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SEPTEMBER 157
Japanese did no sapping against this position.
The rear slopes of Takasaki-yama formed a better
base for an attack than any siege parallel, and
the above-mentioned ravines formed natural
approaches which no pioneers could have made
better.
Here, as everywhere, the artillery opened the
attack. The hill was exposed to furious shelling
for fourteen hours, and then, from five o’clock in
the afternoon, to a very heavy shrapnel fire.
Under cover of this the ist regiment, detailed
for the attack, made its first advance. From their
position on Takasaki Hill a small force, sending
ground scouts ahead, dashed down the slopes and
gained the nearest ravine without any losses.
Other small forces followed, and in about an hour
quite a considerable force, probably a battalion,
was assembled in the ravine, which they occupied
from the foot of the hill right up to some dead
ground close under the lower trenches. Another
battalion of the regiment was in the same way
sent across to the next ravine. Here the open
ground which they had to cover was somewhat
further, and swept by Russian rifle fire, so the
advance had to be made still more cautiously. To
send across even small forces at a time was too
great a risk, so the men went singly and doubled
across the open space at top speed. It was
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