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April 20th, 1936: After much debate, the question of artillery calibers to be used within the Lithuanian Army's light and field artillery units has been settled. Over the next five years, the mix of 75-mm, 76-mm and 77-mm weapons in the Army's inventory will be phased out for weapons manufactured to fire 75-mm shells of German manufacture. All older weapons still judged serviceable will be refurbished to fire the new caliber, and transferred to National Guard units. All similar 100-mm, 105-mm an...
April 10th, 1936: A particularly vexing question confronting the Lithuanian Armed Forces Artillery Commission, is the subject of artillery carriages. The majority of artillery pieces regardless of their caliber and shell weights are mounted on gun carriages, which are now nearly two decades old in terms of their structural design. Artillery actions during the June Insurrection and the following Wilno Crisis of 1935, revealed problems with said carriages. Much of the fighting took place in either...
April 7th, 1936: The Special Committee on Military Affairs, after some debate and perliminary studies from the air, naval and army general staffs has placed a inital report before the Seimas for consideration. Several points have been released through parlimentary sources to reporters. 1) The establishment of a combined services education academy is essential to military development of Lithuania, and the smooth intergration of the various armed services into a coherent whole. Further the adminis...
March 24th, 1936: Field Marshal Zukauskas, has formally requested a meeting with the military attaches of the German and French governments. The meeting is to discuss the exchange of Lithuanian personel for attachment to German and French military schools and field or experimental tactical units. The purpose of the attachment is to aid in the modernizing of the Lithuanian Republican Armed Services, which are seen to be lagging behind in many areas with regards to contemporay military trends. A f...
March 22nd, 1936: Following discussions with the Russian Military Attache to the Lithuanian government, a provisional agreement to allow Lithuanian Armed Forces personel to train with Russian Federation units has been enacted. The following has been agreed to by the Lithuanian and Russian governments. 1) The transfer of one-hundred and sixty Lithuanian Army junior officers and warrant officers and selected non-commissioned officers to service in selected Russian units to aquire experience with m...
March 20th, 1936: Field Marshal Silvestras Žukauskas sighed and rubbed his eyes, it was getting late, it felt like he'd only made a slight dent in the paperwork that cluttered his desk. Too much to due, and not enough people to do it, or rather not enough qualified people. The various expansions to the Lithuanian army, navy and air force, had left the administrative apparatus of the ministry of defense hard pressed to keep up. The problem was made worse by the fact that the Lithuanian armed forc...
March 16th, 1936: Field Marshal Silvestras Žukauskas looked at Vice-Admiral Antanas Kaskelis skeptically, for several minutes. Kaskelis, looked back, as he puffed quietly on his pipe, his black naval uniform, trimmed with gold braid and white piping, reminded the field marshal of a blot of ink on a white table cloth, given the tan woods and gentle ivory wall paint that decorated his office. "Antanas, you will agree that this proposal by the Naval General Staff, is a bit ambitious." "I agree, but...
March 2, 1936: The Lithuanian Seimas passed the Lithuanian National Airways Act, after bitterly partisan and devisive political debate. The democratic coalition of President Grinius, passed the act, by a slender majority within the Parliment. Opposition parties, particularly the nationalistic conservatives spoke against accepting the French mediated offer that would make the Lietuvos Avialinijos a reality. The conservatives, felt that while the Lithuanian National Aircraft Factory was in urgent ...
Feb 18th, 1936: Field Marshal Silvestras Žukauskas looked blandly across the table, at Vice-Admiral Antanas Kaskelis, as the naval officer finished reading the memo from the ministry of foreign affairs. Kaskelis fiddled with his pipe for a few minutes, to give himself time to think. "I don't see how this concerns us, Silvestras. It seems straightforward enough." "Actually it does, concern the military after a fashion, Antanas. Admittedly, the formation of a Lithuanian national airline, doesn't s...
