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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA
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now feel sure that I merely wished to see him, and by seeing him to confirm my impressions. Was it all imagination? Was it all a nightmare? Had I become jumpy?

Running along the fore-bridge I almost fell, slipping in a pool of blood (the chief signalman — Kandaooroff — had just been. killed there). I went into the conning tower, and found the Admiral and Captain both bending down, looking out through the chink between the armour and the roof.

“Sir,” said the Captain, energetically gesticulating as was his wont, “we must

    and their internal capacity and bursting charge increased to the utmost limits. The percussion fuses should be sensitive enough to detonate at the slightest touch.

    The first of the above views prevails chiefly in France, the second in England. In the late war we held the first, and the Japanese the second.

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