Neue Freie Presse
- Primo de Rivera’s desperate struggle
- British marines land at Canton
- The sensational declaration of German industry
The Vienna evening paper leads with a renewed confrontation between Spain’s artillery officers and the dictatorship, including deaths and injuries at Pamplona, then reports British marines landing at Canton after the seizure of British steamers at Wanhsien. Its front-page leader welcomes declarations by German industrial leaders in support of the existing state and constitution, argues over taxation and public spending, and calls for political clarity and a grand coalition. The page also carries its masthead and advertising terms, a Berlin property advertisement, foreign-exchange quotations and the opening of a feuilleton set in Constantinople.
Translation
Masthead and imprint
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Issue line
No. 22263. Vienna, Monday 6 September 1926.
Note on paid notices
Paid announcements contained in the editorial section (Kleine Chronik, local report, theatre news, Economist) are marked with a preceding E.
Advertisement — Allgemeine Grundstuecks-Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin
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Primo de Rivera’s desperate struggle — Telegram from our correspondent, Madrid, 6 September
A renewed demonstration by the artillery officers across the whole country, said to have been suppressed already, shows that matters have begun to move [The next phrase is unreadable.] Despite the state of siege and the apparent agreement between crown and dictatorship, it is believed that the days of the dictatorship are numbered. There is already talk of a closing of ranks among the artillery officers, which in spite of the official reports is held not to be over.
The first bloodshed
The first bloodshed is reported from Pamplona. An officer and several artillery soldiers were killed and two wounded when the envoy of the government, successfully as it happens, recalled the artillery regiment there to obedience.
British marines land at Canton — London, 6 September (telegraph agency)
According to a report from Canton, an English gunboat has landed a detachment of marines at Canton with the task of arresting the strikers who are molesting foreigners. It is reported that the Chinese steamer has been taken over and fitted out for active service. This measure is thought to be a response to the seizure of two British steamers by China at Wanhsien.
Foreign exchange — Vienna, 6 September
With a firm underlying tendency, the Italian lira showed no further rise today against Saturday. Sterling held in Milan at a level of 129 to 131 in fairly lively business. Paris and Brussels were unchanged against sterling at 165 and 175 respectively. Bucharest too was quite quiet and neglected. / Zurich, 6 September (rates at half past eleven in the morning): Paris 15.27, London 25.12, New York 517.34, Belgium 14.33, Italy 19.25, Spain 78.25, Holland 207.57, Berlin 123.15, Vienna 73.15, Stockholm 138.55, Oslo 113.37, Copenhagen 137.50, Sofia 3.75, Prague 15.33, Warsaw 57.50, Budapest 72.47, Belgrade 9.13, Athens 5.93, Constantinople 2.75, Bucharest 2.56, Finland 13.04, Argentina 209.
The sensational declaration of German industry — For the republic and a grand coalition. Vienna, 6 September
The intellectual evolution in Germany is making strong progress. This year the conference of the Reich Association of German Industry has produced declarations whose overriding importance cannot be mistaken. Above all, the speech of Finance Minister Dr. Reinhold has shown once again how outstandingly gifted this still very young departmental head is, and what hope is growing here for Germany. Exactly as in the programmatic statement at the beginning of his career, the finance minister has publicly and with the greatest energy condemned the view that investments and productive works which pay interest can in the long run be met out of the current budget. In Germany too there has been a Breitner practice, the hoarding of revenues beyond the needs of the ordinary budget. Dr. Reinhold expressly rejected this. He further professed — and these words too should be heard very carefully in Austria — the principle that expenditure must adapt itself to revenue and not revenue to expenditure; that is to say, the taxpayer must be treated according to his strength and his capacity, not by the measure of what the state would like to undertake, nor by the aims that arise from the demands of certain power groups. Dr. Reinhold also fought the madness of high tax rates, which with us still stands in full bloom. He gave numerical examples showing that reduced charges, such as the stock exchange tax or the cigarette tax, yield not merely the same but an increased return. He issued earnest warnings to the regional bodies. He said: it makes no sense at all for the state to reduce taxes while the states and municipalities raise them. Dr. Reinhold professed the principle of surcharges on the income tax, and here we are unable to follow him. But he brought this principle into connection with the demand for an energetic reduction of those rates which prevent the economy from flourishing and which manifestly burden enterprises too heavily. He emphasised with particular sharpness that the economy must get used to the fact that the Reich does not have the task of being the banker of the economy. It must not happen that taxes are taken from well-run businesses in order to support badly run and idle competitors. Truly, golden words, which can be overlooked in no country, least of all here in Austria.
