APE MAN’S SKULL DISCOVERED;
MAY BRIDGE EVOLUTION GAP!
TAPS ON PIPE SPUR
MINE RESCUERS
Apartment to Cost
$5,000,000 Going Up
Soon in Northwest
The Evening Star of September 28, 1926 reported the discovery of a complete prehistoric skull in Java, recalling Dubois’s earlier discoveries and the controversy surrounding them. Its mine-rescue account described blocked passages, four approaches to the trapped men, and differing expectations about the time still needed. In Washington, it reported Harry Wardman’s announcement of a $5,000,000 residential complex with more than 3,000 rooms in the northwest.
Wisconsin Voters to Express Wishes on Dry Law Change
Liberty Bonds Traced to Bank of Harry Daugherty's Brother
Rescuers Spurred by Signs of Life from Mine Depths
The Montgomery Advertiser of September 28, 1926 reported three unresolved stories. In Wisconsin, the court rejected an attempt to block an advisory referendum on asking Congress to permit 2.75 percent beer. In the Daugherty–Miller conspiracy trial, testimony traced Liberty bonds and their sale proceeds along the government's alleged bribery trail. At Ironwood's mine, a miner who made a dangerous descent heard sounds that gave him hope for 43 trapped men, despite unanswered signals on water pipes.
The September 28, 1926 London Evening Advertiser reported excitement over a supposedly complete prehistoric skull from Java, scientists’ efforts to obtain more information, and a reported prohibition on exporting the specimen. A local educator challenged Premier Ferguson’s proposal to encourage school dancing, linking social pressures to academic failure and parents’ expenses. Brescia Hall’s formal opening brought a large congregation, ceremonial music and a sermon on guiding young women into the Catholic centennial celebrations.
The Vossische Zeitung of September 28, 1926 reported Poincaré’s willingness to cooperate with Germany while insisting on treaty rights, disarmament and reparations, and linking French debt payments to reconstruction burdens. Its discussion of private coalition talks in Prussia described the possibility of the German People’s Party joining the government in return for portfolios without requiring the German Nationalists’ participation. Emil Ludwig used Gustav Freytag’s recollections to question Crown Prince Friedrich’s liberal reputation, setting his parliamentary aspirations alongside his ambitions for the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Le Figaro’s three columns connect national recovery with the authority and resources needed to sustain it. Henri Vonoven welcomes Poincaré’s administrative economies and plans for metropolitan and colonial development, while awaiting a definite monetary policy. Alfred Mallet examines the British coal dispute through wages, hours and bargaining arrangements, then presents it as a European contest between trade unionism and conservatism. A. Thomazi assesses fleet renewal and argues that rising shipbuilding costs require larger annual appropriations.
Striking British miners’ capacity to resist is weakening
Restrictions on trade union activity in Russia
The Neue Freie Presse of September 28, 1926 presented a deposed Greek ruler’s defense of his authority alongside two reports on organized labour. Pangalos invoked parliamentary support, presidential recognition and a claimed popular mandate, then blamed betrayal for his fall. A London telegram reported Cook’s readiness for compromise and resignation amid criticism of the miners’ leadership. A Moscow dispatch described rules confining union demands in concession enterprises to contractual and legal rights while requiring attention to the businesses’ survival.
Mr. Poincaré delivers a major speech at Bar-le-Duc on the Government’s work to restore the public finances
The Italo-Spanish agreement
L’Écho d’Alger attacked Viollette’s handling of agricultural credit, accusing his inner circle of secrecy, describing settler opposition as forcing him to narrow his plans, and crediting Algerian parliamentarians with securing discount facilities. Poincaré defended new taxes as essential to avert financial collapse and challenged the supposed advantages of selling state monopolies. A Tangier dispatch relayed British press concern that a proposed Italian-Spanish naval demonstration could strengthen Spain’s demands and unsettle the international zone.
La Tribune de Madagascar’s September 28, 1926 issue featured arguments about housing costs and administrative capacity alongside a dispute over European diplomatic reporting. The housing editorial invoked French legislative intervention when tenants faced unaffordable demands. Another editorial argued that unexpected urban growth made two services too much for one administrator, while insisting that a solution remained possible. A brief report relayed a Paris-Midi correspondent’s allegation that a German nationalist journalist had distorted Stresemann’s speech.
L’Écho annamite of 28 September 1926 brought together political restraint, financial retrenchment and diplomatic optimism. Truong-Van-Ben and Nguyen Phan-Long declined to present a programme, invoking the futility of promises whose fulfilment lay beyond the makers’ goodwill or wishes. A French report described divided departmental responses to administrative cuts alongside shared praise for Briand’s Geneva work. Stresemann argued that rapprochement with France could secure European peace and gain public backing despite objections from technical experts, military men and financiers.
The Prager Tagblatt of September 28, 1926 examined the financial and political strains surrounding reconciliation between France and Germany. Its editorial challenged confidence in Poincaré’s financial rehabilitation and presented American lending as central to the proposed bargain. A Paris report described his defense of austerity and insistence on French innocence in the war. A London report recounted Baldwin’s attack on the mine owners and his claim that the government could compel neither side to settle the coal dispute.
