The daily progressive-miner., 1916-02-10
BELGIAN PAPER
 DEFIES SPIES
PUBLISHES A NEWSPAPER RE- GARDLESS OF CENSOR
 SHIP OR GOVERNOR

The International News Service agency gave out a story recently that shows the holdness of the Bel gians. It appears that in splye of the thousands of German spies in the city of Brussels, the ."Libre Belgipue" succeeded to publish a new issue. The correspondent says:
 The boldness and wonderful ten aeity of the mysterious Belgian patriots who continue, in spite of everything, to publish their daring paper, form an amusing and am- aging side to the war.
 The Germans as soon as they had entered Brussels took posses sion of all the newspapers. The so-called Belgian papers published by the Kommandantur were in reality merely German sheets prin- ted in French.
 Very soon afterward the 'Libre Belgique" appeared. Who was the editor? Where was it printed? No one has ever been able to find out.but it has had and still las the courage to print all the things which the Germans want to remain unknown.
 Until now it has appeared in about sixty issues-that is to say, almost weekly-and has published documentary proofs of the German misdeeds, has criticised German bull letins of victories and has pophe- sled from the start the inevitable downfall of Germany.
 In the most merciless manner it leases the conquerors, it stimuli ates the Belgians, gives publicity to the thousands of little tricks which the irrepressible street ur- chins of Brussels play on the Ger mans and flays the Kaiser, the mil itary Governor and the German generals in every issue.
 Von Bissing himself still receives a special copy with exasperating regularity, and invariably the gov ernor finds it on top of all other papers on his desk. It is as if a Belgian Ku Klux Klan were at work.
 The governor first promised reward of s5.000 to any person who would betray the names of the ed itors and. the publishers, and the reward was raised to s10,000, and then to s15,000; but in vain.
 The following story appeared in one of the recent isues of the pa- per, copies of which even reached Paris:
 It reprints the story told by the famous English war correspondent, Russell of the "Times," who fol- owed the Prussian army in 1870, about the destruction of the Cha -eau of Saint Cloud. Russel vii sited the chateau with a German offiver named Strautz. A few moments before the chateau was 'et afire, Strautz exclaimed:
 Gentlemen, I am the last com mandant of Saint Cloud. For he very last time We will visit he magnificent apartments. We will throw glance at them and in order that they may forever remain in our memory We will each take llong souvenier. Take whatever fou want-wines paintings, or books; whatever you like"
 Russel adds: q went inside with Lieutenant Won Bissing and Major Gias and when they saw that I 'arried away nothing they insis- ted that must do so. I explained to them that my position was diff ferent and that I could not take what had not been offered me-"
 Then you ought to have seen what happened. From all sides gifts poured in on me; gifts so that it would take the author of the Arabian Nights to describe them.n
 
 The "Libre Belguique" identifies this Won Bissing as the present governor of Belgium, who was born in 1844 and who served as a lieut.