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royers expended themselves uselessly, not having delayed for a moment the destruction of the transports they were escorting. Very foolish of them indeed.
If the Italian admiral over there - I wonder who he is? Nocentini, perhaps, or is it Pogetti? - knows his business he will turn two points to port and close with us and finish us off. And if we knew our business we would run like hares and save ourselves, and let the convoy go, and let Malta go.
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