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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1938-06-03, Page 6�3a t�4 rkg a2 ai rrtY ti ii rel n 1 A4a7r, ova-, e'Vcr Driveways e dmlveway and lawns come !'er! there is often a source of anoe to 'the gardener who der Tits,a to keep his layout Spic and span. U the -drives • are of cinders gravel, gehertisiated stone, ear wheels or the ynalgeters will often throw some of 'dale, mates -dal into the lawn with ap- palling results on a sharp lawn mow- e.r. Trhen again •t+he grass spreads . froru lawn into 'the ,.driveway and weedls travel in the other direction. X$ driveway and lawn can be rigidly separated with a permanent curb, then.much trouble will be averted. To do this many people are using low hedges or a curb of flag stones sunk deep on edge. If shrubbery is decided upon then any of the spdreas, barberry or other small to medium height shrubs are used and either capped once a year er allowed to groat naturally. Shrubbery for this purpose is planted about• 18 inches to , two feet apart, depending upon mature height. It must have good sail and is best watered occasionally during the first season. Sometimes„ shrubbery for the first year or two is rein:foreed by a few strands.pf heavy wire fastened securely to stout stakes painted,,, brown or green. Stone Curb and Weed Killers When stones or brick are used they must be securely anchored in the earth or concrete. Only two inches lett above the surface of drive and lawn will be necessary. If higher there will be difficulty in •moving close with the lawnmower. Grass, of course, is grown right up to the edge of the stones. To prevent grass or weeds growing among bhe gravel or FULL VALUE FOR YOUR Printing Dollar There's a commonly used expression: "You get just what you pay for.” The rule applies to almost everything you buy—printing included. Good printing can't be produced at a poor price. Poor printing, even at a low price, is expensive, because it gives the prospective customer the impression that your service or product is not up to standard. We give full value for every dollar you spend with us for printing—and our prices are always fair. Let us figure , with you . when you are ready to place another printing order. Just Phone 41 The x 'or cinders, gardeners are advised to spray with some of the oomrmtrcial weed killers now available. If not handy, gasoline will do the triek, Care must be exercised to keep these killers away from wanted grass, flowers or shrubbery. Another suit- able material for weeds or grass in -dviveways is common salt, the cheap- er and coarser the better. Not only will a liberal application of 'this about ,one or two to a handful to the square foot destroy grass, weeds, poison ivy, etc., but it will also•,bind gravel to- gether into an even surface, keep down dust and repel frost. In some parts of Canada salt is used pe all gravel roads•and gives a surface eq- ual• to light pavement. Insects and Diseases Garden insect enemies are divided into two groups ---those that eat holes in the foliage and ,those that suck out the juices. For the first named, poisons is usually applied, while the suckers are attacked with a burning spray which penetrates. Often when bath are present, a combination of poison and something that burns, such as lime sulphur acrd arsenate, gives 'the best results. The damage from rhe biting insects is usually quite apparent, but the presence of the other kind is only shown at first by a wilting or withering of the fol- iage. Fob- sucking pests, chief of which are the aphids or plant lice, spray with whale oil soap, a quarter pound of soap to a gallon and a 'half of water; nicotine sulphate, or 'Black Leaf 40,'- or any other repellent se- cured from• a reliable seed Store. Fungus When fungus attacks .the plants, the foliage usually turns yellow or brown, or white spots like mildew cover the leaves, Fungus is most common in warm, murky weather. Spraying with Bordeaux Mixture, or dusting with specially finely g youn d sulphur is advised. Sulphur dust will also protect hollyvhocks and phlox from rust, if applied when oho disease first shows itself. Cut worms, which eat through newly set out plants at the base of the stem, are poisoned by spread- ing sweetened bran mixed with Paris green or special mixtures about the plants. Where there are