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Show I YANKS EOUAL TO ALL TASKS. I. How cleverly the German? had I"!1 planned to carry on the war and how far reaching were their preparations 1 illustrated by the discovery of a wireless plant in Africa. The officers J of one of the gian radio plants conducted con-ducted by the American army of occu pation had their suspicions aroused j by the nature of the messages which ' were beirs sent rut from the Nauen tower near Eerlin, tnd after a long in vestigation they tame to the conclusion conclu-sion that the German government wan communicating with some foreign station. sta-tion. Working on that theory, they finally fi-nally discovered that in the mass of news and propaganda emanating from the Nauen tower w?s a code. Further, it developed that these code messages were addressed to a station in Africi. Oneo the Americans had worked ou the code it was easy to decipher th messages, which, 1 was told, really were harmless, but the German go-rrnnient go-rrnnient had been steeped in intrigue for so long that it was second nature to go the longest way around if Iheic wns an element of secrecy in such a course. At any rate, having the messages in iheir possession ,'he American wire less experts sat down to await the reply. re-ply. This came in due course and wa easily received by the American operators. oper-ators. Not so with the Nauen tower It seems that th waves were very weak and also that the German ampl1-fiers ampl1-fiers have been surpassed by those of the American radio service. Thf result re-sult was (hat the Germans never n ceived the message The officer in charpe of the American Ameri-can station is a bit of a wag He held up the message thtee davs and then st nt it through in perfectly Rood German Ger-man to the Nauen tower .addinc, 'So j BOrry, old man, your amplifiers are Dot up to the Yankee ones,' and th? Niuen tower operator was a goo 1 enough sport to ie;cnowledge the mOfl sage. Nothing has been heard of the African station since. The Yankee works less spectacularly than the Teuton, bui he pets there, just the same " oc |