Show con with le ari no flie methods 3 c authorities for communicating with ahe th jim vinces during daring the siege biege of paris were persevering and ingenious the fali pal means means of sending letters was by balloons oc and carrier pigeons but many 1 other er plans were tried it was impossible R fora messenger to get through tha a german lines linea even when mothr other difficulties could be overcome o the din ger of a search and a discovery of the tha dispatch was great M many MY of the messengers made incisions in the skin and hid a dispatch under I 1 the epidermis others provided themselves with hollow ten centime pieces or hol low boyr keys which could be opened me a box and in which dispatches dis could lya ba hidden bidden one was accustomed to hide his under tinder an artificial hollow tooth these Ais dispatches patches of ofa course were wera written in ci cipher phirl and covered only a fragment rag ment merkt of paper enem attempts tt were made maae to cross the y lines by following the caves and natural tunnels under the left branch of the seine and by diving band and crossing the tha bed of the tha river in diving suits but these plans tailed jk A curious scheme schema was the putting of letters into little hollow spheres of zinc and throwing throw inq these spheres into the seine or its tributaries tributa ries hoping that they w would float to paris they did float to paris but not until after the armistice it was supposed that they were stopped by dams or that hat t they were discovered and held back by the germans until the riese riego was at an end youths companion |