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BRAVE BELGIAN PRINTERS COPY FOR NAZI CHIEF LONDON,, Nov. 24. General von .Falkenhausen, German military comrprindant for Belgium, receives his copy of La Libre Belgiue, the Belgian clandestine newspaper, each time it is published, reports the Daily Telegraph. The delivery is secured by the “underground” organisation which is responsible for about 40 such newspapers throughout Belgium. A Belgian industrialist who has just arrived in England and has watched this organisation grow said that the post office was used regularly to circulate the clandestine newspapers. He revealed th.at no fewer than 121 persons were hidden by various families at one time, and in several cases they had been enabled to escape. A small party of prisoners had escaped with the assistaricri of a.railway worker. . Morhle among the Belgians is as high ds ever, he added. All attempts by the Germans to drive a wedge between them and the Allies are meriting with failure.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20659, 9 January 1942, Page 5
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