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NOVEMBER 225
his aide with him and came up to our camp,
saying,
“ I have read your invitation, gentlemen. I
am going to take you at your word. I am a
soldier ;
please give me some tea.”
The General had always the right word at the
right time.
He sat chatting with us for about half an hour
and then left. Already whilst he sat with us the
musketry fire had been more than usually heavy,
and very soon after his departure it became
furious. Machine guns joined in the chorus and
hundreds of guns began to belch forth as heavy a
fire as at any of the big attacks.
We went out again, but it was already beginning
to grow dark, and it was impossible for us to say
what was really taking place. It seemed like a
big Russian counter-attack up towards Erhlung ;
the musket and the machine gun fire was all in
that direction. Most of the artillery fire was
Russian. Shells and shrapnel were bursting by
hundreds over the Japanese parallels and the
approaches leading up to Erhlung and Sungshuh
forts. The fighting, whatever it was, lasted for
about an hour and a half. Then suddenly it died
down. Not until next morning at Headquarters
could we learn what had happened and what the
result had been.
It appears that after the explosions at Erhlung
had taken place the Japanese, at about 3 p.m.,
sent a patrol, consisting of a non-commissioned
officer and two men, across the moat to report on
the construction and the condition of the fortifica-
tions. They succeeded in getting across un-
observed and lay down under the sandbag breast-
work on the top of the parapet. They peeped
over and found that they were lying in front of
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