yuan to submit as early as possible the national budget for fiscal 1952, beginning next January 1, to the law-making body for approval.
October 3. Russia's second atomic bomb explosion in nearly two years was announced by the White House and one Congressman said it may mean the Soviet Union is working on guided missiles with atomic warheads.
October 4. Dr. Hubert G. Schenck, new chief of the China Mission of the ECA, arrived in Free China from Tokyo this afternoon for a one-week stay to orientate himself with conditions here.
October 5. US Secretary of State Dean Acheson said the US "continues to oppose" recognition of Communist China, seating of its delegates in the UN and surrender of Taiwan to the Reds.
October 6. H. C. Jen, Provincial Finance Commissioner, announced only 15 kinds of taxes will be exacted next year and reaffirmed his pledges the levying of all other taxes or assessments are to be considered illegal.
October 7. It was announced sixteen Chinese Communist underground workers in Taiwan surrendered themselves to the government and helped smash a Red espionage ring which aimed at organizing miners in the Chinkwashan district, 10 miles east of Keelung.
Radio Peiping said the Communists offered to resume the stalled Korean armistice talks at the dusty korean village of Pan Mun Jom between Kaesong and Munsan.
October 8. Free China and the Thai community here extended warm greetings, and enthusiastic welcome to 976 Thai soldiers en route home from the Korean battleground.
Egypt announced today it had cancelled the 20-year treaty of 1936 with Britain.
October 9. Britain denounced Egypt's decision to junk the Anglo-Egyptian treaty as illegal and announced her intention to stay in the Suez Canal zone and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan until satisfactory ME defense arrangements are made.
Britain's Defense Ministry announced Anglo-French talks aimed at formation of a common front against Communist-led rebels in Malaya and Indo-China "revealed a close identity of views and interests."
October 10. Free China had a fervent celebration of her National Day, with mass meetings and a parade attended by 200,000 people in Taipei alone.
October 11. Communist dissidents opposed to Mao Tze-tung and Russia proclaimed in Macao that they would fight the Stalin-Mao gang to the very end.
October 13. Dr. Chiang Mon-lin, chairman of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, disclosed that the JCRR fiscal 1952 work sheet would continue pedalling old lines of helping boost agricultural production and meet crying needs of the farming community.
October 14. Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York indicated he favors dropping the atomic bomb on Manchuria if the Reds do not agree to a ceasefire in Korea.
October 15. Liaison officers for the UN and the Communists met at 10 a.m. with all signs pointing toward a quick settlement of the dispute over "ground rules" for reopening cease-fire talks.
The Western powers intended to press forward with their plan to create a Middle East defense command despite Egypt's rejection of an invitation to join.
October 16. A four-engined POAS Skymaster roared down on Sungshan airport this noon to signal the inauguration of the first direct Taipei-Bangkok flights as provided in the Thai-Chinese provisional air agreement signed recently.
October 17. The National Government decided to denounce former premier Wong Wen-hao as a rebel and ordered his arrest.
The US backed up the British in their refusal to let Egypt drive them out of the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan.
October 18. Foreign Minister George Yeh, in a statement issued to night, asked Britain and Iran to reopen their disputed negotiations on the oil issue in a spirit of reconciliation.
October 19. Free China's Legislative Yuan accepted the resignation of its speaker Liu Chien-chun and decided to elect a new president as early as possible.
The UN Security Council shelved the British-Iranian oil dispute indefinitely.
October 20. President Chiang Kai-shek refused to accept Premier Chen Cheng's resignation tendered a few days before.
October 21. US Secretary Dean Acheson reiterated the "Egyptian government can't throw its international obligations overboard."
US Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Republican of Utah, said it was incomprehensible to him why the Chinese National Troops were not being used against the Communists in Korea.
October 22. 40 strong earthquakes in 18 hours caused hundreds of casualties and rendered tens of thousands of people in Taiwan homeless. The hardest hit area was the eastern coastal town of Hualien where about 40 per cent of the houses crumbled down, dikes broke and all the 163,000 residents sought safety in countryside and suburban open lots.
A third Russian A-bomb blast was reported in Russia and a seventh atomic explosion within the continental United States rocked the desert at 6 o'clock in the morning.
October 23. T. Keith Glennan, Commissioner of the US Atomic Energy Commission, said "atomic weapons are now being produced on an industrial basis".
October 25. President Chiang Kai-shek, in a speech made before a mass rally made in front of the Presidential Mansion marking the sixth anniversary of the liberation of Taiwan from the hands of the Japanese, called on the people of Free China to stand fully behind the government in the struggle against Communist and Russian aggression.
French foreign minister Robert Schuman announced that France would submit a proposal for creation of a European federation at the next session of the European council next month.
October 26. General J. Lawton Collins, US army chief of staff, arrived in Taipei from Manila at 12:30 on a brief one-day visit.
Winston Churchill battled back to leadership of the British nation which cast him out six years ago and pledged he would work for a return of better times.
October 27. Genera J. Lawton Collins left Taipei this morning for Tokyo after he assured President Chiang Kai-shek that further US War supplies are en route to make good the American commitment of strengthening the defense of Free China.
Warren Austin, US permanent delegate to the UN, reaffirmed US support of Free China's continued representation in the UN.
October 28. Premier Chen Cheng reiterated government determination to stamp out all possible irregularities in the coming elections of members of the Provincial Provisional Congress.
October 31. Premier Shigeru Yoshida corrected his statement about establishment of an overseas agency in Shanghai and said the Japanese government at present had no intention to resume such relations with Red China.