SOVIET NOW READY TO PAY U. S. AND DROP ITS COUNTER CLAIMS
DAUGHERTY CASE JURY IS STILL OUT; STUDIES RECORDS
IRISH DISAFFECTION FACING DEMOCRATS IN MASSACHUSETTS
The Evening Star's front page of October 9, 1926, carried three political reports. From London, John Gunther described meeting the new Soviet envoy Leonid Krassin at Chesham House, beneath a bronze bust of Lenin, where Krassin said Moscow would acknowledge its debt to the United States and drop its counter claims once negotiations with Washington began. An Associated Press report followed the jury in the conspiracy trial of former Attorney General Daugherty and former alien property custodian Miller, which had been sent to a hotel overnight and asked for documentary evidence, and it laid out the charge of sharing a $441,000 fee over a $7,000,000 alien claim. Gould Lincoln reported from Lawrence, Massachusetts, that a 400-member Irish-American Republican Club of former Democratic office-holders was clouding the outlook in a long-time Democratic stronghold.
FEDERAL JURY GETS DAUGHERTY-MILLER CASE LATE FRIDAY
THOUSANDS PERISH IN HORROR CITY AS TROOPS HOLD GATES
OFFICIALS PLEDGE MEANS FOR MEETING COTTON SITUATION
The Montgomery Advertiser's front page for Saturday, October 9, 1926, led with the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial in New York, which went to the jury late Friday. Judge Julian Mack explained to the jury that the former attorney general and the former alien property custodian were charged with conspiracy, not bribery, over the 1921 release of $7,000,000 in American Metal Company assets. An AP dispatch from Hankow described the besieged city of Wuchang, where Chinese officials counted 10,000 dead, most of them from starvation, and where surrender was rumored for October 10. A Washington report followed the record estimate of a 16,627,000-bale cotton crop. It described White House assurances that storage and credit were ample, and Secretary Jardine's letter to the Alabama farm leader Edward A. O'Neal.
The London Evening Advertiser of 9 October 1926 mourned Charles S. Hyman, the former Canadian minister of public works and manufacturer, who had died at his home Idlewyld that morning at 72 after a heart illness that began at a Quebec fishing club in May; the paper called him perhaps the most beloved of London's citizens. An Associated Press dispatch relayed the London Daily Express's claim that Mussolini, with Greek help, was preparing war on Turkey to win a zone around Adalia, with Greece striking through Thrace for Smyrna, while Britain and possibly the United States worked for peace. A Cape Town dispatch reported a gas explosion in a Natal coal mine that had entombed 120 men, with eleven bodies recovered and little hope for the rest. The reading includes only the opening of the Hyman obituary and stops where the mine story gives way to the next item.
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung printed in full President Hindenburg's warm letter accepting Colonel General Hans von Seeckt's resignation, praising his wartime record and his postwar rebuilding of the Reichswehr. The paper added that no successor had yet been chosen, that General Reinhardt had reportedly asked not to be appointed, and that Lieutenant Generals Heye and Hasse were the leading names. It also argued that the post of army chief had formally lapsed in 1925 at the Allied control commission's demand. A signed column by Democratic deputy Hermann Fischer welcomed industrialist Paul Silverberg's pro-republic Dresden speech as a chance to revive a Grand Coalition with the Social Democrats and urged employers to renew cooperation with the trade unions. A London dispatch listed the German and British business leaders meeting at Colonel Ashley's estate near Romsey for informal talks meant to build mutual trust.
The Neue Freie Presse of 9 October 1926 led with a jubilant editorial on the Austrian civil servants' last-minute vote to postpone their strike. It called the planned "deadline strike" a crime against the Republic, since the government had only asked for three days to review the budget before making offers on Tuesday the 12th. It blamed the union leader Zelenka, whom it called an "uncrowned king", and warned that such excesses had prepared the ground for a regime of oppression in Italy. A London telegram reported that the British miners' delegate conference had put off withdrawing safety men from the pits until a district ballot of about ten days. The correspondent judged that the delay threw away any surprise. The feuilleton opened Arpad's memoir of the Hungarian tragedienne Marie Jászai, lamenting that an actor's greatness cannot outlive the actor.
Before the Congress of the Radical and Radical Socialist Party
L'Écho d'Alger's front page of 9 October 1926 led with an interview, reprinted from a Paris paper, in which the aviator Paul Tarascon flatly denied a New York report that he had taken a $25,000 American offer to fly New York–Paris. He said the money was simply Orteig's prize, that he was still preparing a Paris–New York flight with no fixed date, and he described his wooden parasol monoplane, his plan to ride high-altitude counter-trades against the west wind, and a 33-hour crossing from Étampes. The same column carried colonial-policy opinion pieces. Beside it, the Council of Ministers report covered an administrative decentralisation decree, preparations for one-year military service, merchant-marine economies and an automatic Paris telephone network. Le Journal was quoted asking whether Maurice Sarraut would agree to succeed Herriot as Radical Party president at the Bordeaux congress.
