manner habitually used at sea, and it was
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not until she had aegisoted three such sumZOLBOS
one by lamp signal, one by a blank round and
one by a practice projectile fired across her
bows, and while she was still proceeding
ahead at full steam and the pirates on board
her had opened fire upon the submarine, that
two shells we:e fired into her stern. AS
she still proceeded at full steam three shells
were finally fired at her engine room, one of
which caused her to stop by outting the steam-pip
Not a shot was fired from the submarine after
the "Ir" had stopped, and the entire efforts
of the British warships concerned were thereafter
devoted to the work of rescue, It is thus
apparent that the amount of force used was the
minimum necessary to compel the "Irene" to stop,
and that the Commander of the submarine would
have failed in his plain duty if he had not used
that amount of force with the object of recovering
the