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distinct orders how to act.

As the Enemy if he came out at all was presumed to be superior to the  patrol in numbers, speed and gun fire to engage him in right would be merely asking for trouble & at the same time defeating the raison d'etre of affording protection to the drifters, to the southward of us. Our orders were then on sighting the Enemy surface craft to turn south away from them at full speed simultaneously informing C-in-C. Brindisi as to their disposition & the composition (class of  

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