only a few plants to protect the same may be 1 rovided with paper collars. • Still Time Even in the warmer sections of Canada it is quite possible to have a splendid garden from a start mace in Jute. As a matter of fact more Canadian geed -ens are damaged by too early rather than too late opera- tions. Many flowers and vegetables make little growth during the cooler spring weather and very often there is fatal damage from frost. In any case, h'oti•evet, even if the main plant- ings have been made of flowers and vegetables trhere are still plenty of things to plant which will come on after the first bloom or first vege- tables are over. Experienced garden - ere in recent years 'have been pur- posely bolding back a portion of let- tuce, spinach, carrot and other vege- table seeds so that the harvesting season may be extended just that much. longer. Early June is the ideal time in most of Canada to plant seed of those hot weather things like melon, cu- cumber, m:ediusn or'- late corn and beans. It is not safe in. many dis- tricts to set out celery, tomato, cab- bage and pepper plants much sooner. There is still plenty of time to plant Dahlia, Gladiolus and Canna bulb's Or CO rms. The Collie Knows His Muttons (Robert H. Davis in "Bob Davis" Abroad") There is nothing more marvelous in glorious, green Scotland• than the Cel - tie sheep dog. One shepherd said he would "gi' me a somple o' sheep -dog intelligence wi'out worruds." He stood at the edge of an open field and whis- tled sharply two long, shrill notes. From a cottage in a nearby grove, a black Collie came bounding across the turf. Twenty yards from his master, the dog stopped' and stood at atten- tion, his eyes questioning the shep- herd- On the slope of the hill grazed a flock of sheep, scattered in pairs, trios and larger groups, covering per- haps 50 acres. I was requested to se- lect, anywhere within a radius of 500 yards, three sheep that were grazing together. I chose three that were browsing among some gray granite rocks; at a casual glance they might easily have been mistaken for part of the landscape. Without speaking a word the shep- herd, resorting ter gestures, sent the Collie up the hill through a dozen other groups of sheep, and had him work the three sheep down to the meadow within 20 feet of where toe stood. Not =other sheep on the hill- side was in the least disturbed. Then the sheenterd sent the dog with the sheep back to the exact spot where he had collected them. Ae a further test, he had him cut out a single sheep—of my selections -which he drove down to the cottage. There the Collie opened the gate of a small corral, worked the sheep in and- dos- ed the gate after it. - ' A well-trained sheep dog can inter- pret 'the algae of his master at a dis- tanee of tine* miles. It is not urins- val for a shephrerd -+io send his dog out to brinfg In ''sheep that are picked dirt With a field: glass.- kzrgo. �,� Innocence (Condebeed from Ken in. Reader's Digest) The crack new British destroyer "Tremendous" was idling on patrol duty off the north: coast of Spain in the summer of 1937 when a wireless message was brought to the Com- mander "Stanch by to escort French trawler Argonne with cargo Spanish refu- gees," Forty-eight hours later came an- other: "French trawler delayed. Stand by to receive forty-two refugee* at dawn." Long ..before dawn the "Tremen- d•ous" was at the appointed place with all her guns ready for action in case of an attempt at interference. Pres- ently two fishing 1Foats came creeping silently out of the mist and in a few moments were alon•gs•ide. A messen- ger ran up to the bridge, "Mr. Caning's compliments, sir. Copy esf the list of refugees." The, Commander's eyes opened wide as he began to read: 1. Jose Ramon Esquenra. Aged 7 months. Orphan. -2. Maria Dolo Carrion. Aged m 1 year 2 months. Orphan. 3. Manolo Juan Useavilla. Aged 11 months. 