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THE SUNDAY. OREGOXIAX, rOETLAXD, OCTOBER 2G, 1919. 7 w TRICKS E FOOLED GERMANS Mysterious "X Army" of Americans Hold Verdun. WIRELESS PLAYS ITS PART Code Messages Sent for Enemy's Benefit After "Key to Code" Had Been Carefully Planted. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN GERMANY, Oct. 1. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Tricks of the game of war are coming- to light frora time to Mm as each side tells its 6tory. One of the most successful of them was practiced by American forces in-' the Meuse-Argonne battle "last fall, when the last great allied offensive was at its height from Switzerland to the sea. An Imaginary army conceived by a handful of American Junior off! cers was "thrown into the field over night and for days five crack German divisions just east of Verdun, In the Etain region, were kept cn their toes momentarily expecting an attack which never materialized. At a dinner table in a Coblenz cafe, overlooking the Rhine, an American intelligence officer recently told the story of the creation of the "mythical X army," as it was called. It appears that the Germans were expecting an attack in the Etain sector at any time, and the Americans knew it; but at that phase of the game the first United States army was devoting its energies to driving the enemy out of the Ar gronne forest and the hill country on either side. Bo the mythical army was created, in preference to a real diversion, requiring many men, to convince the German commander that it would not be wise to weaken tha Etain front to the benefit of the Meuse-Argonne front, where a des perate battle was proceeding. Story of the X Army" Told. Five fresh divisions had been placed by the Germans on the Etain line. These constituted their last and finest reservoir of available divisions. The Americans realized that the minute the Germans decided that this was not a danger point, any or all of the five divisions could be withdrawn, re placed by exhausted and fragmentary divisions coming from the battle fronts, and that the appearance of the fresh troops in line west of the Meuse would have a tremendous ef fect on the American offensive. The "X army" was assigned to a front from Bezonvaux to Fresnes. From the morning of October 22 un til just previous to the armistice this army "functioned." Captain Charles H. Matz, of Hubbard Woods, 111., was commander-in-chief. Captain "William H. Dearden of Springfield, Mass.. and Washington, D. C, was chief-of-staf f. Lieutenant John H. Graham of Lex ington, Va., was chief f "troop move ments"; Captain O. W. Neidert was in charge of G-l, or administration; and Lieutenant H. T. Griswold of Old Lyme, Conn., was 'hief of artillery. The staff of the "X army" were all members of the intelligence section of the first army and of course, before beginning operations, had secured the consent of their chief. Colonel Willey HowelL Code Key Furnished. The wireless and the telephone were freely used to convince the Germans that the Americans were preparing for an attack in the Etain sector. To make sure that the Germans would be able to "break into" the code used the Americans furnished them with a satisfactory key. One wireless station, of the X army, was established in a clump of woods rear Verdun and was christened "headquarters of the X army." This station functioned until the end of the game, all "orders" to the army going out from this place by wireless. Soon after the station began work ing the Germans located its where abouts and frequently shelled the woods and vicinity, apparently in hopes of breaking up the radio of this latest or annoyances. I he "X army" also had a portable radio station, which moved about and represented itself as a different sta tion every day or two. ine sector in which the X army was at worn was directly under com mand of the 33d French corps, and me roving wireless station caused considerable excitement among the French soldiers as it sent' messages to make the enemy believe that sev eral fresh American divisions had moved into the area. The French, unaware oi tne plans or the X army etarr, at times thought the Ameri cans had lost all sense of reason and on several occasions so reported the wireless plants. Bogus Radio Stations Reported. The first message from the X army headquarters was a general dis- patcn to all wireless stations in the army area (none of which actually exisieo; in tne new code, of course, directing that one of the stations an swer or make use of any of their sending instruments, for fear of the 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 ir.tercepting stations should be on the alert for the Ameri can messages. This was followed by a series of messages designed to indicate that the X army was preparing for a full riedged operation. In order to In form the enemy of the geographical limits of the sector of the X army, many messages were directed to Imaginary officers at existing towns on tne ttain iront. Fed to the Enemy. Meanwhile the roving wireless .sta tion was working overtime day and nignt. it Degan sending out mes sages in the Fresnes sector and try ing to give the impression that it was several stations at widely sepa rated locations. One message in par ticular was peculiarly designed to add to the enemy's suspicion of the approaching trouble an imperative demand for 200 copies more additional of the Conflans sheet, "Plan Direc teur map." This could only be in terpreted by the Germans, the Ameri cans agreed, as preparation for a coming drive on the Briey iron center. 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 might not hear the conversations the Ameri cans desired them to record. They de liberately grounded their wires, so the enemy could "listen in," and crawled out into no man's 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 within certain limits can pick up conversa tions over enemy lines with which It is not even connected. So the Ameri cans felt certain that all their con versations were heard by the Ger mans. - Results Soon Noticeable. 