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OCTOBER 183
of Erhlung were taken. In the night the Russians
made a counter-attack, which was repulsed
Japanese casualties about fifty. On the nth
three companies of a battalion of the ist Division
attacked and captured a small entrenchment at
the railway culvert in front of Erhlung. Rein-
forced by a detachment of the 9th Division, they
pushed on a little further to the west, where
another entrenchment had been constructed to
defend the larger railway bridge here. This
attack was repulsed with a loss of about sixty
men. Before dawn the next morning (October
1 2th) the Japanese succeeded in bringing up,
unseen by the Russians, a considerable force of
the 19th regiment to some dead ground in front
of the work. They lay hidden here for nearly
the whole of the next day, and when, at about
4.30 p.m., they made a rush for the trenches, the
defenders, who had no idea that any considerable
force was drawn up so close to their position,
were completely surprised, and fled in disorder at
the sudden onslaught, leaving their overcoats on
the ground and their rifles piled ;
Japanese casual-
ties thirty-eight. A counter-attack in the night was
repulsed after some heavy close-range fighting.
On the 1 6th the fortified Hachimaki hill was
captured. The attack was made in the orthodox
way ;
first, several hours of tremendous shelling,
in which the big howitzers took a prominent part
then an hour’s very heavy shrapnel fire ;
next a
rush up from the last parallel and from the donga
to the west of the hill, followed by a short, sharp
hand-to-hand encounter, during which the Rus-
sians were driven slowly back through traversed
trenches towards the Chinese wall. The Russians
now began a galling fire from rifles and machine-
guns which stopped any further advance on the
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