'Orphan. The Commander looked up and saw baby after baby being handed on board, ctecked by the boatswain, and delivered with the utmost solemnity into the arms of one of the Able Sea- men who were drawn up iri lisle. The young Lieutenant in charge cast an agonized glance up at the bridge from time to time, as though he were ex-• pecting some thunderbolt to fall. But the Commander was speeohless. Twenty-two babies he counted, and after that a sorry procession of ten woolen and all except three .had bab- ies in their arms, too. If a herd of locusts had descended on ;his ship and started to eat the brasswork the Commander couldn't have been more bewildered. •As he watched, one of the elder children broke away from his temporary nurse, tripped on the deck and instantly set up a full-throated Latin yowl. This was thesignal fomostr of the other c c t L•illren po begin. From end to end d the ship became one lusty lament. Summoning the: Chief..Petty Officer t he Comma nder °demanded : "Who's going on, Huggins? Who's to look ' after these children?" "Looks to me as though he was, sir." "H'm. You've checked the list? Ara they all -pres•ent and correct?" "Well, yes and no, sir." "How do you mean—'yes and no'?" "Well, sir, three of the children ain't exactly born yet, sir," "But my God, Huggins, we can't have children born on this ship!" "No sir; but if that dratted French trawler don't arrive soon, sir, it's my re -anion you will 'ave, sir," The Commander passed a hand diz- zily over his forehead. Huggins still stood at attention, "Any more orders this morning, sir?" -• "No, no," the Commander said wearily, "that will be enough." - All that morning the ether vibrated with agonized messages from the Tremendous: "Have taken on board ten women and thirty-two babies. Whrat am I to do with them?" The flagship, at a safe, comfortable distance, gave the unfeeling answer: "Await French trawler and feed them. Presume you have adequate stores condensed milk. Rum ration riot recommended." The Tremendous answered with a more urgent appeal: "Refugees include three women li;, able give birth any moment. Please advise." To this the reply was a little more helpful: -. "Adequate nursing staff on French trawler. Should arrive within forty- eight hours. Postpone delivery if pos- sible," The Oomnnander realized that no help was -.forthcoming from the flag- ship. The bridge and his- own quar- ters seeme-d to be the only part of the ship not flooded with squalling in- fants.- He was reluctant to leave this stronghold, but he forced himself to make an unofficial inspection. Var- ious strange sights met -his eyes: Able Seaman MacIlroy trying to sa- lute with a -baby tucked under each arm; a wonnan with no expression wthatsoever, mechanically hunting for lice in th.e rags of the child at her breast; a girl aged three firmly clutching her brother, aged twe, and trying to pretend that she wasn't frightened at this strange iron world; and finally, Able Seaman Farrier do- ing his best to comfort a misery -soak- ed woman, "'Ere!" the was saying rather loudly, "supposing I got you a nice cup of tea. That'll make you Leel better in no time." ' The woman' just gazed at him un- compreh,endingly, ,an'd the Command- er stepped over a crawling infant and walked on. All the women seemed to have that same glazed;•• hopeless look, and the children's large' brown eyes were far too big for their pinched fades- The Commander passed on saying noth- ing, quite u',bending; but ,when he went back to the bridge he burst out passionately ti the seaman on duty: "God, how I hate all people who start fightieg!" - The seaman said, "Yes, sir," in the same .tone he which be replied to ev- erything else the Commander said, The Commander sent, for the Chief Petty Officer again, "Wihat about quarters for these wo- men, Hugging?" "They'll ave the men's quarters; sir.,. The 'men will sleep on deck. "And the -ei---the other three?" "The officers 'ave tubmed out for them, sir-" lotted two babies and a tin bathtub to each and gave instructions, During ttbe"-next 24 hours the Oil- dren were 's'ubjected to a strange mix- ture of navy and • nursery discipline. The .great moment of the day was the" bath { parade at six o'clock when all the tubs were placed in a Tow on deck, A whistle blew and the mar- ried men marched' up with a baby un- der each arm. Another whistle and the babies were undressed. Yet an- other whistle and the washing began. This was the signal for an outhneak of cbmm•unity yelling; but that 'was soon stilled, and the Commander, watching from the ba•idge, was grati- fied to see that some of the children were actually laughing. A play -pen was built just aft the torpedo tubes amidsihdps, andthe ml`a:gried men took their watches thele instead of in their usual stations- The children's filthy rags were gradually