THE PRESS IN BELGIUM

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9619, 27 March 1917, Page 7

THE PRESS IN BELGIUM

THORNS IN THE SIDE OF VON HISSING. For two years “La Libre Belgique,’’ the famous organ of the oppressed inhabitants of Belgium, has succeeded in maintaining a, regular issue, in spite of all the German efforts to discover its publication and staff. Every week a copy is posted to Baron von Bissing, the German Governor; and its success, as the “Temps" points out. has encouraged other clandestine and riot less audacious publicatiousi' to spring up. A “weekly review of the French Press, which reprints articles from the Paris pajierd, hajs reached Sts fifty-seventh number; a satirical journal, the “Motus," expends its sarcasm on the invaders: and the “Patrio,” run on lines similar to “La Libre Belgique.” actually reproduces M. Raemaekers’s cartoons. The Paris papers, too, are lent to read by unknown agencies, and passed on from one reader to another; and typewritten sheets are issued with summaries, from the Entente press, of the war news. Yet every letter is censored, and German spies abound.