The Journal de Genève of 28 September 1926 defended Poincaré’s resolve against mayors protesting administrative and judicial closures, presenting their demands as a threat to reform. A Swiss editorial set out a wheat-supply initiative combining reserves and producer support with opposition to an import monopoly, then urged a NO vote on the monopoly proposal. A prison account recounted an unnamed foreigner’s ordeal under the Soviet authorities, including the wait for execution, overcrowding, consular relief and the contrast he drew with prisons shown to visiting delegations.
Politika’s September 28, 1926 issue discussed depositor protection and artillery officers’ resistance to Primo de Rivera. The financial column surveyed state-guaranteed deposits and restrictions on savings banks, arguing that special safeguards must also reach joint-stock banks because they attract most deposits. The Segovia report used the promise of a hidden secret to draw its narrator toward the town and described its Artillery Academy as the soul of the resistance.
Western Norwegian police chiefs on the effects of prohibition.
Aftenposten’s 28 September 1926 issue presents a shipping industry regaining confidence as coal transport and the grain season lift demand for ships, while Norwegian shipyards face dwindling work. An editorial challenges the claim that royal licensing would preserve spirits sales indefinitely after repeal, arguing that local opposition strong enough to close every outlet would bring renewed national prohibition. A Bergen police report describes quieter professional smuggling but continuing small sales by merchant sailors to regular customers.
Leidsch Dagblad’s 28 September 1926 reports covered international negotiations and financial uncertainty alongside everyday life in Leiden. The disarmament article described the division between preparatory military advice and the commission’s final responsibility, alongside American preferences for regional land-armament treaties and attention to ship types outside the Washington agreement. City news welcomed the mayor home from hospital and enthusiastically described Van Luyken’s refurbished gramophone shop, its listening demonstrations and electrical recordings, before mentioning a monument collection. The Poincaré report presented his argument that cooperation among parties and acceptance of heavy sacrifices were necessary to curb the franc’s fall.
Le Petit Matin linked hopes for peace with diplomatic work in Geneva and Berlin. Marcel Huart praised de Jouvenel and Paul Boncour as expressing France’s goodwill and devotion to justice and fraternity. A Geneva dispatch described delegates extending their stays for an important disarmament preparatory meeting and Spain’s wish to keep cooperating. Another dispatch announced forthcoming Franco-German talks based on the Thoiry understandings, with Loucheur expected in Berlin on October 6 for three days.
Wu Still Requests Delay in Fengtian and Shandong Reinforcements
The Commercial Press
The September 28, 1926 Shibao carried reports on military command alongside an appeal to book buyers. Garrison troops were told to register for reorganization or await further orders at Wang Huaiqing's residence. Wu Peifu claimed sufficient manpower and requested a naval attack on Guangdong, while a separate proposal would put Li Jinglin in command of reinforcements for Hubei. The Commercial Press advertised anniversary gift items at bargain prices and reference books for everyday use, urging readers to act before the month's end.
Two notices concerned Beijing's entertainment and reading markets. The First Stage and Deji Trading Company announced a temporary halt to film screenings because new and unusual films had not reached the capital, together with cancellation of their existing contract. An advertisement offered the newspaper's August supplement as a carefully printed and bound volume, emphasizing scholarly contributors, approximately 120 pages, more than 150 works, and a balance of learning and enjoyment. Its first-volume catalogue also featured essays, folk songs, diary writing, and poetry.
La Nación’s September 28, 1926 page brings together a French mystery, domestic comedy and cinema promotion. A mother and four children reportedly endure nightly knocking while gendarmes investigate their supposedly haunted home. In G. Daubignac’s story, a solicitous employer takes over Catalina’s chores and offers her his bedroom after a burglary frightens her. A UFA advertisement proclaims worldwide success and lists evening screenings of The Charm of a Waltz at three Santiago theaters.
Crítica criticized the judiciary for giving greater attention to disclosures about defendants' private lives than to clarifying the crime itself. A dispatch from Tampico described hunger strikes by male and female detainees and a demand for the warden's removal. Another celebrated General Sanjurjo's Moroccan journey, reporting an enthusiastic reception, a gunboat's accompaniment and continuing surrenders inland. The newspaper also reported in a headline that a British ship had been destroyed by fire in Port-au-Prince.
The biased foreign campaign
against the soundness of our finances
British Parliament reconvenes
Il Piccolo presented Poincaré’s willingness to approach Germany alongside firm demands for reparations, disarmament and that the Imperial Government’s war responsibility not be questioned, followed by favourable French press reactions. A combative financial report relayed Agenzia Volta’s defence of Italian spending, foreign loans and restrictions on increases in company share capital. The British parliamentary report described renewed pessimism over the mining dispute, appeals for government action and Baldwin’s admission of continuing deadlock. A closing notice explained that severe weather disrupted the paper’s news supply.