The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-10

New York, March 1O-Francis P. Garvan, recently appointed Custodian of Enemy Alien Property to succeed A. Mitchell Palmer, designated by President Wilson for United States Attorney General, made public yester- day the latter's report on the work of the office since America entered the war.
 The Bosch Magnetic, Passaic Wors- ted Mills, Bridgeport Protective Com pany, the Sayville and Tuckerton wireless plants and scores of other big seizures are recounted.
 Supplied Us With Accessories.
 "It was felt that the Likelihood of unfair and even barbarous reprisal upon American citizens and American property which would have been in fIicted by Turkey, if we had inter fered with the Turkish property in this country, was sufficient reason for not disturbing the small amount of such property here.
 At the close of business on Febru- ary Is, 1919, s, 400 reports of enemy property had been received. The pro perty of each enemy person is treated in the office as a trust and adm1n1s- tered by an organization winch is built upon the general lines of a trust company. The number of separate trusts now being admlnlstered amounts to 32,296, and have an az gregate value of s5o2, ,945,724.75- This is expected to reach $7o0, 900.
 The total amount of government funds expended by the office of the Alien Property Custodian from the time of its organization to Feb. 15, 1919, is about $1,000,000 Thus. II will be seen that the cost to the gov ernment of administering nearly 330OO trust estates of a toto2 value ot $7O0,0O0, 0,0O0, located in every state in the Union and in every insular pos session, is only about one-seVenth or 1 per cent. of the principal of the trust estates for a period of 1e months.
 "The enemy investments in Ameri- ca divide themselves into two classes. In the first class are the private 1n- vestments of individual German sub- jects, who, attracted by the possiblH- ties in America, invested their funds in a. small way in this country In real estate, in mortgages, and in securities, chiefly of industrial and transporta- ton companies. In the second class are the investments which have been made by combined capital in Ger ''AN-- the great political and financial DOW
 CTS of the empire.
 "Generally, the first class was friendly. Investments in the second class were in a sense, hostile. They were the far-fung lines of advance for her Kultur and so great had they become with the opening of the world war that it has now become perfectly plain that Germany lived in high hopes of the assistance which would come to her from the organization which she had built up on this side of the Atlantic These investments were largely in industries, which, while ac- ceDting the hospitality of American laws to become American corpora tiors, were never in fact American ized.
 Of te wireless seizures, the repor, says
 "It must have been apparent to the Germans that communication with America would be cut upon England s entry into the war, unless some means independent of cable or ship was es- tablished.
 s'The war plotters found in q transatlantic wireless station the sole means of overcoming the British con trol of the seas and of maintaining i their touch with America, and from 1910 to 1914, there were begun and | completed two high-powered wireless 1 plants, one at Sayville, l.. l., and the l other at Tuckerton, N. J.
 Revealed Ship Movements. 1 Investigation of the wireless field | disclosed that the Telefunken system 1 had been installed on German ship | ping and on our own coastwise fleets
 and had been operating with grear
 success in conjunction with the Say 1 vile plant. German stations hac | been installed in Cuba, Mexico, Cen 1 tral and South America A high. l powered plant had been erected al