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July 2nd: The Republic of Kalpia continues to thrives and grow. The masses are put back to work, and, due to it's immense natural resources and location as a central hub of trade on the Peninsula, sees growth unfettered by nations involved in The Terrible War. The Kalpian Parliament, after meeting and discussing twenty-four hours prior, decide to outlaw the Kalpian Socialist Union. The people, those who supported the socialist policies of the KSU, were incensed. Along the "Kalpian Arm," such as in Brimburg, several minor politicians climb to their soapbox to discuss the unconstitutional banning of a political party.
July 4th: The Grand Survaek Empire reopens the Royal Sajjir Academy. The Academy, having stood for millennia before the Terrible War, has returned to being a great place of learning. It immediately begins the admissions process, receiving applications from nations such as Mille-Sessau, Veria, Laevatia and even as far north as the Chaegon Empire and Republic of Kalpia.
Foedinei coast, near where the Sajjir Royal Academy sits, 1920
July 7th: The Saiyako Automotive Industries is nationalized by the Imperial Republic of Fuso. The premier automobile manufacturer in the nation. Owning several factories itself, the companies owner Shimazu Tadayoshi reported himself honored to be so valued to the government.
July 8th: The Empire of Vornehm unveils their new 85mm mortar. A considerable step up from their 73mm war called the chucker, it's seven pounds heavier and requires a full three man time. In testing however, it's range is thirty percent further and it's explosive capabilities are much larger. Similarly, the first Gewehr-20 rifles start rolling off the assembly lines and sent to the Vornehm Imperial Army armories to be assigned to local garrisons.
Vornehm 85mm mortar prototype
July 9th: The Republic of Kalpia begin testing new designs for a high speed armored car capable of sustaining infantry assaults and breakthroughs. The prototype put the armored car designers of the Nomeo Automotive Industries in awe. The prototype designer used high grade petrol to fuel the six cylinder engine, and during its test trials the engine caught fire. The test driver escaped, but the fire burned most of the car to the ground. After the burnt out wreck was analyzed, an explosive charge was set underneath it to remove any evidence of it's existence.
Wreckage of the Kalpian armored car prototype
July 10th: Chief Designer Nenad Unkovic of the Osladian Empire had been heralded as the savior of an empire for his design of the O-26 tank that nearly pushed the Free Boletarian Army out of the homelands. His new found success led him to become what Osladians called the father of new warfare for his insistence that armored vehicles could push through enemy formation and destroy them. With success at his back, Nenad began drinking. When not designing new weapons of war (most of which were failures anyway), he had a drink in his hand. For Nenad, business and pleasure were one and the same. Many of his colleagues often alleged he was drunk at the state bureau, and others still said when drunk enough, he would dispel state secrets to anyone in ear shot. On the 10th of July, when Nenad did not arrive to work, his colleagues immediately alerted the municipalities.
They searched his home and there too he was absent. He was found in a ditch just outside of his neighborhood. Alive, but hungover. He was apprehended for questioning, and that was when things turned south for Nenad Unkovic. Fearful of his life, he confessed. So drunk was he, that he admitted he'd told several seemingly overly interested men (and one very masculine looking woman) about an upcoming design: an armored vehicle much smaller than the O-26, but faster. A two-man crew instead of a five man one. When asked the official government designation of the prototype, Nenad could not answer. Even at the hands of the DSSS, he said the bureau had never named the project. When asked on the whereabouts of the data he'd left the office with, he said he simply lost it. They dragged him out into the yard and Nenad got to see what it looked like from the other side of a Dragomov M96.
July 14th: Formal training begins for the pilots of the Boletarian Air Force. While unremarkable from the outside, the force was undergoing intense modernization and onlookers watched from hills as pilots took off in their Osika Widow-1 trainers, taking it through the paces to prepare themselves for flying the quicker, more robust Strzelec-1F fighter.
Boletarian pilots train in the Widok-1, here shown learning how to fly in formation.
July 17th: The Empire of Zellonia negotiates a deal to produce 500 of the Republic of Kalpia's armored car model Athihk K.18-II. This version has replaced the front facing 7.7mm machine gun with a 20mm gun capable of eight rounds per minute, with the machine gun being moved to a rear mount. Production immediately begins on the model, now called the Zellik Model II by the Royal Zellonian Army.
Athihk K.18-II, the upgunned version features a front facing 20mm gun seen here with Zellonian Royal Army camoflauge
July 21st: An explosion rocked the Satarino Munitions Factory in the Korenian Republic. The destruction of Herada's primary ammunition manufacturer forced the return of Minister Bradel, who used the explosion as a tool to implement martial law. A pair of Oslaian O-26 tanks parked outside the front of the Parliament Building turned their turrets on the gathered crowd there, threatening them with death. Korenian soldiers marched the streets, and at seven-thirty in the evening martial law began. Anyone outside after such time was accused of dissidence and sedition and rounded up for questioning.
A photograph taken in East Herada, Korenian Republic, July 21st, 1920
Month's Losses (July, 1920)
- Second Boletarian Republic
- 3 Novice Pilots
- 3 Light Trainers (Osika Widow-1 | 3 Crash Landings)
LEDGERS NEEDED
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-- The Grey Warden
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