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-Strube in the London "Daily Express"

Thongkong Telegraph. Most Germans

Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 October 17, 1939

Asking For Trouble

HITHERTO there has been an

inclination to dismiss reports

of Internal Ussension within the

still

don't

know the truth

W

Wilhelmstrasse and the German army as propaganda, but the well- authenticated press reports from

HAT are the. Ger- neutral sources proclaiming the

man people think- Arrest and detention of former

ing about this Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal war? Not the ⚫ party con Blomberg and five other high officials left to keep watch German army officers, as well as

-by-

G. Ward Price

Germany re-

"UIJT JT JO D JQIFS" |

"this

is in cipher"

(but one of the simplest of all ciphers, dear to schoolbops. Do you ser how it works?*)

MAYBE it is simple.

But if

cable

you tried to send a like this from Hongkong you'd be pulled up quickly,

Cipher is hard to break, un- less you have the koy. But the British Intelligence Department broke the strongest German ciphers during the last war,

It denis with all types of codes and ciphers.

The difference between a code and

the highly mysterious death of upon the civil population, General von Fritsch, leaves little but the ordinary, stay-at- Fahrer das ist ein Mann! He instincts of the rank and file of room for doubt that Hitler is find home citizen, too old to have knows what he is about! Shan- the country will be without suc- ing it increasingly difficult to get been called up yet, who is beriang and Daladier-what can cess so long as along with those who would nor consequently carrying on they do against him? First he mains flushed with victory. The cipher Is this: In n code, a code- mally be regarded as Indispensable his job as shopkeeper or conquers Poland; 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) atands for maybe a whole sen- our likely to become pacific when tence of message, whereas a cipher

is a letter-for-letter affair. It appears that von Blomberg is

What is he saying over his either have to submit to

You usually need a code book or to become another victim of Hitler's 20-per-cent-watered beer while terms or be smashed to pieces." things begin to go wrong for his

dictionary for codes, and the code extraordinary whims. By 1938 he he sits at his Stammtisch?—as And the rest of the evening side,

ter of phruses.

during the present crisis.

had already thrown over the one they call a table reserved for a would be devoted to discussion man who had made the allegiance particular set of customers.

*

بله

It would be too much to ex-book can only. holt a limited num-

Ciphers cxprcan_more expet shades

of meaning, and so you can lake "It" that Hitler's message was sent in We cipher rather than in code.

The British clphers and codes are order to keep foreign secret services

changed at irregular intervals in

of how Germany could best-pect-any-weakening of spirit in Germany now, for she is at the of the Reichswehr to Nazism possl- In Nazi eyes, these older peo- divide up the British Empire.

climax of her material prepara- ble. The pretext Was laughable ple count only as citizens of the

tions and moral fortitude. for its flimsiness. Von Blomberg second cluss, yet, in a long war, apparently had incensed some of it is they-the people who keep IN view of the Army's shall reach our own peak only the younger officers because he the factories, mines, and food-

successes against the in a few months' time.

The advantage of this situn-guessing.

Among would not conform to the army's crops going--whose endurance Poles, publie morale in Germany

The Foreign Omee uses code in- matrimonial code. Hitler therefore will matter more than any other is probably better than it was ton lies with Britain.

element of national defence. when the war began, six weeks us, limitations of supplies and stead of cipher for shorter routine The Secret Service also discarded overnight his most power-

of the ago. Not being members

The Polish victory has vexations of control have yet to messages. ful ally of 1932, and by so doing

over there they prefers code, which shor ena mes-

kages most conveniently. aroused the ire and dislike of the party-for few of them had convincel the German people begin, while

to have been operating for some

The Navy prefera code because joined before Hitler

to that all is going according

time..

It is very hard to "break" (Even majority of Von Blomberg's con-1 temporaries with whom he was a power, and now only the young Hitler', infallible plan.

* * eligible-they have not

At this stage no sworn the oaths or experienced berg who made it possible for the strict schooling of Nazi dis- result can be expected, there- Hitler 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 Hell Hitler, and paganda pamphlets over Ger- is one of the worst of disadvan-

firm favourite. It was Von Blom.

arc

came

immediate

Appeals to the pacific'

*

if one word is decoded the other words may remata hidden).

The

Army prefers cipher-the. EVERY athlete knows

danger of code-books falling into that to be overtrained enemy hands is too great.

Since the 1914-19 war, cipher writing machines have come out. You type on them as if you were using a typewriter, but certain ad- Justable cogs and cams turn your

PLEASE Turn To Page 3.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

brutal 1934 purge, and for the first are always ready to hang out many. six years of Hitler's reign dld flags to order, since that is ele. everything he could to bring thementary prudence in Germany. Reichswehr in closer. relation to the Nazi Party. The result was loss of his among 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 Rochm, his best friend, and it Aeems he has knifed in the back Von Fritsch, another gallant officer. whose loyalty to the German State has never been questioned.

* * * THEY belong to the type of whom their Bockwurte, or local party su- pervisor, reports to his chiefs that they are respectable and politisch gut-gesinnt, or politi- cally well-disposed.

Such people have only the: German wireless and the stereo- typed Press to tell them what is going on, and there can be no These barbaric methods .of doubt that to their simple minds eliminating internal embarrass-Germany's war-plans seem to ments have.HO for 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 Fuhrer's pro- purge of 1934 with a military purge mise-a cheap and short war of of 1939. He will awaken to hla conquest in the East, with the when he finds that the German "West Wall," na they Relchawehr, although. perhaps now call the Siegfried. Line,' sc- capable of potty jealousies, la just curely holding their advorsaries A jealous for its own good name, at bay in the West.

"Mensch, ich sage Dir!""I and the good nams of its high of- Acers. Hitler may imagine that he can almost hear them saying, can take supreme command of the With portentous earnestness and German army, but he will never bulging eyes, I tell you, the bo allowed to do so by his

orror

Reichswehr, who are still powerful wehr is more likely to depose Hitler before permitting the world to make or break the dietafor.

The Reichswehr are fully aware to believe that there is a vital wonk that army purges in the middle of ness In the German Military Ma a war aru a real sign of weakness; chine, and Hitler will be secking a In this case it is not the weakness much earlier doom than awaits him at the hands of the Allies if he por of the army or its leaders, but of mita his petly whims to take pre- Hitler, the dictator. The Reichs cedence in such vital decisions,

DEFENSES

By Lichty message into cipher so effectively

and here's how Junfor mopped up on me when I tried

out our bost attack manoeuvre on him last night."

that the tell-tale letters "th" (whose constant reappearance is the give- away to many of the simpler clp-

have the "same" hers) will not equivalents more than once, in 500 times.

10

But these machines will never be camp followers of the Army.

move Besides being heavy around they need plenty of electri- city-not easy laid on to the front fline.

Making new ciphers needs ingen- ulty, but making new codes may in- Volvo three to four years hard work. So says Mr. Ernest Quick, seventy-- two-year-old director of one of the meat successful commercial shipping. codes.

Quick, born in Fetter-lane, was a gold prospector at nineteen. He then went round the world selling maps and code books to shipping companies.

The code in which be is interested. has 530,000 different phrases, includ ing 6,500 en alt, 130,700 an names of ports with

combinations, -1,525 phrases on Danzig, and mathematical percentage tables.

**

It

The code book costs £0 a copy, Phrases for 1 were taken from or dinary business correspondenes. took four years to sort them out and code them.

Mr. Quick also sells code books which you can All in with your own. con. have 'L phroses. (£2), or you private cipher. Many business inen. have, ono which they change every week or 10.

In.

But in war time, the consor steps

Put each letter back' ond in the alphabet,