Present:
President of the Court, Schweinitz.
Secretary, Lips.
Quarters of Infantry Regiment No. 178,
March 3rd, 1915.
In the inquiry concerning the events in Dinant there appeared Private Max Julius Trenkler as witness, who, after the reading over of the preceding statement, declared: Details as to myself are correctly given; I am an excavation worker.
As to Case: On the afternoon of August 23rd, 1914, we lay in reserve on the northern slope of the Leffe valley opposite the convent in the wood. There we saw how a boy on the opposite slope behind the convent fired at us from a fir copse, and with small shot too. The shot fell in our vicinity. We called to comrades who were on the road to go and search for the lad behind the convent. They then brought him along. I do not know what they did with him.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Trenkler.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Schweinitz. Signed: Lips.
C. App. 64.
Report on the encounter of the Machine-Gun Company with Francs-Tireurs at Leffe-Dinant on August 23rd, 1914.