discarded, and many of them fitted out in strange bits of old navy uni- forms. The Commander noticed one d r�+ .and eyed child in a curious garment which appeared to be made of the pajamas which he himself intended to wear next week; but he said nothing. There were other more serious mat- ters to attend to. All that night - th,ere • was a series of messages •to the Commander from the ship's car- penter, who was plaeed in routine charge of the delivery room by virtue of being married to a. midwife, and from the Commander to the flagship The news from the latter was reas- suring, and the news from below was still unalarming. • As the blue-eyed iLeutenant unfotunatily expressed it: "All theeehLvomen holding their own, sin" But at dawn a ssenger appeared. "Mr. Canning's • compliments, sir. Perez given birth to a boy. Mother and child both doing well-" The Commander leaned against the deck'h'ouse in relief. But almost im- mediately there was a message from the wireless room: "Frenc+h trawler gone aground. Re- gret no further assistance pos•siblle. If very urgent proceed Bordeaux. Dis- embaY•kre ant women. Otherwise P gr- proceed' direct Portland with all refu- gees. Good luck." The ship was ringing with orders for full speed to .Bordeaux when yet another appeared. messenger ear d . "Mr. Canning's compliments, sir. Cheverra given birth to a girl. Mather and child bath doing well," The ease and simplicity with which it happened was nearly the Command- er's undoing. He was beginning to think -that a lot of unnecessary fuss was' made about this business of bear - ng Children. It seemed to him that His Majesty's Navy handled this af- fair, like most others, much better. Besides, he had never been a man to leave any job half done, and he was now so overconfident that he imagin- ed that hie ship and his men ' were capable of dealing with any em'e•rg- ency. So, after a hurried consultation with Chief Petty Officer Huggins, the orders were changed and the "Tre- mendous" sailed direct for Portland. Forthe first day everything went well. The sun was sthin'ing and the children had taken with delight to the play -pen and the bathing parade. Even some of the adults were begin- ning to show some willingness to live. Then at eight bells on the second day, the labor of the third woman be- gan- This was a very difficult affair from the other two. For 16 hours it went on. The whole ship's company knew that if only gone to Bordeaux it would have been all right. It was actually as if the ship's honor were involved; and the whole 125 officers and men, ex- cept when they were actually on du- ty, paced up and down the deck with hands behind -their backs, like one agitated husband. For a long tisie distressing mes- sages came from the makeshift ob- stetrical ward. But at last, after a sleepless night, a messenger caime rushing to the bridge. "It's all right, sir, it's all right!" he cried. Then he remembered him- self. "Beg pardon, sir- Mr. Can- ning's compliments,'" sir. Escarmota given birth to a boy. Mother and child both doing well." The Com+mand'er had full control of himself again. He never fliclted nn eyelid. "My compliments to Mr. Canning," he replied, "and ask him to issue a special ration to the whole ship's company." The -entry into Weymouth Harbor was a triumph. Half the Home Fleet was concentrated there, and the story had already gone round: bugie•s sounded and signals- of congratula- tions were run up as the "Themen- dous" passed. Tihe Commander was satisfied with his week's work;, he had been given a job to do and he had done it without assistance and without loss, and as he passed the Admiral's flagship, he had his whole ragged cargo of children standing at the salute in front of the ship's coan- pany. Later, the Admiral, egged on by his wife, it is true, wrote quite seriously to the Admiralty, shggesting that the names Perez, Cibeverra and Escarxnota should be permanently included in the "Tremendous's" Battle Honore. This request the Lords! Commis - stoners somewhat abruptly refused ; in which dteci'Siori some people still Milk they were matte wrong. "Good. And these children; they're filthy dirty, Huggins. They must be washed and looked after," "Yes, sir." "Order a -parade of all the married men at once." "Very good, sir." Within a short 'time the Commnand- er WAS inspecting trio married ,men