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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
In addition to the foregoing, the reports from local divisions
indicate that they have made a large number of investigations of a
general character for the War Department, including a variety of
subjects. Mention should also be made of a considerable amount of
service rendered to the Foreign Recruiting Missions in locating
slackers and deserters and in making miscellaneous investigations
of individuals.
On March 18, 1918, the Military Intelligence Branch of the War
Department requested the American Protective League to procure
for that Department, for immediate use for intelligence purposes,
photographs, drawings and descriptions of bridges, buildings,
towns and localities, then occupied by the German forces in
France, Belgium and Luxemburg, and likewise in that portion of
Germany lying west of a line running north and south through
Hamburg. In compliance with that request, National Headquarters
issued a bulletin to all Local Divisions, calling upon the entire
organization of the League throughout the country to engage in
the work, and prescribing a detailed method for carrying it on.
The result of the work, and the appreciation of the Military
Intelligence Branch, was expressed to the League in a letter from
Lieutenant Colonel Coxe, under date of June 11, 1918, in which
he quotes a letter from Colonel Nolan, chief of the Military
Intelligence Force abroad, to the effect that the material
contained much information of value and that “the citizens of the
United States who donated the above articles and the League which
collected them have done something which definitely helps toward
the success of the operations of our army.”
Summing up the actual investigations made by the American
Protective League in the one hundred local divisions referred to,
the grand total of cases reported by these divisions is 448,950.
As has been shown, the jurisdiction of these divisions embraces
approximately one-seventh of the whole population of the country
covered by all of the local divisions of the League, and while
some of the work reported by the one hundred divisions is not
duplicated elsewhere, yet the reverse is true, and it may fairly
be said that the entire number of cases handled by the League for
the War Department throughout the country is seven times the above
figure, or more than three million.
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