Febuary 2nd, 1936: Field Marshal Silvestras Žukauskas and General Kazim Orbay, met today to finalize arrangements with regards to the Stockholm Protocal. Efforts by the Lithuanian and League of Nations Wilno Taskforce to implement the protocal, have been marked by reasonable success concerning it's 2nd (dismantling the Antanas, Adomas, Amantas defensive lines), 3rd (disbanding all units civil constabluary or military of the Wilno Republic, the assumption of all police duties by the Wilno Civil W...
January 30th, 1936: Lithuanian Naval Chief, Vice-Admiral Kaskelis offically oversees the opening of the Lithuanian Navy's new Naval Air Station in Palanga. The arrival of first eight Dutch constructed Fokker Fokker T-VIII W twin engined floatplanes, begining in December 1935, have finally premitted the air station's activation. The first cadres of trained pilots and observers, have begun to organize themselves into provisional service flights and depot units while the possiblity of forming the l...
January 25th, 1936: The Seimas is faced with two further proposals on the parlimentary agenda, this month. Consideration is being given to the passage of a Construction and Materials Act, which will grant subsidies to various Lithuanian companies dealing with construction services or with the production of construction materials for construction projects. The second proposal is similar act to cover the the timber industry, in particular granting subsidies and governmental regulation/direction of...
Lithuania was prone to occassional military lead coups, historically this occured at least two or three times during the 1920s and 1930s. Kazy Grinius, faced at least two during his tenure as president of lithuania, the 1925-27 revolts of the military leaders, cost him his presidency, and lead to Antanas Smetona, becoming president in his place. So in this instance, President Grinius, is exercising a bit of caution, and trying to prevent that particular event from happening again. The Special Co...
January 20th, 1936: Field Marshal Silvestras Žukauskas has authorized the formation of a special committee (with wide powers of investigation) within the Lithuanian Armed Forces, with a view to investigating allegations concerning "political disloyalty" within the established officer corps. This announcement has heralded concern within the military that some sort of "witch-hunt' will be directed at certain officers, particularly those not holding view considered acceptable to the Grinius regime....
January 13th, 1936: Major-General Jonas Cernius, looked hard at the bald headed and moustached Major-General Mikas Reklaitis, who sat ramrod straight in his chair, opposite Cernius and his collegues, Brigadier-Generals Kazys Musteikis and Kazys Skucas and Major-General Jonas Sutkus. "You took a risk, with the Vice-Admiral, General Reklaitis. A risk, I'm not at all advised was worth the risk." Cernius, began. Reklaitis, cut him off. "I think it was, we need to know, where the Navy will stand when...
Congrats, Brock, (and to Lady L) as well, I wish you both all the best.
This wikipedia link might help, it covers the then reigning Geneva Convention's main features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention The Wilno delegates (who are not part of either of the emigre governments-in-exile, but respected individuals, community leaders, etc, who have the confidence of the disputed area's Polish-Lithuanian population.) and the Lithuanian Government of the Grinius regime are determined to see justice done, regarding irregularities over land an property seiz...
January 13th, 1936: The Republic of Lithuania, formally requests that the League of Nations's commission the formation of a Wilno-Lithuanian Insurrection War Crimes Tribunal as per Article/Provision 5 of the 1935 Stockholm Protocal. 5) An independent Wilno-Lithuanian Insurrection War Crimes Tribunal to be organized and overseen by the League of Nations, with selected representative delegations from Lithuania and Wilno. This war crimes tribunal to have complete powers of investigation and prosecu...
January 12th, 1936: Following two days of fierce and often violently partisan debate, the Seimas, authorised the Lithuanian government to begin effecting the provisions of the previously agreed to Stockholm Protocal, following continued discussings with Wilno regional delegates. The debates threatened at several points to nearly tear, President Kazys Grinius's fragile democratic coalition government apart. Grinius's relations with the opposition parties, have also markedly worstened. 1935 Stockh...
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