The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-29
FIVE HUN DIVISIONS OUTWITTED BY AMERICAN "SPECTRE ARMY" Crack German Outfits Held For Many Weeks In nne Position Where Great Yankee Attac1- Was
 Expected to Develop.

wireless stations must have been set up and to advise them of the hours when the enemy intercepung stations should be on the alert for the American messages.
 This was followed by a series of messages designed to indicate that the X army was preparing for a full fIedged operation. In order to in form the enemy of the geographical iimis of the sector of the X army, many mesa ges were directed to imaginary officers at existing towns 5n the Etain front
 Meanwhile the rowing wireless sta ion was working overtime day and night. It began sending out messages in the Fresnes sector and trying to give the impression that it was sev- eral station at widely separated loca-
 ions. One message in particular was peculiarly designed to add to the en- emy suspicion of the approaching trouble-an imperative demand for 200 copies more additional 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 Eriey iron center.
 In addition to the wireless the X army also had in operation, on u te front between BezonvauX and Fresnes, a telephone squad-a careless squad, which set up telephone stations here and there and sent messages 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 tha; the Germans might n p+ hn1 -I,,o jeans desired them to record. They deliberately grounded their wires so the enemy could listen in," and craw1ed 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 con- versations over enemy lines with which 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 began functioning. the results began to be noticeable, the nervousness on the part of the Germans being exhibited in many ways, the enemy first send ing over a large number of air planes to make reconnaissances. The Germans also began a series of trench raids, to obtain prisoners for the purpose of Identifying units of the forces opposite them. German prisoners captured by the French , told of wild alarms in the night on ! the part of the German forces, hur- ried reinforcement of the main line of resistance and various other movements which indicated that the enemy was eXerting extreme watch fitness on account of the activity of the little army being operated by a . handful of Americans.
 When the arrnistice became effec- tive, Nov. II, the little American mythical x army still held its ground in the field near Verdun, and op- pcsite five crack German divisions stood their guard. not even suspect ing that they had been tricled by a handful of ingenious young Yankees who were delighted at the results ob- tained by their mischevious schemes ; which had worked so successfully in deceiving the wise old German vet , erans of five year war.