The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-29
NEWSPA AYERS OF BELGIUM HECKLE
 GERMAN KAISER
Officials Securing Towns In Vain to Find Printing
 Shops.

IldVTe. fTdHce, sept. Z9.-IHe Bel gian government authorities here have received information of the con- | tinued 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 German occupation of Belgium how these se- cret 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 50,00O marks on | the head of the editor of the Free Belgium, but it keeps on appearing 1 just the same. Several of the SUD- posed editors are said to have been | shot. One man was sentenced to 12 years hard labor, others to three and eleven years, and woman, Madame Scheupens, to five years. But each
 time that a supposed editor is impris- cned and the German authorities feel the trouble is ended, the paper appears the following day more lusty than ever 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 | under it's title: | "A bulletin of patriotism, submit ting 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 cellar. Advertisements: Business being nil | under German domination, we have suppressed our advertising page and counsel our patrons to keep their
 money till times get better. l Photographic address: Care of Ger man Commander at Brussels" A recent issue of Free Belgium gave cartoon by Raemaker. adapted from Gustave Dore's Scenes in Hell, show ing women and children in agony as l they are tramp1ed down by a soldier in German helmet, the face of the l soldier being evidently meant for that | of the Kaiser. Another cartoon, en- titled Loves Chagrin,'' shows Gen
 eral von Bissing, the, Military Com
 mander of Brussels, trying to find the
 editor of Free Belgium in cellars and attics, while the editorial rooms, busi- ness office, etc., are depicted : on
 wheels. A big sun, labelled Free l Belgium, smiles down derisiveIy at | Von IBissing's vain efforts to cap | ture the editors.
 | La. Patrie is another of these secret newspapers It announces under it's title that it is a "non-censored jour nal, appearing how, where and when it pleases." Another line states that
 it is in the, second year of its publi-
 cation. The bitterness of this paper
 is shown in a standing line, carried at the head of it's editorials, referring
 to the, Germans as, ''barbarians and l liars always" A recent number
 showed the Germans cen route for Calais by way of the Yser river. with i i the bodies of German soldiers slaugh- | tered by the Belgians, floating in the
 river.
 LEcho, another of the secret jour- nals, announces that it prints "wha+ censored journals dare not and can | not say.' A recent nurnber gave the speech of Premier Asquith in the | House of Commons, declaring there would be no peace until Belgium was | free. The editorial was headedl 'Teuton Pirates and Vandals." T 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 published in Belgium. Illustrated books also con- 1 tinue to appear, with handsome en- cravings and colored maps, giving | the Belgian story as against the Ger man.
 i Even 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 ed l iting is we'll donG, showing that there | must be capable men to gather the l material and put it in shape. The sheets, mechanically, are even better than those issued at Paris and London, | showing there must be a large and l first class duplicating process some
 where beyond the power of the Ger mans 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 cir culatiilg, getting the requisite white pape.. and ink, drawing cartoons, en- grazing and lithographing, and all the 1 inn umerable details of getting out | newspapers; weeklies, books and a | press service, can be accomplished in secret with the German police strain l ing every nerve and offering prices | on the heads of editors. It takes courage and ingenuity to be an editor | in Belgium under these conditions