BELGIAN PRESS
HEROIC WAR WORK. UNIQUE PUBLIC TRIBUTE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyrig it BRUSSELS, December 17. A unique tribute was paid to Belgian journalism when the citizens of all classes assembled in large numbers to do honour to the clandestine press which carried on publication under the German occupation. Members of the Cabinet paid a tribute to the journalists, who laid down their pens rather than consent to submit to work under enemy censorship. Statistics proved that under the occupation nearly 250 clandestine newspapers were published in Belgium. Despite daily searches by the German police, a newspaper appeared in a majority of the towns, and helped to sustain the morale of the population. The publication, however, led to the infliction of numerous sentences Many of the workers on these papers died in prison and some of them were shot.—The Times.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19048, 19 December 1923, Page 7
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139BELGIAN PRESS Otago Daily Times, Issue 19048, 19 December 1923, Page 7
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