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manner habitually used at sea, and it was
not until she had neglected three such summonses,
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 apon the submarine, that
two shells were fired into her stern.
she still proceeded at full steam three shells
were finally fired at her engine room, one of which
caused her to stop by cutting the steam-pipe.
Hot a shot was fired from the submarine after
the "Irene" had stopped, and the entire efforts
of the Pritish worships 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 fled in his plain duty if he had not used
that amount of foroe with the object of recovering
the
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