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 airplanes to make reconnaissances.. The Ger mans also began a series of trench raids, to obtain prisoners for the purpose of identifying units of the forces opposite them. German pris oners captured by the French told of wild alarms in the night on the part of the German forces, hurried rein forcement of the main line of resist ance and various other movements which indicated that the enemy was exerting extreme watchfulness on ac count of the activity of the little army being operated by a handful of Americans. When the armistice became effec tive, November H, the little American mythical X army, still held its ground in the field near Verdun, and opposite five crack German divisions stood their guard not even suspecting that they had been tricked by a hand ful of Ingenious young Yankees who were delighted at the results ob tained by their mischievous schemes which had worked so successfully in deceiving the wise old German veter ans of a five-year war. OREGON PUPILS IN EAST STUDENTS CONTINUE WORK TAKEN CP BEFORE WAR. LUXEMBERO FOLK FOND OF DUCHESS People Vote 4 to 1 to Retain Their Present Ruler. SUFFRAGE GIVEN WOMEN Cbarlotte Is 24 Tears Old, Slender and Girlish, Whose Simplicity of Manner Is Remarkable. Several Married Couples Included Among Those Attending Massa chusetts Institutions. BY LAMAR TOOZE. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. (Special.) The Cambridge and large this year, students from 25. Oregon colony In Boston is unusually The majority of the Oregon enrolled in Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technology are graduates of the University of Oregon. Many of them had begun courses at Harvard or Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy prior to the war, but In com mon with university students the country over, dropped their books at the outbreak of the war and went into the country's service. The colony includes several mar ried couples Mr. and Mrs. Walter Church of Eugene, Mr. and Mrs. Kane (Katharine Toomey) of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Lajnar Tooze of Salem. Living in Cambridge are Mr. and Mrs. Melville Sastham, formerly of Port- and, who have just returned from a two months' visit with relatives in Portland. . Enrolled in the medical school in Boston are: William Murphy and Will- am Livingstone of Portland, Frank Scaiefe and Paul Spangler of Eugene, and Wayne Stater of McMinnville. Studying osteopathy in Boston is Or ville Monteith of Albany. The following are in the school of business administration: Anthony Jaureguy and Hugh B. McGuire of Portland and Joel Richardson of La Grande. Nellis Hamlin of Roseburg and Cleveland Simpkins of Salem are in the college, Mr. Simpkins being an nstructor in biology. Mr. Simpkins was sent by Harvard to the West In dies during the summer months on research work for the biology department. Nicholas Jaureguy of Portland and Lamar Tooze of Salem are the only Oregonians in the law school. Walter Church of Eugene and Kenneth Moores of Portland are following a course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Kane is in the Har vard graduate school working for a doctor's degrfie. Plans are under way to perfect an organization of Oregon students here OREGON PIONEER BURIED Mrs. Susan Henderson Pyburn Is Laid to Rest at Wasco. WASCO, Or., Oct. 25. (Special.) Mrs. Susan Henderson Pyburn, an Or egon pioneer, who died this week, was burled here today. She was born in Missouri in 1843 and with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyge. Mul key, crossed the plains with an ox team in 1853. settling near Eugene. At the age of 13 she was married to John Hender son and moved to Jackson county. Later they went to Benton county. near corvallis. She was married to Jacob Pyburn, a civil war veteran, in 1873. Since 1887 she had lived in Sheridan county most of the time. near Rufus. Eight children surviving are J. H. Henderson and Lyge Henderson, Blodgett, Or.; Oren Henderson, Mrs. Al Hines and J. A. Pyburn, Rufus, Or. Mrs. W. E. Miller, Portland; Mrs. Charles Warren, Yakima, Wash., and Mrs. H. H. 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The matter of submitting to the people a choice of retaining the grand duchy, under her or someone else. or of establishing a republic, she ad mitted with a smile, caused her a little anxiety, though . she signed the law for a plebiscite also. "I. felt the people would vote for me," she added. Grand Duchess Popular. The vote was about 4 to 1 to re tain the grand duchy and the Grand Duchess Charlotte as ruler. The grand duchess received the correspondent in the morning, an hour after the government began counting the ballots that decided in her favor, but before the first re sults of the referendum reached her. The ruler of Luxemburg Is of the house of Nassau, one of the richest reigning families in Europe, but the simplicity of her manner has been remarked by many of those who know her. The former Princess Charlotte took over the government upon the abdication of her sister. the former Grand Duchess Marie- Adelaide, of whom the peace con ference at Paris disapproved. Ruler Only 24 Years Old. The present grand duchess is 24 years old. She is of medium height, slender and girlish with a most com plimentary eagerness to listen. Her rather small face is broad across the forehead and tapers very slightly to fine small chin. The triangular effect is emphasized by the fashion of dressing her chestnut hair rather fiat on her head, and puffed out at the sides. Her face seems to light up and her eyes to become perceptibly more brilliant, in a flash, as some thing Interests her. The chateau of the grand duchess is at Colmar, nearly 20 miles from the city, but much of her time is spent n the palace at Luxemburg, where the correspondent was received. She chose to speak English during the audiences and, contrary to custom, en couraged questions. "Politics" was taboo by direction of the minister of state. Politics Are Not Pleasing. Concerning the decision of her subjects between a grand duchy and republic, she said: "I hope the vote will be favorable. 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