Show ciphered dj d j hered messages voil foil enemy ID but ut sometimes they backfire AI glistening LISTENING operators in recording dins room of the british britis broa broadcasting corporation london listening to stations throughout the world when they strike an interesting or mysterious brou broad cast its S switched to ff the fa recorder ONDON two british se IE ENDON cret service agents were arrested in germany recently after the nazis had intercepted their coded radio communications thus was completed a th thrilling rilling if unsuccessful chapter in wartime use of ciphered messages a procedure developed during the world war and being used by an all participants in the present war in london berlin paris and other key cities code specialists are con scantly chantly scanning the ether tor for secret messages phonograph ran down clever tricks are often used to toll foll the enemy during the world war the allies puzzled tor for months over last fast gi gibberish beerish signals broadcast from the great german radio station at nauen records were made and studied in the allied de boding rooms but the mystery remained unsolved until one hot day on the mediterranean when british naval officers wet were e mixing cool drinks and listening to musical selections on their portable phonograph finally one officer said well all the records ex capt for some of the nauen lightning gibberish the record was started but the first officer forgot to wind the phonograph and none of his companions bothered to stir to in the heat beat suddenly an officer jumped to his feet the gibberish on the slowly turning record took form in recognizable code groups being a message from brorn the german high co command m to an outpost in east afrie africa a blunder cot cost a war A co code e blunder was responsible tor for Rus russian Russia sias 1 defeat in the world war discarding its old cipher in favor of a previously planned now new one the th russians invaded east prussia with bilth two armies through error only we one of the commanding generals had been given the new code so the field radio proved a boomerang neither army could read the others code consequently they resorted to clear or plain code which the germans had no trouble intercepting with this unexpected info information mation G general von hindenburg surprised the russians at t dannenburg Tann enburg on august 28 26 1914 and massacred the enemy A few weeks later the russian navy made up for the ardys loss having sunk a girman german battleship in the baltic a russian commander ordered that the german dead be picked out of the water and taken to land for i a decent burial one of the first things they found afi on the person of a dead officer was the lead binding of a code cod book dredging frantically they soon discovered the book itself and thus acquired not only the code then in use but the key to affie he whole system on which german naval codes were built aided prison escape codes have been used for centuries accor according dink to secret and urgent a new bobbs M merrall orlu book written by fletcher pr pratt it from ancient greece until today codes and ciphers have helped bellied win and lose wars have caused heads beads to roll and crowns to topple one of the i best such stories c omes comes from the civil war between charles I 1 of england and his co commons nimons i sir john trevanion locked in jail awaiting execution tor for participation in the quarrel received a long letter of condolence from a friend a few hours before his hl scheduled death that evening he asked to be taken lolien to the chapel for solitary devotions when the guards returned sli sir john was gone had cry cryptographers cryptograph ers examined the letter carefully they would bave descove discovered red that by reading every third letter after wh each comma the following Ines mesag sage was wa found panel at ekit end ot of chapel slides |