La Tribune de Madagascar's front page of 9 October 1926 mixed colonial advocacy, a note on the island's Chinese community and a sharp local editorial. In a signed column, Dr Koun argued that the colonies were extensions of French soil where French families could settle, keep their 'racial strength' and even regain it, and the page pictured settler family life and sport-loving youth in Hanoi. A short item reported that the Chinese Congregation had explained to a Chamber of Commerce why it had taken a decision about admitting fellow Chinese, pointing to alleged links with the Chinese Communist Party, which it distinguished from the nationalist party it supported. The editorial 'DES ACTES' attacked the capital's sleepy municipal authorities over dirty streets, rubbish left lying for days and spreading slums, and warned that taxpayers might copy Majunga's tax strike unless their health was protected.
On the eve of Cochinchina's 10 October Colonial Council elections, this page of L'Écho Annamite was given over largely to its "Electoral Tribune". L. K. Van's column recounted conversations from a trip that predicted a sweep for the Bui-quang-Chiêu list in the native electoral college. It also celebrated the fact that two French republican dailies, Saigon Républicain and l'Opinion, had printed the list's manifesto and defended its loyalty to France. P. Marchet ridiculed Dr. Laid-quang-Trinh, who had told a Mytho meeting that he opposed Franco-Annamite rapprochement out of a personal grudge against Mᵉ Gallet. Marchet also recalled that the Colonial Council had rejected, by 11 votes to 8, a motion of sympathy to Governor Varenne. A short Hongkong dispatch reported that Canton's Nationalist Government would levy temporary taxes of 2 1/2% and 5% from 11 October.
The Prager Tagblatt of 9 October 1926 followed political tremors in Berlin and London. An editorial headed "Trials of Strength for the Republic" opened with the departure from Berlin of Lord d'Abernon, the British ambassador. A Berlin report printed the closing lines of President Hindenburg's courteous letter to the outgoing army chief Hans von Seeckt, said no successor had yet been chosen, said that the senior general Reinhardt had reportedly asked not to be appointed, and named Lieutenant Generals Hasse and Heye as the names under discussion. From London the paper reported, with open irony, that the Conservative conference at Scarborough had demanded the expulsion of the Russian trade delegation, the end of the 1921 Anglo-Russian trade agreement, tougher laws against sedition, harsh penalties for harassing strike-breakers and treatment of a general strike as treason. This reading covers three fragments, and the editorial survives here only in its first sentence.
The Fourth International Congress on Moral Education
This front page of 9 October 1926 set Swiss domestic politics beside League-era diplomacy. An editorial signed J. M. warned that the federal wheat monopoly going to the voters on 5 December would turn bread into a parliamentary battleground and hurt farmers first. It also argued that the monopoly would hand the Socialists a breach in the bourgeois order and lead to further monopolies. A dispatch from the paper's American correspondent reported that President Coolidge refused the Geneva compromise on the Senate's fifth reservation to US membership of the World Court, because he feared the League Council could request advisory opinions by majority vote. A report on the Fourth International Congress on Moral Education in Rome noted papal disapproval and a ministry speech claiming Catholic Christianity as Italy's moral code. Even so, the report found that the only opponent of Bélot's rationalism had been a Dutch Protestant.
Politika's front-page political report of 9 October 1926 dealt with the first reshuffle of Nikola Uzunović's Radical–Croatian Peasant Party cabinet. The paper reported that Dr. Nikić, Minister of Forests and Mines, had been removed before the National Assembly and even the HSS club in Zagreb could meet, a step it presented as a win for Stjepan Radić's personal authority, while passing on claims that the victory would be short-lived. Another passage showed Uzunović laughing off reporters' request for news, before they reminded him that after his audience at Court he had denied any 'Nikić question'. The paper stated that the matter was settled on Thursday night without the knowledge of most ministers, with Dr. V. Jovanović taking Nikić's place.
Significant ancient find in the high mountains between Sætesdal and Suldal.
Our forefathers' hunting life through the centuries can be studied there.
A contribution also to the solving of other riddles.
Aftenposten carried a signed column by curator Eivind Kvaalen announcing a significant ancient find in the high mountains between Sætesdal and Suldal. Kvaalen recounted how, on a trip in 1921, the elderly Targeir Knutsson Hovden told him of animal drawings on a stone in a rock shelter at Storhedder, a place known from Skar's and Knut Loupedalen's legend collections, but neither Hovden nor anyone else could lead him there. In a later passage Kvaalen described the shelter as a room with a hole for hanging a powder horn, mentioned incised bears, animals and ancient names, and mocked the way Gustav Storm and the "critical" scholars would have dismissed it all as poetically embellished legend.
