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Show Many Changes Registered in Map of World in 1937 Effected by Ballots, Edicts, Treaties and Armies. Washington, D. C Outstanding changes registered during 1937 on the map of the world and in the relationships re-lationships of nations, owing to ballots, bal-lots, edicts, treaties and force of arms, are outlined in a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "Rise of the first corporative type of state in the Western Hemisphere, by the edict of the president of Brazil; Bra-zil; passing the large areas of China under control of the Japanese army; and the setting up of a new democratized demo-cratized form of government for India's 350 million inhabitants were the most far-reaching changes of the year," says the bulletin. "In Spain the war between the insurgents and the government has continued through the year with a steady loss of ground by the government. gov-ernment. Malaga in the southeast fell in April. In the northeast Bilbao Bil-bao fell in June, Santander in August, Au-gust, and Gijon (last of the government govern-ment strongholds in the region) in October. As the end of year approached, ap-proached, the capital of Spain had been moved from Valencia to Bar- A GOOD SCORE l' . j l ; ff L..:...:iVJ Connie Mack, veteran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, who recently re-cently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. The veteran baseball leader observed his birthday by "getting plans ready for next season," sea-son," when he hopes to be in the thick of the pennant fight. celona, and headquarters of the insurgents, in-surgents, from Burgos to Salamanca. Salaman-ca. Considerably more than half of Spain was in the hands of the insurgents. "Two kings were formally placed on their thrones during the year. In May, George VI was crowned and anointed as king of Great Britain Brit-ain and the Dominions, Emperor of India. In July, Farouk was 'invested' 'invest-ed' as king of Egypt but was not crowned. "Plans for the division of Palestine Pales-tine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Great Britain retaining direct control of Jerusalem and other oth-er strategic places, were brought forward during the year by a British commission, and even received re-ceived the approval of the League of Nations mandates commission. But the announcement of the scheme caused such an outburst of criticism and rioting in Palestine that further steps have been delayed. de-layed. New Irish Constitution. "A new constitution, adopted for Ireland by a general vote of the citizens, July 1, created the "Republic "Re-public of Eire,' headed by a president presi-dent elected for seven years. The constitution is concerned only with internal affairs. "Final agreement on the boundary bound-ary between Colombia and Panama, parts of which had been in dispute dis-pute for more than 30 years, was reached by an exchange of notes between the two countries early in December. "A pact was signed December 10 in San Jose, Costa Rica, by representatives repre-sentatives of Nicaragua and Honduras Hon-duras pledging the two countries to settle peacefully the boundary dispute which threatened earlier in the year to lead to hostilities. "Two changes occurred in the membership of the League of Nations. Na-tions. Paraguay withdrew February Febru-ary 24, after having given two years notice of her intention to do so. Egypt was admitted May 26. Italy gave notice December 11 of intention to withdraw. Withdrawal becomes complete two years after filing notice. "The new constitution for Brazil, proclaimed by presidential edict November 10 (and subject to plebiscite pleb-iscite later) strengthens the central government at the expense of the states. The president is to serve six years. "Under the new constitution in India, which went into effect April 1, the eleven provinces and more than 600 native states send delegates dele-gates to a congress or parliament of two houses which legislates on federal matters for all India. ' Hostilities in China. "The hostilities which have led to the occupation of hundreds of thousands of square miles of Chinese Chi-nese territory by Japan , and the loss of scores of thousands of Chinese Chi-nese lives, began near Peiping, July 7, when shots were exchanged by Chinese and Japanese soldiers. Shanghai, 600 miles to the south, was attacked by Japanese forces August 13. Fighting has continued on both fronts, although war has never been declared. "In the north, Japanese armies have conquered all of the provinces of Chahar, Suiyuan, and Hopei, and large parts of Shansi and Shantung. Farther south they have taken possession pos-session of China's metropolis, Shanghai, and its capital, Nanking, and a large area of the Yangtze valley val-ley between the two cities. As the year drew to a close Japanese forces were advancing farther up the Yangtze toward Hankow. "On October 29, a new 'Inner Mongolian nation,' consisting of the former Chinese provinces of Suiyuan and Chahar, was set up under Japanese Jap-anese auspices. The new state is headed by Prince Teh, Mongol chieftain, under protection of the Japanese army. "Organization of a 'provisional government of all China' was announced an-nounced under Japanese auspices in Peiping December 14. Executive, legislative and judicial councils composed of Chinese members were set up and the former Chinese flag of five colored bars was raised." |