New Britain herald., 1916-10-06
SECRET JOURNALS
 FLOODING BELGIUM
Once More Pen Proves More Pow
 erful Than Sword

Havre, France, Oct. 6.-The Bel gian government authorities here have received information of the contin- ued appearance of patriotic news papers at Brussels and throughout Belgium, in defiance of the German censorship and despite all the efforts of the German military police. It is one of the mysteries of the Ger man occupation of Belgium how these secret papers can be published, where they engrave their cartoons ridiculing the Germans, and how they set the type and circulate the papers.
 There is a price of 5O,oo0 marks on the head of the editor of the Free Belgium, but 1t keeps on appearing just the same. Several of the sup posed editors are said to have been shot. One man was sentenced to ] twelve years hard labor, others to | three and eleven years, and a won- an, Madame Scheupens, to five years. But each time that a supposed editor is imprisoned and the German au- thorities feel the trouble is ended, the paper appears the following day more 1 lustry than ever with cartoon mak- ing fun of the prosecution. A file is kept here of these secret l papers, as a matter of curiosity. Free I Belgium, which has given the most trouble, prints the following notices i under its title:
 "A bulletin of patriotism, submit ting to no censorship whatever. 1 Price per copy elastic, from zero to infinity.
 
 to have an esta :blished address, we are installed in a movable automobil cellar. |. nil under German domination, we | have suppressed our advertising page and counsel our patrons to keep their l money till times get better. 1 Photographic address: Care of 1 German Commander at Brussels l A recent issue of Free Belgium gave
 a cartoon by Baemaker, adapted from | Gustave Dore's Scenes in Hell, show l ing woman and children in agony as
 they are trampled down by a soldier 1 in German helmet. the face of the
 soldier being evidently meant for 1 that of the Kaiser. Another cartoon 1 entitled "Love's Chagrin," shows l General von Bissing, the military commander of Brussels, trying to find the editor of rFee Belgium in cellars and attics, while the editorial rooms l business office, etc., are depicted on | wheels. A big sun, labelled Free Bel gium, smiles down derisively at von l Bissings vain efforts to capture the editors.
 La Patrie Is another of these se- cret newspapers. It announces under 1 its title that it is a "non-censored | journal, appearing how, where and when it pleases." Another line states that 1t is in the second year of it's
 publication. The bitterness of this
 paper Is shown in standing line car
 ried at the head of its editorials. re- 1 ferring to the Germans as "barbarians
 and liars always" A recent num- l Der showed the Germans Zen route for Calais by way of the Yser river, with the bodies of German soldiers slaughtered by the Belgians, floating in the river.
 L'Echo, another of the secret jour-
 nals, announces that it prints "what
 censored journals dare not and can 1 not say.' A recent number gave the 1 speech of Premier Asquith in the house of commons, declaring there would be no peace until Belgium was free. The editorial was headed: "Teuton Pirates and Vandals." 1 Other secret newspapers are La Verite and the Flemish Lion. There is also a Weekly Review of the French Press, giving articles which have been prohibited from being pub lished in Belgium. Illustrated books also continue to appear. with hand some engravings and colored maps,