24 Oct 1938
China
China
- Japanese troops captured Huangpo, Anhui, China and began to march toward the northern border of Wuhan, Hubei, China. In the same province, elements of the Japanese 2nd Army Group captured the city of Ma. ww2dbase [Battle of Wuhan | Huangpo, Anhui | CPC]
- Japanese aircraft sank Chinese gunboat Zhongshan. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Joachim von Ribbentrop met with Polish ambassador Józef Lipski at Berchtesgaden in southern Germany. During the meeting, he noted that Danzig was German and Germany wanted to see it back within German borders. He also noted that Germany wanted to build a highway and a railway through western Poland to connect East Prussia with the main German territory, and that Germany would like to have Poland join the Anti-Comintern Pact. ww2dbase [The Danzig Crisis | Berchtesgaden, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
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