L’Écho annamite
The case of MM. Bui-quang-Chiêu, Nguyên-van-Thinh and Trân-van-Dôn
This front page of L'Écho annamite was dominated by the quarrel that followed Cochinchina's Colonial Council elections.
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L’Écho annamite
To the Annamite Voters of Cochinchina
This front page of L'Écho Annamite opened with a thank-you letter from the Constitutionalist candidates, headed by Bui Quang Chieu and Nguyen Phan Long, to the Annamite voters of Cochinchina, who they said had sent their whole list to the Colonial Council by a near-unanimous vote.
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Primary education in Japan
The page set a signed column on schooling beside foreign financial news and a report on disasters in Tonkin.
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A Find by Mr. Léon Archimbaud
This front page of L'Écho annamite led with a sarcastic signed column by Van-Anh.
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GOOD OMEN
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".
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Honest Men
Two days before the Colonial Council vote due on Sunday, 10 October 1926, the front page of L'Écho annamite was given over to the campaign.
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Gentlemen and Dear Compatriots
This front page of L'Écho Annamite was given over largely to the campaign for Cochinchina's Colonial Council.
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Profession of Faith
This front page of L'Écho annamite was given over largely to the Cochinchina Colonial Council campaign.
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To the Annamite voters of Cochinchina
Printed five days before the Cochinchina Colonial Council vote of 10 October 1926, this front page of L'Écho Annamite was given over mainly to the election.
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THE AGRICULTURAL SYNDICATES
This partial reading of L'Écho annamite for 4 October 1926 covers three items.
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To the Voters of the Constituency
This page of L'Écho annamite for 2 October 1926 carried the campaign letter of Bui Quang Chieu, the Constitutionalist leader, asking voters to send him to the Colonial Council.
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Fluctuat Nec Mergitur! — Tossed by the Waves but Never Sunk!
This page of L'Echo Annamite from 1 October 1926 combined anticolonial argument with electoral politics and a complaint about the post.
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Indigenous drivers are denied the right to their own mutual-aid association
L’Écho annamite’s 29 September 1926 page brings everyday insecurity into contact with electoral promises.
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STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
L’Écho annamite of 28 September 1926 brought together political restraint, financial retrenchment and diplomatic optimism.
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The Ardin–Lachevrotière contest
L’Écho annamite linked electoral rivalry to disputes over the treatment of Annamites: Dejean de la Batie invoked the reception for Bui-quang-Chiêu and a bank employees’ strike to explain possible boycotts of Lachevrotière’s fellow candidates.
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The example of the Centre
The political column welcomes Hoàng’s elevation to the Annam representative chamber and urges Cochinchinese voters to draw an example from it, while treating reported government attempts to recruit him with a conditional expression.
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Concerning “nuoc-mam”
The selected headings identify a discussion of nuoc-mam, an electoral forum and a report of the League of Nations’ 7th Assembly.
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Administrative employment and the Annamites
The leading essay explains attraction to administrative employment through the alternatives open to salaried workers: private jobs without retirement guarantees versus a more stable, if poorly paid, colonial service.
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The force of circumstances
The opening paragraph measures political promises against waiting time.
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Duong-van-Loi’s reply
The selected reading places an argument for emerging national consciousness beside criticism of unequal access to medical care and an official-looking account of rural concessions.
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Voluntary contributions for the franc — Voluntary contributions for Tonkin’s flood victims
The lead criticizes depleted reserves while appealing to reciprocal duties between government and people.
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A few words on Mr Trân-van-Tri’s letter to Mr Monet
The page’s selected voices contest how power is justified and restrained.
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Open letter to Mr. Nguyên-phan-Long
An open letter disputes the paper director’s appeal for justice and argues for education and self-reform.
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Letter to Paul Monet
The open letter rejects petitioning the French for lost liberties and urges action while making harsh regional comparisons.
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The colonies will pay France’s debts
The page links French debt policy to colonial land: a proposed concession monopoly draws an argument about dispossession and excluded local voices.
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The Pacific war
L’Écho annamite argues that clashes in China threaten a wider naval war and challenges France’s expectation of Vietnamese military support under colonial rule.
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Toward the coming colonial elections
L'Écho annamite urges readers to judge colonial councillors by deeds rather than the resolutions they advertise before an election.
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