dt'dwn tp in line, while Huggins al - 'La .mitre Belgique' (Condensed from "Un.'demgrou+nd. Newsin Reader's, Digest) In August, 1914, when the first gray wave of German soldiers swept into Brussels, every B'ebgdan newspa- per .immediately ceased publication to avoid the Indignity of enemy censor- ship. The German Gove'amor-Genea°al's first aot was •to subsidize a French, language newspaper, ' named the Bruxellois, which made a great show ref impartiality in its pres,entataon of war news. The German's expected it to be a valuable medium of propa- ganda. It probably would have been but for Victor Jourdain. For 30 years this 74 -yew -old editor of the Patriote had preached faith in the treaties guaranteeing Belgium's nedtraldty„, and had opposed prepare - none for war. Then, with no warn- ing but a brutal ultimatum, Belgium 'was overrun. The invasion demon- strated the tragic fallacy of Jour- d•ain's policy. Suffering from a sense of personal resporksibility for his na- tion's helplessness, he •determined• to publislh a secret newspaper which would expose the perfidy of the Brux- ellois. He found an able ally' in his 38 -year-old kinsman, Eugene van Dor- "Well, thi worst of our spring cleaning le over." "What is that?" "Oh, my wife has burned up all the valuable papers in my desk.`' .P1 PIPE TOBACCO FORA MI LI?, COOL SMOKE The project was daring to the -point of folly. By October, 1914, Governor- General von Bussing had made Brus- sels a vast concentration camp. Ev- ei'yone had to carry an identity card bearing a photograph, and men be- tween the ages of 18 and 40 had to report regularly at the Komanandan- tui, The streets were patrolled day and nigrh't by armed military police, and special brigades of secret police, employing agents provocateurs, had been organized. From time to time curfew orders 'were issued at a few hours' notice and enforced with rifles. !::very day brought some addition to 'he list of "crimes"; it was a ..crime• to take snapshots, to make sketch -es; "to put up or expose or distribute any written text, engraving or illustra- tion" not submitted to the censor; to whistle patristic airs, ter wear any- thing recalling the national colons of any of the Allies'. Such were' the conditions when Jourdain and Van Doren 'began pub- lishing their secret paper. They en- listed the help of a printer in an out- lying suburb, and worked out plans for an underground distributing .or- ganization-. Eugene van Doren him- self distributed ball of the thousand copies comprising the first issue, his parcels of 50 copies hung in festoons under a roomy .overcoat. On February 1, 1915, a pretty girl coyly delivered a scented pink envel- ope to the sentry in front of Von Bissing's offices. For His Excellency, personally, and very important- Would the orderly be kind enough to deliver it? The orderly did. Von Kissing op- ened it to find the first copy of La Libre Belgique. Thusbegan a battle of wits in which the beat brains of the German Secret Service, all the forces et the German military police, and, all the Governor -General's powers of coercion pitted themselves against the elusive Libre Belgique. To the defiant title, itself a direct challenge to the German authorities, Van Doren bad added a note of inso- lent mockery: "Bulletin of Patriotic Propaganda — Regularly Irregular — Submdtting to no Censorship." "The aim of La Libre Belgique," Sourdain wrote, "is to strengthen Bel- gian patriotism until the hour, still unknown but certain-, of the deliver- ance of our country, and to refute the calumnies hawked by the censored press against Belgium and her Al- lies." Within a month of its appearance there was not a soul in Brussels who had not heard of La Libre Belgique. In six weeks the paper• wasappear- ingg twice weekly with a circulation of 5,000 copies. The scheme of circulation was built upon a series of distributing circles, continually growing until bundreds were involved, radiating from Van Doren. He remained unknown to all except the vital contacts in the next circle, and even. to those he posed as a simple distributor. No one beyond Van Doren knew of Jourdain's con- nection with the affair. Th.e secret of the system was so well kept that many of the collaborators didn't dis- cover until after the war that their closest friends and neighbors were fellow' conspirators- Even. the man wtbo