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Show Allies Balk Nazis With Message-Scrambling Cable The destruction of telephone wires by the Nazis retreating from France and the Low Countries did not interfere with the communications communica-tions of the pursuing Allies, says Colliers. They were equipped with a new cable that, although no larger than a pencil, carries three telephone and four telegraph circuits, cir-cuits, is laid alongside the road as fast as the troops advance. This cable transmits "scrambled" "scram-bled" messages which, if intercepted inter-cepted without a special device, sound to the enemy like a series se-ries of meaningless squeaks and squeals. |