New York, May 6.
The Government yesterday evening started its attempt to sweep the "Rum Armada" from the seas before June 1 by throwing its "Blue Fleet" of rum-chasers, equipped 'a variety of ordnance ranging: from machine guns to six-inch guns manned by picked crows, 50 miles up and down the coast with strict Jorders to overtake and arrest lay bronkers, even if it should be neleessary to sink fleeing craft.
The commanders of the fleet. will im wireless touch with the tom House at New York, where Commander Jacobs will receive their reports and issue code.—Reuter's Ame
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