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THE BATTLE OF TSU-SHIMA

that no torpedo-boats had come up to the Suvoroff! Whether they could all see that no signal was possible from the battered, burning battleship, minus funnels and masts! Whether it ought in consequence to have been taken for granted that the command naturally devolved on the next ship according to seniority! and whether she should in some way or another have shown that she had taken over command! In any case the Alexander (more correctly, her captain, Bukvostoff) carried out the orders and did her duty. After the flagship had fallen out of the line, receiving no fresh instructions, she took the lead and continued the fight.

From the time when I saw the Alexander passing close to us on a

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