NEWSPAPER THAT "MEN DIED FOR.
MYSTERIES OF "LA LIBRE
BELGIQUE
Fr. Josel Meeus contributes the Following article to the Weekly Dispatch -
He who has not played an inctive role under and contrary to the German yoke can have but an imperfect idea of that life of eontinual danger.
"The soldier who, from an ad- vanced position, makes recon- naissance against the enemy. bas intervals of repose, and, is, moreover, armed and can engage his adversaries in a decisive Battle: but the obscure worker in an invaded country has Do' moment of respite in his patriotic work. During his most innocent Occupations, while he sleeps, at the domestic hearth, in the street, in church, the lasso of the enemy is quivering round his head in the obscurity and may descend at any instant -
It is a delicate matter so name anyone in rendering homage to the heroes of our resistance, because the great works which did so much for our invaded country-the service of the clan- destine Press, secret corres- pondence, recruitment of the Belgian Army, surveillance of the German military, movements - were undertaken by a large group of men who, generally spaking, did not know each other, worked in different towns, and were united only by the чате ideal: to prevent the penetration of German Kultur through Belgium,
I was not only occupied with La Libre Belgique, and I may say in passing, that nearly all its collaborators were occupied at the same time with other patriotic works, and that it is by these principally that they were able to continue for more than four years their resistance of the Germans...
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THE FIRST NUMBER. The Germans know the value constrained subjects of to-day, aroused, another press was em- of the Press. One of the most subscribe ourselves."
fployed to finish the interrupted traitorous of their counter-attacks For a work improvised in the work, producing rapidly a new was the creation, with German midst of difficulties
paper, without number of the money, of a Press, apparently name, the conditions of its putting the Germans off the aro-Belgian, but which combined collaborators were of necessity track by proving
ontinually to give the idea that hard. Experience imposed the real printer was still at large. the Allies were fighting a losing following regulations battle. In these journals such To be ready to die, but not to tant devotion of those engaged in phrases as the following were throw life away; to have audacity the work that when one person common:-"However much we and sangfroid, not counting was arrested ten others immedi- wish that our cause were triumph-personal loss or suffering to ing, we must admit that the Ger- many are always advancing "; or "Where are the going to stop?. The English are now the subjects of defeat."
advance the cause.
A resolution never to betray one's colleagues.
ately offered to take his place. Owing to this devotion the accus- ed had a good answer to his "You see, you have captors.
La arrested me for nothing. For this it was necessary to beLibre Belgique continues to ap- The principal of these journals always on guard, for the Germans pear while I am in prison."
We may here mention that, for were much read, because they employed innumerable ignoble were the only channel for procur- tricks to make their ing news of the war. It then speak. One of my friends received this some reason, La Libre Belgi became essential to oppose by a
in his drink a drug which affected que was forced from time to time to pro-Allied Press. necessarily his mental faculties, and in that continue publishing articles under clandestine,
enemy condition he was interrogated the names of persons who had poison..
with the hope of making him de-been arrested. For example, the covered four For name "Fidelis
contributors. The first effort (January 1915) nounce his accomplices.
