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JOURNALISTS OF FORTUNE.

WORLD MYSTERY UNSOLVED. The world mystery of La Libre Belgique, the patriotic Brussels paper, which made its appearance every week during the four yearß of German occupation, will never be solved, its authors announce in its farewell'number. The regular appearance of La Libre Belgique was a source of anger and mortification to the German administrators of the Belgian capital, who were forced to see it come from the presses weekly, and never were able to determine where it was printed nor who were its publisher.l:. And in no issue during all that time did the paper fail to assail in biting language the brutality of the German oppressors nor to proclaim unflinching faith in the future liberation of the Belgian people, and to urge resistance to the invaders to the last ditch. In the last number, issued on the day following the signing of the armistice, La Libre Belgique had this to say: "Many thrilling incidents might be told, but a history of La Libre Belgique is not possible. The work of free lances in whom every sentiment of good-will and of patriotism found their expression, it is better that the mystery which contributed so greatly to their power should remain. Journalists of fortune, we always promised ourselves to cease fire on the day when journalism hero ceased to be a guerilla warfare, and when our regular troops of the press should enter again the hattle. "Our mission accomplished, we are willing to step aside. We had sworn that the German would find us confronting him till the last day. We have faithfull v fulfilled the promise."

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Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5

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JOURNALISTS OF FORTUNE. Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5

JOURNALISTS OF FORTUNE. Taranaki Daily News, 8 May 1919, Page 5

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