BELGIUM’S CLANDESTINE PRESS
A UNIQUE TRIBUTE. BRUSSELS. Doc. 17. A unique tribute was paid to Belgian journalism when citizens of all classes assembled in large numbers to do honour to the clandestine Press which carried on publication under German occupation. Members of the Cabinet paid tribute to those journalists who laid down their pens rather than consent to submit to work under enemy censorship. Statistics proved that under occupation nearly 250 clandestine newspapers were published in Belgium, despite daily searches by German police. A newspaper appeared in the majority or the towns, and helped to sustain the morale of the population. Publication, however, led to the infliction ot numerous sentences. Many workers on those papers died in prison, and some were shot.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18900, 19 December 1923, Page 7
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122BELGIUM’S CLANDESTINE PRESS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18900, 19 December 1923, Page 7
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