Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: August Stellmacher.
Signed: Traue, Lieutenant and Company Leader.
App. 27.
Statement of Captain von Rode, Grenadier Regiment No. 10.
Binarville, September 25th, 1914.
There appeared as witness Captain von Rode, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Regiment No. 10, who made the following statement:
On August 22nd, in the fight at Tintigny, the 1st Company of Grenadier Regiment No. 10 was acting as escort for artillery near Ansart. When the artillery was pushed forward a hot fire was opened on the infantry men by the civilians of the place.
Lieutenant von Lindeiner, Foot Artillery Regiment No. 6, requested the company to proceed with the battery through the village as they could not pass through it without the protection of an infantry escort. The company was likewise met by shots the moment it entered the place. The firing was especially violent from the mill, which was occupied by some thirty men, with women and children. A number of persons, before the company arrived on the scene, ran off through the bushes, carrying guns with them. Guns that were discovered were of quite recent manufacture from Liège. While the company was clearing the mill it was suddenly fired at from the cellar windows and roof windows of the big white house which lay obliquely opposite. A portion of the shots struck the artillery equipment. Two small detachments, which at once stormed the house, shot down three civilians armed with guns, who were trying to escape from the back through the garden. Their guns were new, and came from Liège.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: von Rode.