Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1914 — TRICKED BY STOLEN CODE [ARTICLE]

TRICKED BY STOLEN CODE

Goeben Escaped by Use of Week-Old Cipher Stolen (From . British. New York. —The German cruisers Goeben and Breslau escaped from Messina to the Dardanelles at the start of the war by using a week-old secret code stolen from the British admiralty. This fact, brought out at the recent court martial which exonerated Admiral Troubridge from blame, has been suppressed by the British censor, but reached New York by mail from London. Troubridge had the boats bottled up at Messina, but received a wireless code message, worded and signed in correct admiralty form, ordering him to let the cruisers altffieT* Assuming that other, plans had been worked out for their capture, he did as. directed. Not until he reached London for the court martial did he learn the order » was spurious. Supposedly it was sent by the Goeben herself or by some German wireless station. The code could only have been obtained by a spy or by treason of some Briton high in authority.