Sometimes he found it under his plate, sometimes it came into his home with the vegetables, sometimes it was mailed to him in an official envelope of the German military headquarters itself, but, in spite of the fact that he offered 100,000 marks for information leading to the arrest of those concerned in publishing the paper. It availed him nothing, and when I left it was reported that every time he saw a copy of one of the Belgian secret newspapers he fell into a tan trum.
English and Dutch newspapers were smuggled into Belgium, Mr. Gibson continued, though a copy of a London paper sold as high as $30 at a time when the German authorities were doing their utmost to stop the smuggling. The papers smuggled in were rented by the hour and the owner would sit on a man's doorstep until he had finished it, when he would pass it on to receive another fee from the next customer. Mr. Gibson referred to Cardinal Mercier as "the splendid old figure whose work has undone the labors of many German army corps."
The stories of arson, pillage, murder, torture, and mutilation committed by according to Mr. Gibson, story, he said, will not be told until the Germans have been driven out of Belgium and northern France, when the population of the invaded districts will show the world the proofs of the German atrocities.
German Spies Poorly Paid. 