The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-10-26
SECRET NEWSPAPERS
ISSUED IN BELGIUM
Defy and Battle German Po-
ice-Methods of Publica.
ton Mystery.

Havre, France. (by mail.)-The Bel
gian government authorities here have
received information Of the continued
appearance Of patriotic newspapers at
Brussels and throughout Belgium, in
defiance of the German censorship and
despite all the efforts Of the German
military police. 1t is n Of the mys-
teries of the German 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 $4,000 marks on
the head of the editor of the Free Bel
giun, but it keeps on appearing just
the same. Several of the supposed
editors are said to have been shot. One
mar was sentenced to 10 years hard
labor, others to three and II years, and
a woman, Madame Scheupens. to five
years. But each time that a supposed
editor is imprisoned and the German
authorities feel the trouble is ended,
the paper appears the following day
more lusty Their eve with a cartoon
making fun of the prosecution.
A file is kept here of these secret
papers, as a matter Of curiosity. Free
Belgium, which has given the most
trouble, prints the following notices I'M
der it's title:
"a bulletin of patriotism. submitting
to no censorship whatever.
Price per copy elastic. from zero
to infinity.
Business office-Not being handy to
have an established address, we are
Installed in a movable automobile cell
lar.
Observation-Disclosures being nil
under German domination, we have
sum ~., -
counsel our patrons to keep their
money till times get better.
photographic address: Care Of Ger
man commander at Brussels"
A recent issue of Free Belgium gave
a cartoon by Raemaker, adapted from
Gustave Dore's scenes in hell, showing
women and children in agony as they
are trampled down by Il soldier in Ger
man helmet, the face of the soldier be-
Ing evidently meant for that of the
kaiser. Another cartoon, entitled
Loves Chagrin," shows General Won
Kissing the military commander Of
Brussels, trying to find the editor Of
Free Belgium in cellars and attics,
while the editorial rooms, business Of
flee, etc, are depicted on wheels. A big
sun, labelled Free Belgium, smiles
down d~erisively at Won Bissing's vain
efforts to capture the editors.
La Patrie Is another Of these secret
newspapers. 1t under its
title thai it is a "~noncensored journal,
appearing how, where and when it
pleases." Another line states tina it is
IN the second year Of its publication.
The bitterness of this paper is shown
IN a standing line carried at the head
of it's editorials, referring to thu Ger
nan as "barbarians and liars always"
A recent number showed the Germans
ZEN route for Calais" by way of the
User river with tho hnIiac OP r,,,o.-
soldiers slaughtered by the Belgians,
floating in the river.
LEcho, another Of the secret Jour-
nails, that it prints what
censored journals dare not and cannot
say. A recent number gave the speech
OF Premier Asquith in the house of
commons. declaring there would be no
peace until Belgium was free. The edi-
torial was headed: "Teuton Pirates
and Vandals."
Other secret newspapers are La Yer
lite and the Flemish Lion. There is also
a Weekly Review Of the French Press.
giving articles which have been pro-
hlbited from being published in Bel
GUM. illustrated books also continue
to appear, with handsome engravings
and colored maps, giving the Belgian
story as against the German.
Even a secret press bureau has been
set up at Brussels, which issues type
written sheets comparing favorably
with those from the official press bu-
reau at Paris and London. The editing
is well done, showing that there must
be capable men to gather the material
and put it in shape. The Sheets, me-
chemically, are eve better than those
issued at Paris and London, showing
there must be a large and first class
duplicating process somewhere beyond
the power Of the Germans to discover.
The Belgian officials themselves do
not know how this work is done, and it
is simply incomprehensible how all this
editing. publishing, printing, circulate
Ing, getting the requisite white paper
and ink, drawing cartoons, engraving
and lithographing, and all the innum-
cradle details of getting out newspa-
pers, weeklies, books and a press SER
vice, can be accomplished in secret with
the German police straining every nerve
and Offering prices on the heads Of ed
itors. 1t takes courage and ingenuity
to be an editor in Belgium under these
conditions.