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 of the pursuing allies says colliers ol liers they were equipped with a new cable that although no larger than a pencil carries three telephone and four telegraph circuits is laid alongside the road as fast as the troops advance this cable trans transmits mits ischam scrambled I 1 messages which if intercepted without a special device sound to the enemy like a series of meaningless squeaks and squeals |