was in control of the paper at the close of the war dlidsat know the names of any of the editors who had preceded him, nor of the majority of the contributors, whose material reached him through devious chan- nels. • When the paper continued to ap- pear, week after week, it became a nightmare to Von Biasing and to the German secret police. It turned up exasperatingly int Von Bissing's mail; it was found in unexpected places in his own quarters in Brussels; and moreover, it was completely neutral- izing the work of his- expensively sub- sidized "inspired press." Something had to be dope quickly. WithTeutonic thoroughness the city was combed. Day atter day raid- ing parties burst into news agents' stores and bookstalls. Edery printing "shop known to the German police was raided. - Soon Van Doren realized that his suburban printer could not hope to avoid suspicion much longer, and he decided to take a daring" step. There was an empty factory back of his haute -and in one corner of the fac- tory was an embrasure which, if con- li sealed by a m'as'king wall, would form a perfect secret chamber some 13" feet by seven. There he installed this press. Bricks were brought in -one at a time and a wall .closing the em- brasure was built, whitewashed and suitably dirtied. In the corner of the loft above, two boards were loos'en'ed to allow entrance, and -the trap was concealed beneath a heap of lumber, This hideout wad to be safe for al- most a year. ]'or a celebration, Van Doren plan- ned a streCial mnmberl- ".a treat for our friend',Von Biasing." Lal, Libre Belgique, No. 30, dated dune 1, 1915, appeared with Its first illustration, a portrait of Von. Bisahn+g cleverly fak- ed tO l'ePregalit hi= Wading La Libre correspondents ,(Continued from Page -2) utas were NOT continued, for some reason, that might be news. 2. Similarly, tt isn''t necessary to: say "The • Meeting adjourned." P]v- erybody„ knows it must" have adjourn- ed or ,it'would be going yet: (These two tangs would' starp you as an "amateur" if you apP'lied for a job on a big city paper). 3. Don't say "Hymn. 451 was sung" or "Luke 6:6" was reatd. A moment's thought will ,show the season why. Who knows. what Hymn 451 is ajldout? Who is going -to get a hymn: 1 &b1t- end look it uf? Three to one, the reader belongs to some other denom- inati.4'n anyway and hasn't' that hymn book. Instead of interesting, the. read- er, you are annoying him—and that'e bad! For similar reasons, it may be proper to refer to "The 23rd Psalm," since- at least a large proportion et. the readers know it by number, but other Bible references by number of chapter and verse 'are taboo. - 4. Be careful -how you use the word "very." This doesn't seem important to you, but you do not know how ser- iously the word is 'over-worked. In most .cases, it adds nothing worth while. For instance, the paragraph would sound no better if it was re- written': "Be very careful how you use the word; 'wrryy.' This doesn't seem very important to you, but you do not know how very seriously the word is overworked." 5. Give more prominence to the main items, less to mere. routine. Dont start your sentences with "then." (It is unnecessary). . Re- member that a newspaper report dif- fers from the • minutes kept by the secretary. It isn't con•sid•ered• good form to use the letters indicating de- grees each as "B.A.," ((Reg. N." or "D -D." in ordinary news items, though people who should know better do use them, but im special cases, as in engagement and wedding announce- ments, or where 'the degree has some direct bearing on what is being done, the men -tion -of these degrees is not only permitted but encouraged, One other hint. Long experience has shown newstpatper editors that "what,' "bow," "Why" and. "'who" are more interesting than "when,' or "where." For that reason, it is wiser not to start out by writing: "On Tuesday last, en the main street,• an accident happened to Mrs. A., which sent her to the hospital." Mrs. A's accident is the interestitsg thing and should be mentioned first, or the reader may skim over the opening wordsantl thinking them uninterest- ing,' skip that item entirely. Finally, it is only fair to add that these rules are not of our creation, They have be -en discovered over the centuries by a multitude of writers and editors. We hope that this was what our correspondent