SECRET NEWSPAPERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 52, 13 May 1942, Page 5

SECRET NEWSPAPERS

A further development of 'V Army activities throughout Europe is the establishment of secret newspapers which circulate in nearly every country of occupied Europe, despite the utmost efforts of the Germans to suppress them. The editors and writers on all these papers are carrying on the, struggle against their oppressors at the risk of their lives. They know that one of the most important weapons of the 'V Army in its fight against the Nazis is the distribution of authentic news. In Holland there arc two .such papers, both with good circulations, one of which is a stencilled students' paper. The students' paper is sent to a big mailing list through the ordinary post, but the Germans have not been able to step it or discover its source. Belgium, thanks to her people's experience in the last war, is expert ■it producing clandestine papers. There are fifty one secret Belgian papers. They are run by different' parties in both Flemish and French. In Pc-land there are forty seven clandestine bulletins circulating, while the various clandestine French papers include dailies and weeklies with circulations in many thousands. The chief source of news for these secret newspapers is the BBC European Service, broadcast in over 20 languages.