[X] Establish the Ordnance Office - Developing an arms industry from scratch will take time and effort. An Ordnance Office will allow us to delegate some of that work to specialists. (Constant Investment.)
[X] Establish the Carabinieri Oversight Office - No one really keeps an eye on the paramilitary police force that keeps watch over the nation. If the force is to be reformed and re-established in a new role, then oversight is needed at the very least. (Constant Investment.)
[X] Production Licensing: Rifle - Build a factory to produce a licensed version of a currently available rifle design. Write in the weapon of choice. (6 Months Remain) ☑☑◻◻
[X] Establish a Veterinary Oversight Office - Bringing hundreds of horses into Reewiin and establishing breeding programs will require extensive oversight, administrative effort, and coordination. (Constant Investment.)
[X] Production Licencing: Ammunition - Buy the tooling for one calibre of ammunition currently in service or soon to be in service. (3 Months Remain) ☑◻
[X] Doctrinal Reform: Army Drill - Dispatch the Army Training Detachment to spend time with each Carabinieri force, improving and formalising aspects of their training methods. These troops will be better suited as a wartime reserve and as partisans. (6 Months Remain) ☑◻◻
[X] Enlarge the NCO Cadre - Reewiin lacks an effective base of experienced sergeants and corporals. Improving this will improve the Army overall. Choose one:
[X] Increase Recruitment (12 Months remain) ◻◻◻◻
[X] Write-in: Promote promising, experienced enlisted soldiers, especially those overlooked due to not being Somali.
[X] Equine Acquisition: Requisition Locally - Requisition local Borana horses from the cavalry and agriculture for breeding stock. (3 Months Remain) ◻
Kismayo-Turkana Line:
Progress, Kismayo-Marsabit: 57.5% (Est. completion June 1932)
Progress, Marsabit-Turkana: 18% (Est. completion October 1933)
Arisaka Rifles, Orders, and Production:
Progress, Rifle Deliveries: 15% (Est. completion June 1932)
Progress, Rifle Factory: None
Berlin: Nearly 200 communists arrested for illegal demonstrations.
Philadelphia: Aviatrix Amelia Earhart sets world altitude record: 5,613 metres!
Tokyo: Osachi Hamaguchi resigns as Prime Minister, replaced by Wakatsuki Reijirō.
Düsseldorf: Vampire of Düsseldorf found guilty in trial, to be executed.
Madrid: 49 of 50 municipalities vote against monarchy. King Alfonso XIII flees country. Revolutionary Niceto Alcalá-Zamora proclaimed prime minister of provisional government.
Harlan: Deputy Sheriff shot and killed in ongoing miner strike
Monaco: Louis Chiron wins Monaco Grand Prix in Bugatti motorcar.
Julfa: Thousands dead as Zangezur region hit by earthquake.
Rio de Janeiro: Storage facility for aeroplane bomb explodes, at least 50 dead.
The Chikuma, the name ship of a Japanese light cruiser class, has served with the Imperial Japanese Navy for the last twenty years. Now, in the twilight of her life, the IJN has offered her to Reewiin at a marked discount.
The Chikuma has spent the last seven years as a stationary training ship, and it is unlikely she will be of use as much more to Reewiin. However, as Reewiin's navy currently consists of six lake boats used by the carabinieri, this would still be a great boon.
Japan is offering Reewiin the ship almost for free; some small concessions would be made as part of the deal, including a case of Type 38's from the first run of Reewiin Arisaka rifles for testing. Otherwise, this is a chance for Reewiin to try something new with limited risk.
New York: Empire State Building tallest building in world at 443 meters.
Istanbul: President Mustafa Kemal undefeated in elections.
Harlan: Striking miners ambush trucks. Four dead in gun battle. National Guard deployed to maintain peace.
Paris: Paris Colonial Exposition opens.
Madrid: Riot as monarchists, republicans clash. Convents hit by arson attacks. Civil Guard deployed.
Vienna: Creditanstalt bank folds, Austrian currency weakened.
Paris: National Assembly elects Paul Doumer president.
Lausanne: Berlin selected for 1936 summer Olympics.
Geneva: ILO report: unemployment doubled, 20 million without work worldwide!
Oslo: Johan Ludwig Mowinckel resigns as prime minister after fat-affair, Farmer's Party enters government under Peder Kolstad.
Monza: Giuseppe Campari, Tazio Nuvolari win Italian Grand Prix for Alfa Romero.
Tokyo: Nearly 3,000 railway workers strike.
Hagen: 3 dead after communists, National Socialists clash.
Money is in short supply in the capital and across the country. Wharves have no employment for hundreds of workers as ship construction comes to a halt. Large groups of sailors have been seen wandering the city streets as their ships are stuck in port with no cargo. Banks are refusing loans, and the government credit line is drying up.
The Defence Council has not escaped these woes: the junior staff has shrunk significantly, and work has slowed in their absence. Seemingly every proposal is met with politicians demanding to know where the money will come from before they can even be explained.
Brussels: Julius Renkin appointed prime minister of Belgium.
Rome: Catholic lay organisations banned after supposed plot against Mussolini.
Luxembourg: Party of the Right largest party after partial election.
Caracas: Juan Bautista Pérez resigns as president of Venezuela, Pedro Itriago Chacín interim president.
Berlin: Austerity measures spark riots across Germany. Police fire on reds.
Saint-Nazaire: 500 drown as tour boat Saint-Philbert sinks.
London: Bank of England loans 150,000,000 schillings to Austria.
Sofia: Popular Bloc coalition wins parliamentary elections.
Washington: President Hoover proposes suspension of Great War debt payments. France, Italy accepts.
London: Amendment dispute on land tax bill nearly defeats Labour Party.
Rome: 124 convicted, 54 found innocent, in mass trial against mafia.
Madrid: Socialists, Republicans take majority of votes in parliamentary elections. Ramón Franco dismissed from air force for anarchist plot.