Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-26

was at work was directly under com
 mand of the Thirty-third French
 corps, and the rowing wireless sta
 tlon caused considerable excitement
 among the French soldiers as it sent
 messages to make the enemy believe
 that several fresh American divisions
 had moved into the area. The French
 unaware of the plans of the X army staff, at times thought the Ameri- icans had lost all sense of reason and
 on several occasions so reported the
 wireless plants.
 The first message from the X army Headquarters was a general dispatch to all wireless stations in the army area (none of which actually existed)
 in the new code, of course, directing that none of the stations answer or make any use of their sending in- struments, for fear of the enemy To- eating them, but to be on the alert at fixed hours to receive messages. The effect was to warn the Germans that "a large number of wireless stations must have been set up and to advise them of the hours when the enemy |intercepting stations should be on the alert for the American messages.
 This was followed by a series of messages designed to indicate that the army was preparing for a full fledged operation. In order to in- form the enemy of the geographical limits of the sector of the X army, many messages were directed to inn aginary officers at existing towns on the Etain front.
 Meanwhile the rowing wireless sta tion was working overtime day and night. It began sending out mes sages in the Fresnes sector and try ing to give the impression that it was several stations at widely sep arated locations. One message in particular was peculiarly designed to add to the enemy's suspicion of the approaching trouble-an imperative demand for 200 copies more addi- ticnal of the Conflans sheet, "Plan Directeur map" This could only be interpreted by the Germans, the Americans agreed, as preparation for a coming drive on the Briey iron center.
 Still Held Ground.
 In addition to the wireless the X army also had in operation, on the front between Bezonvaux and Fres- nes, a telephone squad-a careless squad which set up telephone sta tions here and there and sent mes sages and talked shop and gossiped at night about the arrival of some old friend from America with such and such an outfit.
 The X army telephone squad took no chances that the Germans not , hear the conversations the Americans desired them to record. They de- liberately grounded their wires, so the enemy could "listen in," and crawled out into no mans land in the darkness and hooked one of the American wires over onto a German barbed wire in front of an abandoned trench system. In the front line of modern warfare the telephone is a! most dangerous instrument for both sides devised apparatus which with in certain limits can pick up conver- it is not even connected So the Americans felt certain that all their conversations were heard by the Germans.
 Two days after the X army be- gan functioning, the results began to be noticeable, the nervousness on the part of the Germans being ex- hibited in many ways, the enemy first sending over large number of airplanes to make reconnaissances. The Germans also began series of trench raids, to obtain prisoners for the purpose of identifying units of the forces opposite them. German prisorers captured bv the French told of wild alarms in the night on the part of the German forces. hurried l reinforcement of the main line of re- sistance and various other move ments which indicated that the ene-