Proceedings concluded.
Signed: Hidding. Signed: Harries.
App. 51.
Court of the Belgian Government-General.
Brussels, December 14th, 1915.
Present:
President of the Court, Säger.
Military Court Assistant, Dunve, as Secretary.
Interpreter Fulles of the Military Court of the Province of Brabant, once for all put on oath.
There appeared as witness the merchant, Heinrich Bloch, of 35 Rue du Marché, Brussels, who made the following statements:
As to Person: My name is as given above. I am 68 years old, of the Jewish faith; a citizen of Baden.
As to Case: Up to 6 a.m. on August 20th, 1914, I was in Brussels. In the Brussels newspaper there was published a demand that weapons should be given up. On August 19th, 1914, I sent my man-servant to the Commissariat, Rue Croisate, with a revolver which he was to hand in. After a brief interval he returned and used these exact words, "One must not believe everything one reads in the newspapers" ("Il ne faut pas croire tout qu'on lit dans les journeaux").
The proclamations were officially issued by the Burgomeister. That the Commissaire took us to be Belgians, I have no reason to believe. The Commissaire who had refrained from taking the revolver from my man-servant fell in Belgium, when and where I cannot say.