It will perhaps not be necessary to go into the usual series of narratives of interesting cases in the instance of the Crescent City. The report, as outlined above, is so different in its general phases from that of the average division that it may be allowed to stand, with the addition of its tabulated totals, which cover all the forms of assistance to the Government in which A. P. L. has participated throughout the United States.
Alien enemy activities 292
Citizen disloyalty and sedition 1,626
Sabotage, bombs, dynamite, defective manufacture 24
Anti-military activity, interference with draft 34
Propaganda—word of mouth and printed 1,326
Radical organizations—I. W. W., etc. 43
Bribery, graft, theft and embezzlement 82
Naturalization, impersonation, etc. 827
Counter-espionage for military intelligence 2
Selective Service Regulations under boards 2,194
In slacker raids, estimated 20,000
Of local and district board members 4
Work or fight order 254
Character and loyalty—civilian applicants 103
Applicants for commissions 57
Training camp activities—Section 12 2,919
Training camp activities—Section 13 2,843
Camp desertions 140
Collection of foreign maps, etc. 3,500
Counter-espionage for Naval Intelligence 206
Collection of binoculars, etc. 8
Food Administration—hoarding, destruction, etc. 453
Fuel Administration—hoarding, destruction, etc. 964
Department of State—Miscellaneous 7
Treasury Department—War Risk Insurance, etc. 625
United States Shipping Board 15
Alien Property Custodian—Miscellaneous 7
Red Cross loyalty investigations 400
The decision to demobilize the American Protective League was arrived at somewhat suddenly, for reasons more or less obvious to all members of the League. As recently as November 13, 1918, Mr. Bielaski, Chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the U. S. Department of Justice, wrote to Chief Weinberger, expressing the assurance
