In some degree to replace the newspapers, the printers conceived the idea of publishing little booklets relating to the war, but giving no direct news of the military operations. These publications were naturally subjected to the censorship, and many of those which were published before the decree of the 13th October, 1914, were prohibited; it was thus with the very interesting brochure, _M. Adolphe Max, bourgmestre de Bruxelles, son administration du 20th août au 26th septembre, 1914_, and the Nos. 1 to 10 of the booklets issued by Mr. Brian Hill. Illustrated postcards also were censored; the series in course of publication, representing the ruins of Louvain, Dinant, Charleroi, Liége, etc., had to be interrupted. Music even had to receive the official approbation (_see_ the placard of 27th March, 1915, p. 274). In short, it will be seen that our public life already very closely approached the German ideal: _Alles ist verboten_. To think that Belgium, so justly proud of her constitutional liberties, is now crushed, breathless, under the heavy Prussian jack-boot! _Authorized German Newspapers._ As a compensation for those which the German Administration felt obliged to suppress, it allowed us, about the 10th September, to receive some German newspapers--the _Kölnische Zeitung_, _Kölnische Volkszeitung_, _Düsseldorfer Tageblatt_, _Düsseldorfer General-Anzieger_, and also a few illustrated papers, notably the _Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung_, _Die Wochenschau_, _Du Kriegs-Echo_. At a later date other newspapers were tolerated: _Vossissche Zeitung_, _Berliner Tageblatt_, _Frankfurter Zeitung_, _Berliner Zeitung am Mittag_, _L'Ami du Peuple_ (a special edition, for Belgium, in French and German, of _Der Volksfreund_, of Aix-la-Chapelle), and also some new illustrated papers, for example, _Kriegsbilder_, _Zeit im Bild_, and above all the _Illustrierte Kriegs-Kurier_, published in German, Flemish, French, and English,[5] whose sixteen pages, all covered with illustrations, cost only 15 centimes: evidently an instrument of propaganda, subsidized by the Central Administration. We shall have occasion later on to insist on its veracity, if one may call it that. For a long time none of these journals reached us regularly.