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1. January 1946
The Toko Line is reopened. She had closed her service during the Sino-Chosen war.

5. January 1946
The region around Hulun Buir is "shaken" by a severe earthquake. Some villages have been completely destroyed.

15. January 1946
Li Daoyuan found in the Taklamakan desert near the Great Wall, the lost city of Loulan. Loulan was first mentioned 176 b.C. in a letter of the Xiongnu-monarch to the emperor of the Han-Dynasty Wen Di. A report from 125 b.C. tells about Loulan as a town of nearly 14.000 inhabitants. The areas of Loulan and Gushi have a walled city and walled suburbs; they lie at the border of the salt marsh.

25. January 1946
EWIL presented its new large aircraft engines in the power range 2,000 to 3,000 hp. This is a liquid-cooled row radial engine with four rows of six cylinders.

versions:
EW-2000-A ...... 2000 hp
EW-2000-B ...... 2500 hp
EW-2000-C ...... 3000 hp

07. February 1946
After years of frozen relationships, the chinese government invites the government of Germany to discuss the improvement of economic cooperation.

Quoted from "parador"

This is a liquid-cooled row radial engine with six rows of four cylinders.

Do you mean four rows of six cylinders? A six-row four layout seems really unusual to me...

May fault, of course i meant four rows of six cylinder

Quoted from "parador"

May fault, of course i meant four rows of six cylinder

Okay, that makes better sense. :)

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07. February 1946
After years of frozen relationships, the chinese government invites the government of Germany to discuss the improvement of economic cooperation.

The German Government has always been ready to discuss means of improving Sino-German economic cooperation. It hopes that normal trading relations can resume now that hostilities are over. If the Chinese Government has specific topics it wishes to open discussions on, they will be evaluated on their individual merits.

18. February 1946 - early morning aboard chinese Recon-Flight

Huizhou... Pinghaizhen... Dongsha...

... are you going to start trouble again with the Philippines?

The ready flight of Fighting Eleven, two Grumman F6Fs, had been scrambled from Basco as soon as the unknown had appeared on the station’s dradis screens. Red Leader and his wingman, Red Two, pushed the throttles of their aircraft to the firewall as they clawed for altitude.

“Red Leader to Base,” the flight leader reported. “Passing three thousand meters now.”

The fighter controller at Basco acknowledged. “Continue on present course. Unknown is ahead and above you, approximately twenty kilometers distant.”

Both pilots suspected that the unknown was Chinese; the course, speed and altitude suggested as much. There was no regular commercial air traffic in this area, and unscheduled flights few and far between – particularly coming from the northwest.

“Passing three thousand five hundred meters now,” Red Leader reported. The rules of engagement were very strict – identify the unknown, ascertain its intentions, and dissuade if from entering Philippine air space. The two Hellcats continued to climb.

The fighter controller continued to monitor the course of the unknown as well as the two Hellcats. “Approximately five kilometers distant at this point, level with you; course unchanged,” he advised Red Leader.

Red Leader let out a small sigh of relief. They were above four thousand meters now, and could maneuver for a high-side intercept. “Let’s get in the sun and get ready to welcome our friends,” he ordered his wingman.

The fighter controller at Basco advised Red Leader that he should be in visual range.

“I see the bogie,” Red Leader replied. The aircraft’s long, thin profile was unmistakable. “Unknown is a Nanchan N2R2; single aircraft.”

“You are cleared for intercept,” the controller advised. “Aircraft is in international airspace. Convince him to turn around.”

“Roger control,” Red Leader acknowledged. He waved to his wingman and pushed his stick down to take station behind the Chinese aircraft.

The crew aboard the bogie seemed to be unaware of the fighters’ approach out of the sun; advising his wingman to take station in the intruder’s ‘six’, Red Leader pulled level with the Nanchan’s cockpit and waved at the Chinese crew, indicating that they should turn around now, and intimating that if they did not that serious consequences would follow.

25. February 1946
A chinese delegation travels via the Trans-Sib-Railroad to Berlin. The delegation consist of executisves of chinese mining companies and steel industry. Also some executives of Tung-Meng, CTMCO and other chinese car manufacturers are part of the delegation.

The pilot of the Chinese reconnaissance aircraft waggled his wings to acknowledge Red Leader’s hand signals and initiated a slow turn to port. Red Leader easily stayed with the bogie, as did Red Two on its ‘six’. The Nanchan reversed course in a graceful arc and settled down on a course back towards Chinese airspace. The two Grummans stayed with their ‘guest’ for twenty minutes before breaking off to return to Basco.

“Did the Chinese think they could get through our defenses undetected?” Red Leader mulled that over in his mind on the flight home. Somehow he doubted that the Chinese really intended to do that – an overflight of Philippine sovereign territory in broad daylight would be suicidal. Probing the Philippine defenses to gauge reactions and determine their limits however would make sense. “I have a feeling we might see more of these incidents” he thought.

Quoted from "parador"

25. February 1946
A chinese delegation travels via the Trans-Sib-Railroad to Berlin. The delegation consist of executisves of chinese mining companies and steel industry. Also some executives of Tung-Meng, CTMCO and other chinese car manufacturers are part of the delegation.

Transradio Press Service, Berlin, Thursday, 7 March 1946

A Chinese trade delegation arrived today to open discussions with officials of the German Government and representatives of the Reich Federation of German Industries. Trade and financial relations between the two nations have been cool for several years now, and the recent hostilities in the Far East have cut ties to a minimum. The arrival of the Chinese mission opens the door to normalisation of commerce and a potential boon to the German economy.

11. March 1946 - HQ South Fleet Zhanjiang

16. March 1946
An EW-357 (registration TA-604) of the Trans Asia Airways crashed in the Sea of Japan, killing all on board.

Quoted from "parador"

16. March 1946
An EW-357 (registration TA-604) of the Trans Asia Airways crashed in the Sea of Japan, killing all on board.

Thinking OOC for the moment...

To which city was this airliner bound? I was not aware that China and Chosen (or Japan for that matter) had resumed normal commercial air service.

I was thinking the same thing. What is a Chinese airliner doing east of Chosen?

... No doubt a spy plane disguised as an airliner...

... and the next thing is that they will be claiming that the plane was shot down either by Chosen or Japan...