The Evening Star's front page on Armistice Day led with J. Russell Young's report from Kansas City that President Coolidge told the League of Nations powers the United States would join the World Court only on the terms of the Senate resolution, and saw no prospect of adherence otherwise. Closer to home, the paper described Washington's eighth Armistice Day observance, as citizens stood in silence at graves from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington to the resting place of the wartime President on Mount St. Alban, with artillery firing salutes. A brief Associated Press item from St. Paul told how pupils of St. Agnes School played cops and robbers with 25 sticks of frozen dynamite they had found in an empty garage, until Gilbert Graff came upon them and called an officer, and the explosive was dumped into the river.
QUIET OBSERVANCE OF ARMISTICE DAY PLANNED FOR CITY
HALL-MILLS TRIAL IS RECESSED FOR NATIONAL HOLIDAY
ILLNESS OF JUROR HALTS HEARING OF DAVIS MURDER CASE
The Montgomery Advertiser of November 11, 1926, greeted Armistice Day with a short notice that the city would quietly observe the eighth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice, describing the date as a day of rejoicing for victory and the peace it brought. Two trial reports ran beside it. An Associated Press dispatch from Somerville, New Jersey, said the Hall-Mills jury had voted to take Armistice Day off, recessing the murder trial until Friday after half a dozen witnesses testified. From Birmingham, the paper's own correspondent reported that a juror's illness had interrupted the eighth day of the murder trial of Charles R. Davis, a former Flat Top convict warden charged in the death of the convict James Knox.
On Armistice Day 1926, the London Evening Advertiser of London, Ontario, reported that a supreme court jury had acquitted Harold Webb of manslaughter in the death of Fred Chantler, who was killed weeks earlier when a car carrying Webb's liquor cargo upset near Hyde Park; the jury deliberated from 12:15 to 2:30. The page also carried E. J. Penny's recollection of the bugles that sounded the "Cease Fire" along the Allied front in France and Flanders eight years before, hailed as the end of the greatest war and the downfall of the German Empire, and a report on how the city kept the two-minute silence at 11 o'clock, with factories closed, Bell Telephone switchboards dark until 11:02, telegraph offices silent and street cars halted.
The Vossische Zeitung of 11 November 1926 led with the Reichstag, where Communist and völkisch no-confidence motions against the cabinet failed while the German Nationalists abstained. Defence Minister Otto Geßler then explained from the government bench why Colonel General Hans von Seeckt had been retired: the Crown Prince's eldest son had been attached for weeks to the 9th Infantry Regiment during an exercise, which Geßler called impossible at home and abroad. A second report said the governing parties pressed for a clarification of the majority situation after German Nationalists and Social Democrats had repeatedly voted with the Communists and Völkische, and that the chancellor would seek safeguards from the Social Democrats. The page also reported the French pair Wambst–Lacquehay winning the 17th Berlin six-day race.
This front page of the Neue Freie Presse for 11 November 1926 led with a correspondent's report on the Feme murder trial at Landsberg an der Warthe. The paper said it was the first such trial held fully in public, and the first to shed some light on the so-called Black Reichswehr. An interview with Mussolini had him describing the latest attempt on his life: he said he recognized the weapon by its sound as an army Beretta pistol, credited a mystical power with protecting him, and named Julius Caesar, whose bust stood above his desk, as his model. Kurt Münzer's Berlin column described Berliners driven home from the coasts and the Alps by rain and cold, returning to a city of golden autumn sunshine.
The Prager Tagblatt of 11 November 1926 led with the fallout of a Prague espionage case: police had traced an alert order for the Prague garrison to Dymow, an official registered with the consular department of the Soviet mission, whom they described as a G.P.U. observer sent to watch the mission itself. A short retrospective recalled the secret 1925 trial of Johann Vodička, accused under the Protection Act of spying for Soviet Russia with help from a Soviet consular official, which ended in acquittal on treason and three weeks' arrest for insulting ministers. On the domestic side, the cabinet approved Finance Minister Engliš's bill on direct taxes and the finances of local self-governing bodies, with the aim of passing it in the Chamber before Christmas.
The Journal de Genève's front page of 11 November 1926 carried an editorial signed W. M. on Italy's new "public safety laws". It argued that regimes of force had always failed when they tried to rule by terror, and said the writer was astounded that an ambitious twentieth-century government would rest its power on so fragile a base. A second article marked nine years of Soviet rule. It recalled that professional prophets had given the Bolsheviks three months at most, and noted that new prophets now said the regime was here to stay. A short item headed "In memoriam" told how the Federal Council ordered the 1st Division called up for 11 November at 8 p.m., and how Police Commissioner Sessler, with drummers and gendarmes, read the order aloud in the town's main squares. The selected passage does not give the year of that call-up.
Politika's page of 11 November 1926 carried an editorial, 'Twilight of a Regime...', arguing that recent events in Fascist Italy could mark the beginning of the collapse of Fascism and showed that Italy under dictatorship, despite its reformist and nationally regenerative image, was orderly only in appearance. The paper also printed the opening of the memoirs of Mil. J. Nikolajević, who served at the Serbian court from King Milan's abdication in February 1889 to 29 May 1903, rising from orderly officer to Marshal of the Court. A cartoon on the Greek elections had the foreign minister hoping that an agreement with Greece would become possible once the vote was over.
Aftenposten's front page of 11 November 1926 set Norwegian literature, science and local alcohol politics side by side. R. Grieg's signed column profiled the novelist Olav Duun, recalling his 1907 debut with a slim book of stories and the new work he had brought out every year since. Docent Johs. Lindeman, writing for the paper, explained Professor Richard Zsigmondy's colloid chemistry through the alchemists' 'drinkable gold', a red liquid in which finely divided gold stays suspended in water for months or years. An unsigned editorial attacked the Faaberg rural council for refusing beer and wine licences to the district's reputable hotels, including the Lillehammer Tourist Hotel. The council had split 12 to 12 and the acting mayor's vote decided it, and the paper called the decision an obvious abuse of power.
Judge Ortega Warned the Jockey Club That It Could Not Hold the Well-Known Auctions of the Classic
Crítica's page of 11 November 1926 led with an exuberant, exclamation-packed headline on the racehorse Macón. It reported that Macón had scored another brilliant victory over 3000 metres, finishing a length and a half ahead of his stablemate Goldseeker in 3 minutes 10 2/5 seconds, with Tropel third and Hermes fourth. Lower on the page, an article headlined that Judge Ortega had warned the Jockey Club it could not hold the well-known auctions of "the Classic." In the legible fragment of that report, the paper hailed the arrival of a judge who was not frightened by the "specter" of the Jockey Club and would not let tradition hold him back.
Il Piccolo's page of 11 November 1926 carried the Stefani agency's assurance that Italy was perfectly calm, printed beside the news that the offices of the anti-fascist parties and associations dissolved under the new public security law had been occupied and closed overnight, with searches said to have turned up results in some places. Under a heading promising a Naples–New York crossing in five days, the paper quoted Mussolini crediting a mystical force for his survival, invoking the dictators of the Roman Republic to justify dictatorship, and listing railways, the Apulian Aqueduct, electrification and land reclamation as its fruits. A report from Britain described British fascist women and men brawling with hecklers at a youth league meeting, where the speaking MP left the platform to help expel a resisting man.