The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective LeagueHough, Emerson
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The Web : $b The Authorized History of the American Protective League
Hough, Emerson
American Protective League; Propaganda, German; World War, 1914-1918 -- Secret service -- United States
Arrangements were made to obtain the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory
in New York and the Twenty-third Regiment Armory in Brooklyn,
and about 1,000 sailors and 750 soldiers from posts in New York
City were obtained for assistance in the raids. Two American
Protective League operatives were detailed to each of the one
hundred and eighty-nine local boards in New York, and two to each
police station. There were seventy-five operatives on duty in the
Armories in New York and about fifty in Brooklyn. There were ten
special agents of D. J. in Brooklyn and twenty in New York. Mr.
DeWoody prepared printed instructions to be used by the sailors,
soldiers and A. P. L. operatives in the work.
The system used on the streets was to interrogate a man, and ask
for his registration card and his final classification card. If
he had none, he was taken to the nearest police station, where he
was questioned further by the operatives in charge, and if thought
to be a delinquent, was then sent by a motor car to the armory
to be held. From that point his local board was communicated
with by telephone or telegraph, and the true status of the man
obtained at the earliest possible moment. In these raids, there
were apprehended 21,402 men, of whom 756 were inducted into the
service. There were found 2,485 men who were delinquents from
their local boards.
Up till December 11, 1918, there were 45,150 filed cases of a general
nature in the New York Division: 3,610 civil service case, 2,920
passport visés, 471 passport cases, 2,507 overseas investigations,
2,539 investigations of officers’ commissions, and 29,680 cases
connected with selective service matters. This makes a total of 86,877
cases.
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