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 War Risk Insurance cases                                  230 U. S. Bureau of Naturalization cases                    3,905 Draft investigations                                   30,440 Food Administration cases. Food investigations                                  12,637 Sugar investigations                                 179 Fuel Administration cases. Coal investigations                                   3,263 Lightless Night investigations                        1,500 Total investigations                          99,175

Number of men temporarily detained for examination of Registration and Classification Cards during the Slacker Drive of July, 1918                         200,000 Delinquents apprehended and forced to appear at local Draft Boards                                    44,167 Deserters apprehended and sent to Military Camps        1,900 Record compiled for the U. S. Marshal for Alien Enemies; number of entries                                    18,000 Escaped criminals apprehended and turned over to Police Department                                         38 Blue Slip Summons issued                                  726 Automobile license numbers registered on first Gasless Sunday                                              129,204 Photographs, maps, postal cards of views of Germany sent to War Department                                9,525

But it is from the notebooks of the operatives, recording varied activities all in the day's work, that we get the real reflex of the A. P. L. We cannot forego giving a few extracts from the stories of Chicago captains.

Let us take at random the summary from S, captain of District No. 11, where there were fifty-six members—forty active operatives, under a captain, two lieutenants and a legal advisor. This district covers a large portion of the most German section of Chicago, part of which is loyal and part very much otherwise. In six months, during the last year of the war, there were 512 cases assigned to the district by headquarters, and the district turned