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Asking For Trouble
ITHERTO there has been an
Inclination to dismiss reports)
of internal davestent with the Whelnetrasse and the German army na propaganda, Ind the well.
still don't
know
THAT are the Ger-
W
thenticated press reports from neutral sonnees proclaiming the strant and detration of former Comamader-in-Chief Field Marshni war? Not
man people think- ing about, this
the
party
con Blumberg and Ove other high officials left to keep watch German army officers, as well as
the highly mysterious death of upon the civil population,
the truth
-by-
G. Ward Price
"UIJT JT JO D JQIFS"
-"this
is in cipher"
but one of the simplest of all ciphers dear 10 schoolboys. Do you see how it works?*)
MAYBE it is simple.
But if
you tried to send a cable like this from Hongkong you'd be pulled up quickly.
Cipher is hard to break, un- less you have the key. But the British Intelligence Department broke the strongest German
I deals with all types of codes and ciphers.
The difference between a code and
General von Fritsel, inves little but the ordinary, stay-at- Fahrer das ist ein Moun! He instincts of the rank and file of ciphers during the last war. room for doubt that Hitler la find home citizen, too old to have knows what he is about! Shat the country will be without suc- luge { forsensingly difficult to pet been called up yet, who is Berlong und Delodier--what can cess a long as Germany re along with those who would nor consequently carrying on they do against him? First he mains flushed with victory. The cipher is this: In a code, a code- mally be regarded as lispensable his job as shopkeeper or conquera. Pobind; then he turns German who is not gripped by word (four, five or seven letters craftsman, or farmworker? on France and England, who will the party machine, however, is long) stands for maybe a whole sen- his either have to submit to our likely to become pacific when tence of message, whereas a cipher What Is he anying over 20-per-cent-watered beer while terms or be smashed to pieces." things begin to go wrong for his he sits at his Stammtisch I-as And the rest of the evening they call a table reserved for a would be devoted to discussion particular set of "customers.
during the present ertals.
side.
IR
a
It appears that von Blomberg in
ielter-for-letter affair, You usually need a code book or to become another victim of Hitler's extraordinary whine. By 1938 he
dictionary for codes, and the code hat already thrown over the one
It would be too much to ex-book can only hold a limited num- -man-who-had-made the allegiance
Ciphers express-more-exact-shades-ma of how Germany could best pect-any-weakening of spirit.in of phrases. of the Reichswehr to Nazism possi- In Nazi eyes, these older peo- divide up the British Empire.
Germany now, for she is at the of meaning, and so you can take it ble. The pretext wiw laughable ple count only as citizens of the
climax of her material prepara- that Hitler's message was sent in for its dimsiness. Von Blomberg second class, yet, in a long war,
tlona and moral fortitude. We cipher rather than in code.
The British ciphers and codes are intervals in apparently had incenseri some of it is they-the people who keep the younger ofleers because he the factories, mines, and food-
them
not
+ * *
successes against the in a few months' time.
time,
The Foreign Office uses code, in-
The Secret Service also
anges most conveniently.
The Navy prefers code because it is very hard to "break" (Even if one word is decoded the other words may remain hidden),
IN view of the Army's shall reach our own peak only changed at irregular
L order to keep foreign secret services would not conform to the army's crops going-whose endurance Pales, public morale in Germany The advantage of this situa- guessing. matrimonial code. Hitler therefore will matter more than any other is probably better than it was tion Hes with Britain. Among discarded overnight his most power-element of national defence. when the war began, six weeks us, limitations of supplies and stead of cipher for shorter routine ful ally of 1932, and by so doing! Not being members of tho ago, The Polish victory has vexations of control have yet to messages. aroused the ire and dislike of the party--for few of
had convinced the German people begin, while over there they prefers code, which shortens mes came to that all is going according to have been operating for some majority of Von Blomberg's con- joined before Hitler temporaries with whom he was a power, and now only the young Hitler's infallible plan. firm favourite. It was Von Blom-are eligible they have
immediate At this stage no berg who made it possible for worn the oaths or experienced
there- the strict schooling of Nazi dis- result can be expected, Hiller to dispose of General von cipline. Of course, they greet fore, from the dropping of pro- Schleicher and his wife during the each other with Heil Hitler, and Paganda pamphlets over Ger. is brutal 1984 purge, and for the first are always ready to hang out many.