wanted. In reporting Institute meetings, as in all other cases, it might be suggested that the things which interests the press correspondent the •niost is prob- ably the things which will interest the newspaper readers also. - Belgique. The caption read: ' "Our dear Governor, sickened by the lies of the censored papers, seeks the truth in La Libre Belgique." This ex- asperated the Governor- He took it out on the civilians in a thousand petty tyrannies. Finally Van Doren's principal dis- tributor was discovered and executed. The distribution service was reorgan- ized eorganized with greater caution. Instead of going to the houses of his sub -distri- butors, Van Doren met thein at some prearranged place: in a store, in a tram shelter pr a. cafe, and never at the samie place twice in succession, A favorite rendezvous was in the lifts at one of the big stores. With- out a sign of recognition he and his distributor would go up together. At the first floor, Van Doren would get out, leaving a parcel of La Libre Bel- gique with his confederate. By the end of 1915, the distribution service extended over all occupied ter- ritory. So severe was the surveil- lance on some routes that it frequent- ly took two days to make a 30 -mile journey. Secret police patrolledf all roads leading into towns, and were authorized to shoot anyone who ran away when summoned to open a par- cel. Yet there was no lack of volun- teers to distribute La,I.ibre Belgique, Young girls made hazardous trips, carrying the papers under their skirts. One man carried, them', wrapped around his body; some papers were transported in parcels of fish marked "Perishable." The arrest and execution of some link in the' chain was an almost daily _occurretrce. On the 13th of April, 1916, Van Doren had. just flnishedi sup- per when one of his daughters spied the police congregating in front of the drouse. He barely had time to seize a coat and, still in carpet slip- pers, clamber. over the rear garden wall. Mrs. van Doren was arrested and taken to be questioned, That in- terrogation became a veritable pro- cession; every few .minutes another prisoner was brought in. About the only chief conspirator not implicated en this debacle was Jourdain. Thdn came the news that the clandestine press had been ak overed aa.] copy for La Lib,•e LItegique co•ttl',cated, The disaster c es complete. Mrs. Van Doren spent' two and a half 'months in --a. dell as hostage for herhusband, and then was relea'ted. The trial of the others, all accused of "Thigh treason " ended with the. sen- tence of 43 out of 46 to varying fines, terms of ,penal servitude up to 12 years,. and some to German concen- tration camps. Van Doren remained ,hidden in a friend's house for move than two years, but his usefulness to the paper was ended. Twelve days after the, devastating coup of the 13th of April, Von Bis 'sing found in 'his' mail a copy of Na 72 of La Libre Belgique, "with the editor's com'plimen'ts." He searched in vain for any reference to the mass arrests, for any trade of the shatter- ing blow. The articled' signed with the eaimeefamiliar pseudonyms, were fret one whit lese bitterly aggressive. Thus, as tappemed time' and again before and aftervwars, when the Ger• mans believed. they -had at last laid hands on the -'brains of the organize - tion," tite .paper immediately ;reap- I petrol to Stock thWitt. - ,, 4.1 t. Jourdaau ,had, found a new printer, sled had thrown copy together for Nos. 72 and 73. Within a few days of the appearance of No. 73, Jourdain was amazed to find a No. 74 of La. Libre Belgique in circulation- He guessed it must have been produced - by some isolated group trying to nuke their presence known, and he discovered that Albert Le Raux, a stat'oner, hitherto head of the dis- tributing organization,. was respon- sible. As the German police were now c;ose to the trail of Jourdain, ha let Le itoux ' b.ecome the hub of the crgariization. To minimize suspicion, two printers were used. alternately: - In March, 1917,- another series of blows fell in quick succession, and Le Roux himself was betrayed by a . reader. He was away from his shop when the police came for him, and his wife marlaged to warn him, so on the night of March 31st he escaped ) from the country- P.pd now the young Abbe van 'dem flout took charge of the paper- He was a man of cold, implacable