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HELL 213
dynamite bombs in the loopholes in the northern
part of the passage. They succeeded in the
daring attempt, and, as soon as the explosion
took place, the Japanese tore down the sand-bag
wall which blocked the entrance to the passage
and stormed in. They were promptly driven back
by rifle fire from the first improvised partition wall,
the small opening in which the Russians had
immediately closed with sand-bags.
It looked as if the Japanese would have to begin
the old game from the front chambers over again.
But one of the men had an idea. He built up
a little breastwork of three sandbags, two at the
bottom and one on top. He lay down on his
back behind them, perfectly sheltered from the
enemy’s fire ;
then, bending his knees and bracing
his feet against the wall, he pushed his little
breastwork in front of him until his legs were fully
stretched out. Then another man placed himself
between the first man and the wall ;
both bent
their knees ;
the first man put his feet against the
other man’s shoulders, who in turn braced his
feet against the wall, and in this way the sandbags
were pushed on a little further, some seven or
eight feet from the entrance. Then they crept
back again for more bags, and soon they had
built up a breastwork some four or five feet high
right across the passage.
From now the game was an easy one. Having
built their breastwork three sandbags thick, they
now took the bags of the inner row, lifted them
up and dumped them on the other side, then the
next row in the same manner, and in this way,
foot by foot, the breastwork was moved forwards
until it was right up against the first Russian
partition wall, the loopholes in which they closed
with sandbags.
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