Cologne, September 26. Today we are also omitting the synopsis. 
We are hurrying to print the paper. We are being informed by a 
reliable source that the city will be placed in a state of siege within 
an hour or two, that the civic militia will be dissolved and 
disarmed, that the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, the Neue Kolnische 
Zeitung, the Arbeiter-Zeitung and the Wachter am Rhein will be 
suspended, that courts martial will be instituted and that all the 
rights gained in March are to be suppressed. It is reported that the 
civic militia is not inclined to let itself be disarmed. 

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[EDITORIAL STATEMENT CONCERNING 
THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE NEUE RHEINISCHE 
ZEITUNG] 

Due to the interest shown, particularly in Cologne, for the 
preservation of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, we have been able to 
overcome the financial difficulties brought about by the state of 
siege and to let the paper reappear. The editorial board remains the 
same. Ferdinand Freiligrath has newly joined it. 

Karl Marx 
Editor-in-Chief of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung