Weekly journal-miner., 1918-12-11
Gregory Writes Of Q. s. Efforts
 ToHaltSabotage
Attorney Generals Report Discloses Varied Methods Taken to squelch
 Wartime Activities of Enemy
By AS"nc'ated Press.

By RS'-pc :iled IreSS.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. Q - The stcry of hCw enemy agents have been caught, disloyalty suppressed, draft slackers apprehended, dangerous Germans informed, explosions and other sabotage prevented, was given to the public today in attorney Gen eral Gregory's annual report.
 Referring to enforcement of the espionage act Mir. Gregory said:
 This department has proceeded upon the general principle that the constitutional right of free speech, free assembly and petition exist in war time is in peace time and that the right Of discussion Of govern mental policy and the right of politi cal agitation are the most fundamen- tai rights of democracy"
 The attorney general disclosed that only 6000 enemy aliens have been arrested on presidential warrants and examined with a view to internment and that considerable number" of these have been placed in internment camps administered by the army. The balance were paroled. Most enc mics interned were German and there were comparatively few German wo- men or Austro- -Hungarians. About 4S0000 Germans have beens reg -ster- ed in the nationwide census-260, 900 men and 220,000 women.
 Up to last July l, department ct . justice investigators had rounded up 23.42o draft evaders, causing rheii induction into the service. More than 220000 cases of men who had failed to file questionnaires or appear for physical examination were investi- gated.
 War activities claimed the principal portion of the report, and after re- ferring to the growth of the depart ment's secret service to six times its size in 1916, and the efficient or ganization of the American protec- tive league of 250,OO0 citizen volun- teers, Mir. Gregory said:
 Tt is safe to say that never in its history has this country been so thoroughly policed as at present
 "When 1t becomes possible, through the lapse of lime, to disclose fully the activities of these variousI secret services their work will stand out as one of the substantial achieve ments of the war
 Hints of an American espionage system were given in the statement that the secret services have been protection not only to the civilian population but to the armed forces, and some of their activities have also resulted in direct damage to the en- emy forces abroad
 Great stress was laid on the sui ficiency of normal civil processes "and the needlcssness of attempting to invoke the use of military tribunals in this country
 The department has been hamper ed in suppressing propaganda said the attorney general, by "self ap-l pointed committees or associations of citizens who, ignorant or dissatis- fled with the scope of the federal laws or jurisdiction, have sought to supplement them by extra-legal measures of intimidation and punish ment"
 Another hampering influence was the dissemination of hundreds of un- founded reports relating to the use of poison gas by enemy agents, ground glass in food and damage to Red Cross supplies
 Referring to difficulties with mem bers of the I. w. W., ''pseudo-social- ists" and the similar bodies, the at torney general said:
 Tt has been the policy of this de- pertinent that no person should be prosecuted or interned solely by reason Of his membership in any such organization, that guilt is always per sonal and that under no circumstan-I ccs should any organization or body of men be prosecuted as such."
 Mir. Gregcry's recommendations proposed legislation to make fed eral warrant run to every part of the United States so that indicted individuals can not escape trial so easily; retirement of federal judges at the age of 70 if they have served ter years or more; legislation Ito fnake il an cffense to send through the mail letters threatening life or property; Tightening up the bank ruptcy laws; and legislation making it possible to sue a firm in any dis trict in which it traHsacts business.