and chamster. If he stuck to his bridge and made
counter-threate that help was coming and that the
山梨 fate of the pirutea doponded on their present
conduot, he might possibly cluhten than into n light.
did not
bonosed that in the Ironos queo the pirato強
wen when their capture
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was imminent
levanta ir ho did not pivo
the bri÷ge, the pirates ould be defeated, and I think
that ene ar
from further attempts.
s of this wort would deter th man
*. for the above reasons, I antirolyawrend with
the reaamendation of the majority saport that the rat
essenti l is to make the bridge impregnable,
the minority repert characterized the prepeval to create
a fortified citadel on a ship as impracticable and
apsurd, I took particular pains to assert in from Beners.
butterfield a wints representativos and aperto why it
hould be 90. afor paral stant questioning. ith the
plans of the different vessels before us, I dume te
the conclusion, and they also admitted, that to fortify kno
tratto
the bridges of their ships so that they could be held
for a long time against a piratesult was perfectly
Panal ce, but that the structural alteration would co
8.
in important part of any scheme of fortification
for the bridge would be the ipolusion of the wireless
noon and operator within tho
obvious that resi stance by these on the bridge sauld only
be successful if help could be summoned within a reaso0-
ablo time Hitherto the pirates have always began by put-
ting the wireless out of action, which they could de
there was nothing to prevent them from getting
because