Appeals to the pacific six years of itler's reign dld flags to order, since that is elc- avorything he could to bring the Reichswehr in closer relation to the Nazi Party. The result was loss of among his personal popularity colleagues, and as a final humilia- tion, disownment by Hitler.
The methods are typical of the German dictator. He did the same with Roehm, his best friend, and it seems he has knifed in the back Von Fritsch, another gallant officer, whose loyalty to the German State has never been questioned.
Thesa barbaric methods of eliminating internal
mentary prudence in Germany.
* *
the THEY belong to
type of whom their Blockwurte, or local party su- pervisor, reports to his chiefs politisch gut-gesinnt, or politi- that they are respectable and
cally well-disposed.
the
Such people have only German wireless and the stereo- typed Press to tell them what is going on, and there can be no doubt that to their simple minda embarrass Germany's war-plans seem to ments have go far succeeded, but have been crowned with success. Hitler seems to be in danger of
They think they are seeing confusing the effect of his Party fulfilment of the Fubrer's pro- purge of 1934 with a military purge mise-a cheap and short war of of 1930. He will awaken to his conquest in the East, with the error when he finds that the German "West Wall.'
as they Rolchawehr,
although perhaps now call the Siegfried Line, së... capable of petty jealousies, is just curely holding their adversaries as jealous for its own good name, at bay in the West.
"Mensch, ich sage Dirt" I and the good name of its high of- Acers. Hitler inay imagine that he can almost hear them saying, can take supreme command of the with portentous earnestness and German army, but he will nover bulging oyes, "I tell you, the be allowed to do 60 by his!
to make or break the dictator.
Rolchawehr, who are still powerful wehr is more likely to depose Hitler before permitting the world The Reichswehr are fully aware to believe that there is a vital wenk- that army purges in the middle of ness in the Gorman Military Ala- a war are a real sign of weakness; chine, and Hitler will be seeking a In this case it is not the weakness much earlier doom than awaits him of the army or its leaders, but of at the hands of the Allies if he per mits his petty whims to take pre- Iftior, the dictator. The Reichs cedence in such vital decisions.
** * EVERY athlete knows that to be overtrained one of the worst of disadvan-
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GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
COAST DEFENSES
The Army prefers cipher-the danger of code-books falling into
come
enemy hands is too great.
Since the 1014-16 war, cipher- out. writing machines have You type on them or if you were using a typewriter, but certain ad- justable cogs and cams, turn your message into cipher-so effectively that the tell-tale letters "th" (whose constant reappearance is the give- away to many of the simpler, cip- hers) will not have the same equivalents more than once in 500 tlines.
But these machines will never be camp followers of the Army.
Besides being heavy to move around they need plenty of electri- city-not easily lafd on to the front line.
Making new elphers needs ingen- uity, but making new codes may in- volve three to four years hard work. So anys Mr. Ernest Quick, seventy- two-year-old director of are of the. most successful commercial shipping codes.
Quick, born in Fetler-lane, was a gold prospectar ni nineteen. He then went round the world kelling naps and code, books to shipping componica.
The code in which he is interested has $30,000 different phrases, includ- Ing 0,500 on oll, 130,780 on names of ports with combinations, 1,525 phrases on Danzig, and rauthematical. percentage tables.
The code book costs £8 a copyi Phrases for It were taken from or- dinary business correspondence. It took four years to sort them out and code them.
Mr. Quick also sells code books- which you can fill in with your own phrases (£2), or you can have a private cipher. Many business, men have one which they change every. week or so.
400
in.
"---and here's how junior mopped up on me when I tried out our best attack manoeuvre on him fast night."
But in wartime, the censor·álepe·
••Put each letter back: one':in-the? niphabet.
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