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As the tail lights of the 4th and 5th Divisions of the flotilla vanished in the darkness on our port quarter, the Asashio's signal lantern began winking again, and Ito read off and translated the message to me: "Reduce speed to twelve knots. Be ready to show signal lanterns if required.
"Because, don't you see, my honourable duffer, that if we did so the explosion would put all Port Arthur, and the fleet too, on the qui vive long before we could get at them, and thus spoil our chances of bagging the battleships?" I replied. "No, certainly not. Let the cruiser go; it is the battleships we want. There go the Asashio's lanterns. Hoist away, quartermaster!"
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