The proceedings were as above described.
Signed: Kruppe, Lieutenant and Adjutant,
1st Battalion,
Grenadier Regiment No. 10.
App. 28.
Report of 3rd Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 62 (78th Infantry Brigade).
1. Major Schwerb of the 3rd Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 62, states:
On August 23rd, after I had placed the wounded Lieutenant Rocholl on a waggon in order to convey him to a Medical Corps Company, at least twenty shots were fired at him and myself. The house from which the shots issued was thereupon to a large extent destroyed by the fire of a battery which happened to be passing through the village. On the same evening the battalion, which was marching through Frenois in the dark, was fired upon, again obviously by inhabitants, from roof windows and trees.
2. Captain Rothe of the 9th Company of the regiment states:
On August 23rd civilians opened fire on the water-carriers of the 9th Company from the village of Rossignol, which was already occupied by German troops. The leader of the water-carriers was Sergeant Flashar. In consequence, the civilians were taken prisoners by the men of Infantry Regiment No. 157. On August 23rd Cyclist Heinrich was similarly fired at by civilians in the village of Les Bulles, after a considerable force of German troops had already marched through the place.
3. Lieutenant Stuth of the 11th Company states:
On August 23rd, when the 3rd Battalion had withdrawn from Les Bulles, I led the 12th Company to Frenois. We halted in the village street to wait for the other companies, which I fetched up by orders of Major Schwerk, as Adjutant-Lieutenant Rocholl had been severely wounded. In the meantime, the company was suddenly and unexpectedly assailed by shots fired from the windows by inhabitants.