On August 26th a few isolated shots fell near the station. On my request, the commandant of a battalion—according to my notes it must have been Colonel von Treskow, 2nd Battalion, Reserve Regiment No. 76—had various houses on the road to Tirlemont cleared; this officer told me that in doing so he lost one of his reserve officers. I cannot say whether there were persons of the Garde Civique among the Belgians who fired on us.
As to the persons shot—I speak, of course, only of my own observations—it had been ascertained by witnesses that they were guilty.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Karl Dörffer, 1st Lieutenant of the Reserve.
The witness was then sworn.
Signed: Hahn, Captain and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Friedrich Walz, Secretary.
D. App. 45.
Court of the Mobile Commissary Commando, 1, VII. Army Corps.
Present:
President, Elble.
Secretary, Casser.
Péronne, December 29th, 1914.