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Read published past issues of La Tribune de Madagascar, with excerpts, translations and context.
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Are We Going to Run Short of Paper?
The 14 October 1926 front page of La Tribune de Madagascar, a Tananarive tri-weekly, opened with an editorial warning that France, and therefore its colonies, faced a paper shortage.
Read this newspaper →The Tax Position of Foreigners in France
La Tribune de Madagascar of 12 October 1926 mixed metropolitan tax politics with colonial administration and communications.
Read this newspaper →The French Family in the Colonies
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.
Read this newspaper →A Report
This front page of La Tribune de Madagascar, dated 7 October 1926, carried three substantial items.
Read this newspaper →Paid Holidays for Workers
The front page of La Tribune de Madagascar for 5 October 1926 carried a piece on paid holidays for workers, although the reading captures only the masthead line under that heading, giving the paper's 20th year and issue number 1927.
Read this newspaper →On the Eve of the New Session
This Madagascar paper looked at French politics as Parliament prepared to return.
Read this newspaper →Give Us Our Daily Bread
On 30 September 1926 La Tribune de Madagascar carried an editorial titled after a line of the Lord's Prayer.
Read this newspaper →Housing and Rents
La Tribune de Madagascar’s September 28, 1926 issue featured arguments about housing costs and administrative capacity alongside a dispute over European diplomatic reporting.
Read this newspaper →The Tangier question
The Tangier commentary interprets Spain’s initiative as a diversion from domestic trouble, while describing its Moroccan commitments as costly and precarious.
Read this newspaper →On colonial concessions
The colonial-concessions article sets out a proposal to secure borrowing with mortgages on land, redirecting concession payments to creditors.
Read this newspaper →Colonial land concessions
Land, transport and sanitary administration form the selected reading’s linked concerns.
Read this newspaper →The fight against malaria in Tananarive
The paper argues that malaria measures fit local conditions poorly and condemns hostile treatment of foreigners in Paris as an oversimplified response to economic pressures.
Read this newspaper →Not easy
The austerity column admits a shipping-sector objection that consolidation may overload the minister.
Read this newspaper →Be kind to the French
The Tribune reproduces a proposal to tax foreign residents, with projected revenue resting on its advocate’s assumptions.
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