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Rear Admiral C. F. Billard, Commandant of the United "States Coast Guard, will deliver an address in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight...
...that he has changed the title of his address, though the subject matter of the talk will conform to the title announced in October. The old title "Sea-fighting Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young men in what is going...
...reason I am asking you to change the title of my talk is that I try to avoid having the public get the impression that the Coast Guard is concerned with rum-running operations alone...
...Coast Guard Commandant has been in close touch with the actual conditions also the Atlantic seaboard. He is personally in charge of the extensive blockades now being maintained off Boston, New York, and other Atlantic ports. He has witnessed in person gun duals between his men and the blockade runners...
Rear Admiral Billard cited many examples of actual war work done by the Coast Guard branch of the Navy during the World War. It was in the convoying of troop ships, that the Coast Guard was particularly of service in the recent...