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230 THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR
bayonets and hand grenades, they were unable to
withstand the fury of the onslaught, and were
driven back to the parallel.
Later in the evening several other assaults were
made, and though the Japanese each time suc-
ceeded in capturing the trench, they were as
surely driven out again by the determined
Russian counter-attacks. At i o’clock in the
morning the commander of the 12th regiment
decided to give up any further attempt for the
nonce, and to postpone further operations till the
day of the impending general attack, when the
Russians would be so taken up with fighting in
every direction, that they would be unable to
concentrate their efforts on any particular spot.
So the Russians remained masters of the field.
In the hard-fought-for trenches Russian and
Japanese corpses lay in heaps, pitifully inter-
mingled, and the open space in front of the
trench was black with killed and badly-wounded
men. Within a couple of days all were dead.
To attempt to remove the wounded was quite
out of the question, and so all perished. For the
second time the “ Tragedy Trench ” had proved
rightly named. It was not to be the last time.
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