ener- gy, and by regarding La Libre Bel- gique'as a game to be played as hard as was humanly possible, he manag- ed to stay in• the mobile editorial chair for the remainder of the war— almost two years. In January, 1918, the police struck again. The pick of the German coup- ter -espionage operatives had gone- re- lentlessly to work and had arrested roost of the contributors and distribu- te rs, and had even surprised the 1 ditien of the r witha whole e to printer piper. The capture of practically the wtole staff of La Libre Belgique and the suppression, "final and complete" of tee clan -destine paper was front- page news in -Germany. At the Kom- mendantrfr in Brussels there was wild •• exultation. Two days after the big coup the new Governor-General, Von Falkenhausen, gave a banquet to the secret police. It was a memorable occasion. A telegram of congratula- ••"" tions was read from the All Highest, and Von Falkenb.ausen and this guests drank in champagne to the death of La Libre Belgique- As- the dinner was drawing to a close aa orderly entered, saluted, and handed to Von Falkenhausen a sealed envelope, marked "Urgent" Negligently the Governor-General tore it open—and withdrew a copy of La Libre Belgique No. '143. White and trembling with. anger - he crushed the paper in his hands, flung it aside and strode from' the room. '- His guests smoothed out the crump- led paper and gathered round to see what had provoked .the Governor's rage. Among the words they read were these: "For three years it rias been decided to put a.n end to us, and for three years we have surviv- ed, , , - And so long as a German remains on our soil we will be there to oppose and defy 'him; so long as Right and Justice are violated we will be there to protest; so lung as they try to conceal the Truth, raising ever higher the walls of our prison, we will be there to fling -the Truth in the face of our gaolers. . . - We will hold out to the bitter end. . . To complete their mortification the baffled sleuths found. that the articles were signed with the pseudonyms and bore the unmistakable imprint of the style ,pf the .mer- whose capture they had just been celebrating. They would have found the situation no less in- furiating had they known that somo of the articles were written in: prison and smuggled out under their very roses, in the hollow handle of a food hamper which the prisoners were reg- ularly permitted to receive. A few days before, when Van den Lout's description and photographs Were circulated, -he was faced with two alternatives—to leave the country or go into hiding. He did neither. He let his 'beard grow and., with a clever disguise, he became Monsieur Court- ade, barrister, With a• faked identity card the remained that 'character un- til the end of the war. He was often in danger of starvation because he had no official existence, no legal domicile and therefore no place on the rations list. But he survived and got out the paper. And so La Libre Belgique contin- ued 'on its gallant way, tormenting the oppressor with undiminished zest. Its editorials' determined national pro- cedure on the many problems that a- rose in the difficult relations between the Belgian people and the enemy oc- cupant, and this endowed the pager with importance over and above the moral stimulation its mere appear- ance gave the oppressed people: IID to the very end, La Libre Belgique cautioned: "Belgians, calm! Keep your heads ami your dignity to the end-" There were many faces missing when King Albert rode back into his capital at, the head of tris victorloua troops in 1918. Some of the staff of La Libre Belgique slept in the bursa( ground hard by thine place of execu- tion. Others lay beneath .numbered, graves - in German prison( camps, while others, namtelese couriers, were bleaching skeletons hanglm;g on the frontier wires.' And cad Victor join': dein, had. died On. the eve of the vie - tory which he 'had never, ceased to proelaiin, But La Libre Belgique was there, 2+00,000 Copies of it, recalling with leg- .itimate pride the' bold oath made just 12 months before in the. 135th issue: "'Coat What It may, we s'olemnnly swear ft, Your Majesty will find proclaim- ing him, on the day of his triurpthall entry into bis be:oved capital, a spa- tial edition of Ju? Libre fl'eigique." lit 6 4 4, 1 a. • N • 4 s M, 3 1 9 3 a e 0 m