The Defective Water Supply Explained and Reduced to Modest Proportions
Order of the Star in the East
The Cinemas
The front page of the Leidsch Dagblad for 9 October 1926 mixed civic business with culture. A municipal notice signed by Mayor N. C. de Gijselaar announced that permit requests under the Nuisance Act were open for inspection and that objections would be heard at the Town Hall on 23 October. Below it, a city-news item set out to explain Leiden's faulty water supply and play down its scale, opening with a reference to the Electric Power Station. The paper also reported a lecture to a packed Nutszaal, where P. van Stam of Naarden spoke for the Leiden group of the Order of the Star in the East on "the expectation of Christ" and called human hope a constant from childhood onward. A cinema review described the sold-out Casino screening of the long-awaited "The Three Musketeers", twelve acts long, and judged that its length had not harmed its quality.
The Reich’s Intrigues and Difficulties over General von Seeckt’s Unexpected Resignation
Le Petit Matin’s front page of 9 October 1926 was dominated by Charles Alexandre’s editorial on the Banque de France’s buyback of gold and silver coins. Writing from Tunisia, he described crowds and scuffles at bank counters in France, called the operation financially necessary but morally a reward for those who had hoarded coins during the war, argued that only Poincaré had the standing to carry it out, and urged that the Banque d’Algérie be ordered to buy up the coins hidden in Tunisia. A cabinet report set out Tardieu’s cuts and mergers in the merchant-marine service and the redrawn limits of maritime registration, together with plans for one-year military service and an automatic Paris telephone network. A long Berlin dispatch analysed the pressure on Hindenburg over General von Seeckt’s resignation after the Hohenzollern prince affair, beside shorter items on the British miners’ rejection of Baldwin’s offer and the discharge of the 1925 class.
The Shibao front page of 9 October 1926 set Shanghai notices beside war news from Jiangxi. A notice announced that the international athletic meet, with teams from China, the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Portugal and the Netherlands, would open that afternoon at the Zhonghua sports ground on Observatory Road, with tickets at three prices; in the same notice block an insurance company invited the public to the opening of its eight-storey head office on Bubbling Well Road. The war reports set a British gunboat's wireless claim that Jiujiang had fallen to the Southern Army against a Japanese warship's message that the city was quiet, and judged the rumour groundless. Other items described a near-truce on every front except Xiushui, the Revolutionary Army's capture of De'an, Southern plain-clothes units disguised as students, merchants and beggars, a troop steamer reportedly sent by Sun Chuanfang waiting midstream at Jiujiang, and a Red Cross station there overwhelmed by wounded.
A FIREDAMP EXPLOSION OCCURRED IN A COAL MINE IN THE CAPE
THE COMMUNIST PARTY WILL PUNISH TROTSKY, ZINOVIEV AND PIATAKOV
A RUSSIAN REBEL WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Crítica's front page of 9 October 1926 carried foreign news in short Associated Press cables. From London came word, relayed from Cape Town correspondents, that a gas explosion at the Durban Navigation Company's colliery had sealed the shaft and trapped four white men and 116 African miners; rescuers held out little hope and eleven bodies had been brought up. From Moscow, the paper reported that the Communist Party's Political Bureau had condemned Trotsky, Zinoviev and Piatakov for criticising the leadership before factory workers and would send their case to a plenum on the 20th for exemplary punishment, leaving Moscow readers asking what would become of them. A third cable from Saratov reported a death sentence for Dimitri Suvorov, a former imperial officer and descendant of General Suvorov, for leading a 1920 counter-revolutionary movement, while his elderly father received three years.
The Grand Council decides to abolish elective offices in the P. N. F.
The threat of the British miners
Il Piccolo of Trieste led its 9 October 1926 front page with “Roma mediatrice”, an editorial that used King Boris III's eighth jubilee to trace Bulgaria's recovery from defeat, civil strife and its refugee burden. The editorial hailed Foreign Minister Burov's visit to Mussolini as the completion of a Balkan policy that Fascist Italy had begun with the Italo-Yugoslav pact. A Rome report described the Fascist Grand Council unanimously approving Augusto Turati's principle that party offices would no longer be elected: the Duce would appoint the general secretary, who would appoint the provincial secretaries. The same column carried General Gonzaga's farewell to the Militia officers and plans for the March on Rome anniversary. A London dispatch described the Miners' Federation drawing back from withdrawing pit safety crews and sending the question back to the districts, while noting how few men had voted to return to work. Shorter items covered a threatened Austrian civil-service strike and a ministerial commission on reviving Italian cinema.