Staff-Surgeon Dr. Lange, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made, as witness, the following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Richard Gotthold Lange, 33 years old; Protestant; Staff-Surgeon and Battalion Surgeon of the 3rd Battalion Infantry Regiment No. 178.
As to Case: Directly after the entry of the battalion into Leffe it was surprised by shots which not only came from the two ranges of hills but also from the houses and cellars. The houses from which the shots came were thereupon searched for sharpshooters and the guilty civilians found there were shot. The houses from which there was no firing were searched in the same way, and their occupants were guarded in the street. It was reported to me that a sergeant-major of the 9th Company of my regiment had been severely wounded, whereupon I rode through the streets and was continuously fired at from the houses, especially from the cellars. I found two German wounded inside the houses, further, one dead in a cellar and another dead on a ground floor. As the number of the wounded accumulated, I saw myself obliged to arrange as a dressing-station the villa of Councillor Adam, where I was busy up till 11 o'clock at night. The number of the wounded German soldiers, on the handing over of the hospital to the 2nd Medical Company, amounted to about eighty men.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Dr. Lange.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Starke, Officer of the Court.
C. App. 72.
Present:
Military Magistrate, Naumann.
Secretary of Military Court, Schwarzbach.
La Malmaison, December 8th, 1914.