The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-08

ravine on the farther side 80 per cent
of the men had fallen from shrapnel
and shell fire. Looking ahead and hav-
ing reports from accommodating parties
of pioneers, the colonel, named Taxa
gagi, sent back word to the command
ing general that the assault was not
feasible. He advised a halt. He Sug-
gested that his troops rest where they
were, throw up temporary intrench-
ments for the night, project sappers
and wait for the slow. sure and COM
paratively safe method Of engineering
advance.
! forwarded to him. The commanding
/ general CURLY replied that one regi-
ment was enough to take one battery
Up to this time Takagagi had been
| marching, as colonies usually march,
/ at the rear of his men, the front being
under charge of his line officers; but
| receiving the command from the gen
! eral, he leaped out of the ravine at the
head of his men, calling to them as he
/ went:
He fell with four bullets through his
breast ten PAGES beyond. One after
another his officers were shot down;
/ the men likewise. OF the three thou
sand that Takagagi commanded, 217
/ survived that day. They were ordered
! TO Join the reserves
Ichinobe, Japanese Marshal Ney.
[ But the commanding general,
/ frightful though his character may
! seem. was not one TO order his men
| 10 go where he would not go himself.
! 1t was the same geperal-Ichinobe-
who became the japanese Marshal
Ney two months later. on Oct. %.
In the advance during the grand as
/ sault, two battaliOns under his COM
/ mand succeeded in entering another
/ outwork of this great Cockscomb for
/ LITIGATION. called the P. Redoubt. This
! p. Redoubt was in a difficult situation,
/ wedged UP against the Chinese wall,
/ which was the main line of permanent
I Russian defense. and commanded as all
| Tedoubts at Port Arthur are COM
] manded. by several other more import
/ ant batteries. Yet, in spite of this fine
| situation, the japanese did succeed in
! getting into il and holding their line
I there all the afternoon and evening.
IchinObe retired some time after mid
| night secure in the feeling that his
/ work had been successful. Toward 3
/ O'clock in the morning he was reused
I by an orderlys who reported that his
men had been driven from the P. Fort.
/ He was then half a mile as the crow
/ flies, out nearly one and a half miles by
zIg-zag line of trenches, affOrding pro-
/ lection across the valley before reach
/ ing the slope of the TedOubt.
! Leaping from his couch. he called his
! staff officers, issued hurried orders to
! the reserves. and at the head of his
/ immediate followers ran through the
/ zig- gag trenches. Reaching the fore
/ most line. now hot under the fire OF
| Russian machine guns, he found his
/ command not demolished. but sur
/ prised, outnumbered and beng sullenly
/ driven back.
/ Drawing his saber he thrust the
ranks aside. passed through. and at
/ the head of his men charged up the
/ slope into the contested redOUbt. With
| his own hand ne killed five Russians.
! When dawn came his brigade occupied
/ the p. RedouDt.
His immediate commander. General
| Oshima, had an account Of the exploit
/ telegrapbed to the emperor at Toxic.
That afternoon an imperial order
! re Ched the army christening the fort
/ 'ichinObe." On the map today and IN
! the dispatches. one may read of Ichin-
ODE fort as a critical position on the
main eastern line of defense
/ It was still nearly another month,
! that is Dec. Is. before that battery
against which Takag3gi and mis- heroic
/ regiment lost their nves, namely, the
north battery of the east Heekwan
/ fort was finally taken
( IN the first assault, on Aug. u. the
few men who reached the parapet re-
! ceiVcd in their faces storms of what the
( Chinese cal stink pots''-that is, balls
| of fresh dung. THIS assault failed
/ wholly. The dead were left to rot
where they lay. and the. wounded We're
shot as they lay. the stencil of the
4 Corpses being used IS "A weapon of Of
/ Tense against the Japanese, trying to
maintain the advantage they had
/ gained at the foot Of The slope.
The next time they assaulted. which
was on Sept 10 the japanese We're met
with hand Srenades OF gun cotton. II
was not grand assault. but merely a
! demonstration. It. also failed.
Frightful Traps of Caponieres.
In the taird assault on oct %, half
way up the hill he advance stun bled
over a mine. and the entire lower
shoulder o. the mountain was blown
! into he air. taking with il some twen-
J ty-ifve men, heads awry. legs and arms
twisted. trunks shattered.
New volunteers advanced through
the crater thus formed. up the glacfs
of the rsdoubt, until they reached a
trap which they had been unable to dis
tinguish from the valley below, owing
( TO its cunning concealment under the
paraDet level with an innocent height
that looked precisely similar to every
other furze-covered height in the vi
entity.
IT WAS a moat. The Japanese did
not hesitate to leap in. That leap was
TO death.