Another Dutch journal, the _Algemeen Handelsblad_ of Amsterdam, arrived in Brussels at the beginning of November; but its licence was withdrawn at the end of a week. From February 1915 its sale was again authorized in Belgium. At the same time the introduction of a few other Dutch journals was permitted, their pro-German character being indubitable: such were _Het Vaterland_, _De Maasbode_, _De Nieuwe Courant_. _Newspapers introduced surreptitiously._ Let us say at once that despite all prohibitions and all the sentences pronounced, prohibited newspapers continue to trickle into the occupied portion of the country. These newspapers were at first those which were normally appearing in the towns not yet subject to German authority. Thus _La Métropole_ and _Le Matin_ of Antwerp, _Le Bien Public_ and _La Flandre Libérale_ of Gand were very soon carried as contraband and secretly sold in Brussels. Again, in the regions not yet invaded, some of the newspapers of the towns already occupied were printed: thus _L'Indépendance Belge_ of Brussels appeared at Ostend until the arrival of the Germans in that town. The agents who sold these newspapers had also foreign papers, especially French and English. Later, when all Belgium, save a corner of Flanders, was subjected to the Germans, a number of Belgian papers were printed abroad: _La Métropole_ and _L'Indépendance Belge_ in London and _Le XX^e Siècle_ at Havre. We also used to receive from time to time occasional newspapers published by Belgian refugees abroad. Of these we may cite: _L'Écho Belge_, of Amsterdam, _La Belgique_, of Rotterdam, _Les Nouvelles_, and _Le Courrier de la Meuse_, of Maastricht. It will be understood that prohibited journals are rare. On certain days, when the hunt for the vendors is particularly fruitful, people will offer fifty francs, or even two hundred, for a copy of the _Times_. As it is chiefly across the Dutch frontier that the smuggling of the English "dailies" is carried on, the authorities have enacted measures which grow more and more Draconian relating to the traffic across this frontier. By the end of 1914 it had become practically impossible to enter Belgium from Holland by the ordinary route (_see_ the _Düsseldorfer General-Anzeiger_ of the 20th December, 1915). The smugglers of journals are therefore obliged to insinuate themselves in secret, and their trade is not without danger; only in the suburbs of Putte (province of Antwerp) the German sentinels killed two of them in December 1914. Since the spring of 1915 the frontier has been guarded with barbed wire and wires traversed by high-tension electric currents; the crossing has naturally become more difficult. But "difficult" is not "impossible." _Secret Propagation of News._