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Updated: June 3, 2025
I applied to the Japanese commander, General Oie, through Major Pichon that our trains, directly it was dark, might be allowed to return to Svagena to shunt the injured gun to the rear train. About 7 P.M., while preparing to return for this purpose, a few sharp rifle-cracks were heard near the centre of the line.
I heard a number of rifle-cracks, as I judged they were, but I did not see a man." "It was wholly done by a volunteer company of riflemen, attached to my platoon for this occasion." "I saw the enemy fall when they started to march over here, and after they took to the stream; but I could not make out the force that fired the shots. There must have been a hundred of them."
Each of them had unslung his Mannlicher and held it in hand since the moment of the first alarm, and now they opened the magazine and saw that all was in perfect order. Then they threw the deadly little rifles into the embrasures formed by the window slits, and all was ready for the word. "Fire!" cried Jack, and the swift trill of rifle-cracks rang out on the soft evening silence.
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