RISKY NEWS-RUNNING
HOW. BELGIUM HEAES iWAR : NEWS. Selling English newspapers in Belgium beneath the noses of the German, usurpers is a dangerous pursuit just now, but it is being done, nevertheless, though tho men in the business exact payment commensurate with the risks they run. The anxiety of the Belgians and neutrals shut up in Brussels is very keen for English news, for tho "official news" which the Germans allow to appear in local newspapers consists almost entirely of German "victories."So the people inside tho city have to rely for anthentio news entirely upon tho English and French papers which are smuggled into them, and passed stealthily from hand to hand. Newspaper running in these conditions ia & hamdons occupation. The newsrunner with smuggled papers whispers in the ear of a likely buyer, who proceeds to a place free from observation. There tho newsrunner follows liim, and produces from a large inside pocket one of the covetcd papers, for which as much as 10s. or £1. or even more, may bo demanded and paid. Ilecotillv three men engaged in this trado were fired upon liy German soldiocs. Two of them were wounded and sent as prisoners to Germany; tho third man escaped. The purchaser of an English or French nowspapor, if U rnthei; Imwisoaed at fined, <•
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2480, 5 June 1915, Page 5
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215RISKY NEWS-RUNNING Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2480, 5 June 1915, Page 5
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