World newspaper front pages — Friday, 10 September 1926

Friday, 10 September 1926

5 newspaper front pages from Friday, 10 September 1926, with translations and context.

Evening Star

Washington, D.C. (United States) · English

Germany Pledges Self to Arbitrate All Future Issues
Briand Places France on Record Against War

The Washington evening paper leads on Geneva, where Germany was received into the League of Nations amid scenes the correspondent calls unexampled since the armistice.

The Montgomery Advertiser

Montgomery (United States) · English

Desolation and Suffering Left in Wake of Floods Sweeping Indiana and Illinois
Inhabitants of Jacksonville Are Driven to Second Story as Power Dam Breaks

The Montgomery paper gives its front page to floods in the central United States, the third to sweep the region in 10 days.

Le Figaro

Paris (France) · French

Toward a mobile administration
The Reich delegation arrived in Geneva yesterday evening

Le Figaro opens with a case for a mobile administration: Lucien Romier writes that the cabinet meeting of the day will probably abolish about a hundred sub-prefectures, roughly one per department, and that the sub-prefect has become mainly an electoral agent, the symbol of an adm…

L’Écho d’Alger

Algiers (Algeria) · French

The council is busy with administrative economies
The mayor of Brive resigns

The Algiers daily reads Paris.

L’Écho annamite

Saigon (present-day Vietnam) · French

The principles of a sound native policy
Seventh Assembly of the League of Nations

The Saigon daily devotes its front page to what it calls the principles of a sound native policy, taking as its occasion the raising of 3 Chinese priests to the episcopate.