By order there appeared as witness Captain von Montbé, who, being warned to speak the whole truth, made the following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Charles Sylvester Alban von Montbé. I am 31 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: It has not come to my knowledge that any cruelties have been committed by our soldiers on the inhabitants of Dinant; neither have the inhabitants of Dinant been ill-treated or mutilated or been badly treated at all; on the other hand, various inhabitants of the place who have treacherously fired from the houses, so far as one could get hold of them, were shot.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: v. Montbé.
Witness was hereupon sworn.
Signed: Bandel, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Haunstein, Non-commissioned Officer
and Military Clerk of the Court.
C. App. 9.
Guignicourt, January 8th, 1915.
Deposition.