Amifontaine, October 3rd, 1914.
Field Hospital No. 2 of the XII. Army Corps, posted at Sorinnes was, on the evening of the following day, between 7 and 8 o'clock, fired upon by armed inhabitants from the park of the castle. The shots came from the thicket immediately behind the castle courtyard. The fire was aimed at the personnel of the hospital, who were engaged in cooking in a large house next to the park. As I myself, with hospital inspector Voigt, entered the park in order to see after the cooking, we were fired at.
Signed: Dr. Kaiser, Senior Staff-Surgeon and Surgeon-in-Chief.
App. 33.
Report of Senior Staff-Surgeon Esche, Field Hospital 7, No. 73, N. Army Corps.
On August 24th, towards 6 p.m., a column on the march was at Biesme fired upon by inhabitants from the houses of the village. A detachment of some 50 men of Infantry Regiment No. 164, which was guarding 216 prisoners in the castle garden in which the Field Hospital No. 7 was posted, moved out in order to restore quiet, while for the time being lightly wounded men undertook the guarding of the prisoners. Sergeant Kortebein and two drivers of Field Hospital No. 7, Schmidt and Dietrich, saw shots fired from two of the houses.
According to the statement of the lady occupying the castle of Gougnies, in which the medical officers and officials of the field hospital were quartered, the Conseiller provinciel at Gougnies, Adelin Piret, had distributed to the inhabitants the weapons stored up at the Mairie. Shots were fired from the village at a column marching through it.
Signed: Esche, Senior Staff-Surgeon and Surgeon-in-Chief.
App. 34.
Report of 1st Lieutenant Balterman, commanding Military Pack Column No. 6, X. Army Corps, 1st Train Division of the X. Army Corps.