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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA

shorten the distance. They're all being killed — they are on fire!”

“Wait a bit. Aren't we all being killed also?” replied the Admiral.

Close to the wheel, and on either side of it, lay two bodies in officers' tunics face downwards.

“The officer at the wheel, and Beseneff!”[1] was shouted in my ear by a sub-lieutenant Shishkin — whose arm I had touched, pointing to the bodies. “Berseneff first — in the head — quite dead.”

The range-finder was worked. Vladimirsky shouted his orders in a clear voice, and the electricians quickly turned the handles of the indicator, transmitting the range to the turrets and light gun batteries.

“We're all right,” thought I to

  1. ↑ A colonel of the marine artillery — flag gunnery officer.
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