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
Two days later another A. P. L. operative heard that this man had
left for Washington, stating that he must get some passports, although
he was known to have passports already. As a third man from the San
Francisco A. P. L. office was going on to Washington, these facts were
given him and he was asked to give the man the once-over in Washington.
He did this and found that the boat-owner was getting passports to
England. He found also that this person was associated with Professor
M——, who claimed to be looking up oil conditions in this country and
studying anthropology on the side.
As this operative also was interested in anthropology, he and Professor
M—— got on very well, although the San Franciscan was not very much
impressed by the learned man’s fundamental knowledge in a scientific
way. There was nothing, however, to show that the professor was
engaged in any enemy activities. But the San Franciscan operative
gathered the notion that the visiting passport-seeker might possibly
be engaged in spreading German propaganda among the many negroes
about the city of Washington. He finally discovered in his possession
a lot of pictures of a very undesirable sort, intended for German
distribution among negro troops in France, with the intention of
creating dissatisfaction among such troops. These pictures carried the
legend, “See what is happening to your wives and families while you
are in France.” Copies of these pictures were obtained. The operative
made the further discovery that Professor M—— was in the employ of this
pseudo-mining-engineer, who now stood revealed as an active German
propagandist. It was also learned where this latter Kultur-spreader got
his pictures.
Arrangements were made with one of the professor’s photographic
subjects so that the operatives might listen in on certain flashlight
performances by night. To cut all that unprintable sort of thing short,
it may be said that the operatives, while seated on the porch, heard
and saw all they liked of the German color-blindness.
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