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night of October 21st was dictated by "a, fear lest

pro- jectiles from the hindmost ships of the ironclad division should hit our own vessels." • Further, it goes on to state that the cruiser • Aurora' had actually been struck five times, three times by 75-millimetre and twice by 47-milli- metre shells, the chaplain and a petty officer being wounded, the former mortally. It is hardly too much to say that the publication of this document five weeks ago might have rendered the appointment of a Court of Inter- national Inquiry unnecessary. Even as it is, it must greatly simplify the investigations of that body; and for the rest, may be taken as intended to prepare public opinion for consider- able modifications in the statement of the case for Russia.

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