This report is in full conformity with the truth. In addition to those statements which, as may be recognised from the report, are based on the statements of others, I mention that I pointed out to the individuals whom I questioned to tell me the whole truth, so that their statements could also be maintained on oath.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Wilke.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Schweinitz. Signed: Lips.
C. App. 27.
Sender: 7th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178.
Date: February 15th, 1915.
Time: 11 a.m.
To the 2nd Battalion.
On August 23rd, 1914, towards 9.45 a.m., the 7th Company—placed at the disposal of the 3rd Battalion, which was fighting in Leffe—marched into this place. While I rode on to report the arrival of my company to the Commander of the 3rd Battalion, 178th Regiment, the company halted on the lower road leading to the Meuse, under cover from the opposite heights of the Meuse, which were occupied by the enemy.