The speech of Dr. Silverberg
The further course of the industrialists conference brought, if anything, a further rise in interest. The speech of Dr. Silverberg is important not only because it was delivered by one of the leading men of large-scale industry, by a member of the presiding board of the Reich Association. It amounts to a true sensation because it contains a complete change of intellectual attitude, a change that is most striking precisely in a former collaborator of Stinnes, in a man of heavy industry, in a personality with whom any suspicion of agitatorial intent is impossible from the outset. Director-General Dr. Silverberg said literally: German entrepreneurship stands without reservation on the ground of affirming the state. One or another may still be more or less influenced by resentments of a more personal kind. All serious, dutiful people have placed themselves on the ground of the state as it is today and of the Reich constitution. With that, all impulses of a blinkered reaction are thrown aside, a reaction that still stands colour-blind before political necessities, even though Dr. Silverberg finds individual provisions of the Reich constitution unclear and naturally opposes those who wish to reach economically revolutionary aims through the constitution. He said literally: we shall not let ourselves be pushed away from our attitude toward the state and upon the state; we shall not let ourselves be robbed of the attitude toward the state that was won after severe inner struggles and is all the firmer for that. German entrepreneurship no longer wishes to stand aside when it is a question of building the house for the German people, and realistic, clear-thinking businessmen want clarity and realism in politics too.
The demand for a grand coalition
This drive toward the concrete and toward political clarity also shows itself in the demand for the grand coalition. We cannot refrain from reporting once more, in their full extent, the words of the leader of German industry. He gave a survey of the relationship between industrial entrepreneurship and the workers, and already on this occasion the warmth was striking with which he praised the much-attacked late Reich President Ebert, exactly as he praised the head of the trade unions, Legien, who earned such great merit in leading the revolutionary movement away from the workers and soldiers councils back to an orderly administration of the state. Too late — this self-confession of Dr. Silverberg had a particularly strong effect in Dresden — has entrepreneurship resolved to recognise in the trade unions the representation of the workers and to strengthen the backs of their leaders against their own friends. It cannot be denied, Dr. Silverberg argued further, that a change of minds has taken place within German entrepreneurship. To describe this is not possible without ...
Feuilleton — The Sheikh. Three pictures. By Josef Hans Lazar
It was at a time that resembled our own in some points. Then too there had been a storm against the newest Turkey and its lord and master. Then too the storm had ebbed away, between the roughly hewn, crudely set beams of the three-legged gallows. Only those who then hung a little above the good firm earth beneath the gallows peaks did not wear, as in Smyrna, patent-leather shoes, fashionable trousers with sharp creases, cutaway coats and carefully knotted neckties beneath the shirt of the condemned. It was at the time of the last Kurdish uprising in the eastern vilayets, and those who then dangled under the gallows in the rough wind of the Kurdish mountains were rough, coarse fellows, tanned by weather, wind and fighting, in baggy trousers and opanken, with broad, colourful, many-wound sashes, with black or grey, wild and wind-tousled beards, and without exception with broad, mighty turbans: sheikhs, sherifs, dervishes and emirs, band and tribal chieftains, fanatics of faith, of wildness and of adventure, rebels by birth, rebels by profession, and incidentally magicians, conjurers of spirits, miracle workers and prophets. But the broad, mighty turbans were at that time a mark. They were hunted for. Mistrustfully the authorities kept them under sharp and stern eyes. It was in Constantinople, on that main thoroughfare of Pera which is called the Grande Rue de Pera, in the first evening hours when the arc lamps dangle glaringly from their wires, when the grey paving cubes are polished and gleaming from thousands of racing wheels. On this evening it seemed as though all the laws of the gravity of everyday life had been overturned. The crowd streamed, apparently without order and yet drawn by something, back and forth, trickled apart and flowed together again like sound figures on a glass plate whose edge is stroked by a bow. The rows and columns of racing machines came to a standstill; full of impatience and unrest the engines hammered against the pavement. Two concentric circles of people drove across the street. The outer circle, dark with light and coloured patches, more irregular and broader, was the curious crowd; the inner one, lead-grey with scarlet stripes and gleaming silver points, more regular and narrower, was the police. The middle appeared at first to be empty. Only a sharp and strained look showed that in this emptiness there was after all a core ...
Context
How this front page is organised
News is only part of the recovered page. The masthead, sales and advertising information, a property advertisement and a long exchange-rate table occupy substantial space before and between the articles. Keeping those blocks visible preserves the commercial texture of the issue instead of presenting the page as a modern list of stories.
What the paper argues
The leader treats statements at the German industrialists’ conference as evidence of a change in political attitude. It approves explicit support for the state and constitution and the recognition of trade unions, while also using the occasion to argue against high tax rates and state support for badly run firms. These are the newspaper’s positions, not independent findings of this edition.
Reading limits
The source is machine OCR of a Fraktur page laid out in columns. Damaged names and phrases remain, the opening of one advertisement is missing, and both the leader and the feuilleton stop where the front page ends. The translation marks those boundaries and does not supply text that was not recovered.