Belgium -- History -- German occupation, 1914-1918
(_b_) His daughter, Camille Pousseur, with 2 months' imprisonment,
because they frequently bought foreign newspapers and articles
from newspapers whose sale is prohibited; and further because the
daughter copied and collected, with the knowledge and permission
of her father, poems and articles hostile to Germany, containing,
for the most part, vulgar and obscene insults in respect of the
Emperor, the Confederate Princes, and the German Army; and because
she further, as one may fully realize from the careful manner in
which the numerous copies were made, communicated the originals to
others, and finally because Jules Pousseur admits that he has for
some time been engaged in forwarding letters, which is forbidden.
The terms of imprisonment will run from the first day of detention. The
copies and other writings will be retained.
_L'Ami de l'Ordre_, _4th April, 1915_.
_The German Censorship._
After the 20th August the eastern half of Belgium was thus deprived of
all intellectual communication with the outside world. For a fortnight
we were left absolutely without news. Then, from the 5th September,
the German Government permitted the publication of journals which were
carefully expurgated, and falsified by a rigorous censorship:[4] _Le
Quotidien_, _Le Bruxellois_, _L'Écho de Bruxelles_, _Les Dernières
Nouvelles_; and later _Le Belge_, _La Belgique_, _La Patrie_, etc., in
Brussels, _L'Avenir_ in Antwerp, and many more. Although submitted to
the censorship, the appearance of these newspapers was only provisional
and uncertain. _Le Bien Public_ reminds its readers of the fact in its
issue for the 13th December, 1914. All these journals were on occasion
suspended; for example, _Le Quotidien_, from the 9th to the 11th
December, 1914, without any reason being given; _L'Ami de l'Ordre_,
from the 2nd to the 7th September, 1914, for having printed an acrostic
regarded as insulting; and _Le Bien Public_, during the whole of May,
1915.
The illustrated journals were as much subject to the censorship as
the ordinary newspapers. Numbers 1 to 3 of _1914 Illustré_, published
before the arrival of the Germans, could no longer be exposed for
sale: No. 1 containing portraits of King Albert, Nicholas II, M.
Poincaré, and King George V; No. 2 the portrait of General Leman, and
No. 3 that of M. Max. From November onwards the issues were severely
edited, so that they contained, for example, scarcely any more
photographs of towns burned by the German army. The other illustrated
papers--_Actualité Illustré_, _Le Temps Présent_, etc., also had none
but anodyne photographs, such as portraits of the new masters, military
and civil.
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