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THE OPENING OF THE BALL 63
did not push its attack further in this direc-
tion. Their operations were meant only as a
demonstration to draw the Russian forces away
from the real point of attack. They had suc-
ceeded in this, though at a heavy cost, and they
had captured an important position, in spite of
a very harassing Russian fire.
While this fighting was taking place on the
Russian extreme left, other demonstrations were
made towards their centre. The 3rd regiment of
the ist Division attacked the Russian outposts in
Shuishi village, and drove them out after some
hard close-range fighting. They pursued them
across the plain towards a strong lunette some
500 yards to the south of the village, made
an attack on the entrenchment, and succeeded
for a short while in getting a foothold there ;
but the three machine guns which formed part
of the armament had retired in good time and
taken up a position behind the open gorge of the
work, and showered such a rain of bullets on the
assailants massed in the narrow unprotected inner
room of the lunette, that they soon were compelled
to clear out with a loss of over 300 men. This
terminated for the time the operations in this
direction.
Simultaneously with these demonstrations the
right wing of the 9th Division attacked the
Lungyen redoubt in the Shuishi valley, generally
known to the correspondents as the Red Redoubt
on account of the colour of the soil where it
stood. This redoubt, which is situated to the
north of the railway in front of and at a considerable
distance from the Erhlung fort, is a small but very
strong work, and its position was such, that a very
harassing fire could be directed from it against
the Japanese advance lines, especially against the
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