Signed: Börner.
The witness was sworn.
Signed: Schweinitz. Signed: Lips.
App. 17.
Report of Captain and Detachment Commander, 4th Infantry Munitions Column, and Military Court Examination of Acting-Sergeant-Major Kern, 3rd Infantry Munitions Column.
Siffone, October 2nd, 1914.
Report.
On the 22nd of August 1914, at midday, I arrived at the northern entrance of Marche with the 4th Infantry Munitions Column, which I commanded, and received orders to pass through the village to the southern exit. I rode with some mounted men through the place, the principal buildings of which had already been arranged and taken over as hospitals. There was also here some of our infantry. Several inhabitants, amongst them a priest, were standing in the street, apparently inoffensive.
As I returned through the village, somebody levelled a gun at me from the window on the first storey of a house in the neighbouring street. My assailant was, however, prevented from carrying out his purpose, thanks to the watchfulness of an infantry sentry, who anticipated the treacherous villager and frustrated his purpose by a shot from his own rifle. Hereupon a lively fusillade developed from all the houses, in which the village priest took part.
Signed: Michahelles, Captain and Detachment Commander.