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Japanese main fleet will be out of the way. I think we have reached the culminating point of our adventures. To-morrow the decision must be made: either vertically” — and, putting his hand above his head, he energetically waved it downwards in front of him — “or” — quietly moving his arm out to the right, and dropping it slowly downwards in a circular direction — “a longer route, but to the west all the same.”

“How? Why? Why to the west?” broke in the bystanders. “Because though the end may not come at once,” shouted Zotoff, “the result will be the same! It's absurd to think of steaming victoriously into Vladivostok, or of getting command of the sea! The only possible chance is a dash through! and having dashed