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was very humble a simple sheet of execution. Arrested and he I remember, particularly, one of stencilled paper. But the success which attended it decided would be shot unless he de-occasion when all the copies were the creation of a clandestine nounced his comrades, he refus-seized as they were taken from the To save the journal. It took for its title Lued; he was then told the execution printing house. Libre Belgique, for its motto the WBS postponed a day. Silence. accused it was decided to reprint There followed eight days' post-the same number. Within three
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words of King Albert: I have ponement and again eight days. days this was printed and dis- faith in our destiny: a country Finally he was placed before atributed as usual. The printer which is so defended imposes respect on all. This country will firing squad, with eyes bandaged, who had been taken with the not die: God is with us in this and adjured to speak if he wished papers upon him was thus able to a distributor of to see his family again. He re-say he was only just cause." That strong sense fused, and was finally released. the journal. of humour which never quitted
The most picturesque of the the Belgians was represented by Discretion is certainly the "Editorial Offices: The Kom- master quality in such work it printing houses used was's card- mandatur. Brussels," with the consisted in not merely not reveal-board-box factory which dies gallant addition: "This journaling that which one knew, but also between the Gare du Nord and is submitted to no Censor." in not seeking to pierce that my-Laeken. Behind the wall in a etery which shrouded the editing. corner of these works was con- The tone of this journal was always calm, conveying the printing, and distribution of La structed, with great secrecy, a one person was arrested it would| Libre Belgique. The different space twelve feet by six feet, not lead to wholesale arrests evident intention of interesting collaborators were not krown to without door or windows, and which should endanger the work; and encouraging its readers under their burdens until the certain each other, and this sometimes only a trap in the ceiling by for that, not personal danger,
which the printer was let down was the incentive to prudence. led to amusing situations. hour of the Allied victory. During four years, more than 160 One day a friend stopped me with his materials to the machine. copies appeared, succeeding each and said "A suspicious person, installed. The walls were cover other at irregular intervals, by probably a German disguised, ised with thick draperies which the most diverse pens and by making propaganda for La Libre prevented the sound men of as diverse opinions. Belgique. You, good patriot, see machine from being heard with
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if you can stop this thing. On out. It took a month to establish inquiry I discovered the suspect this printing place and carry in ed person was no other than the press bit by bit. document and a monument, a myself, working in another part
The departure from the print- irrefutable evidence that the of the city under another disguise. ing house with the edition was twenty, forty, or fifty copies to Belgians never accepted the alien
always the most dangerous each. domination. It dispelled all Ger-
moment, and one for which many With every issue be spent two man falsehoods, and, as every The secret which explains how disguises were necessary. Some- fresh copy showed the useless the little journal resisted all the times it would be a butcher's nights going round the city, on ness of the German efforts, the perquisitions made against it was tricycle, bringing the ordered bicycle or on foot, placing packets Governor-General fell into a
so joint, which would conceal the in places agreed in advance, ary press.
And yet, with all this, a reputa fresh fury. The tone of the decentralised... The type was packet of pepers, sometima a roll, where the distributors sought
them next morning. These passed tion and a circulation perhaps direction was that of a free man prepared usually in the house of ostensibly of linoleum.
them on to smaller distributors, attacking openly the violator of
a good burgher who had taken: Those who took the respon- who were unknown to Bauch and without parallel in the annals of
journalism. Without exaggera justice and spurning the "feld
The care-sibility of the printing, alike with to whom he was unknown. Some refuge in London. gron" who had done all possible taker admitted the compositors. the compositors and editors, were times the packets were left in a
If it is said that the Press is nation but could not touch its soul closed in two elegeant attache themselves with the distribution, offices. In the latter case the
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enter the same lift as the distri-La Libre Belgique bas the right accustomed, and not without without exciting suspicion, even paper reached the hands of three gator, who would get out at the to a respectful and enthusiastic irony one of its articles concluded the compositors being ignorant or four chief distributors, who cond floor, leaving his parcel. salutation from her confreres of with the words, It is, in these where the actual printer lived.
red iso knew nothing of the printing, The former would steal the the great, Allied Press, who will sentiments, Monsieur the
the where the Governor-General, that we, your
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mga mission of the Press the most insuordinate in various places, and when distribution was organised with parcels get out at the third floor, recognise in her an organ which and the least respectful of your danger arose or suspicion seemed the greatest prudence so that if
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Note that this journal remain- One example may be given ofd, by the force of circumstances, those who paid for their devotion under conditions absolutely op nalistic enterprises. No sumptu- with their lives." Philippe Bauca,
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never ceased to say: "Do-not- mention us. No office list of subscriptions, no advertising de- partment, an occasional staff on which there was hardly one pro- fessional journalist, a rudiment-
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