Lieutenant Edler von Daniels testifies that in a Belgian village near Blegny his patrol was fired upon from ambush. This took place in a street where the 9th Company had bivouacked for a day and a night.
At Troisfontaines the 11th Company was fired upon from the houses by civilians. Musketeers Meister and Schwaffertz were wounded. In this same place men belonging to this company were in the daytime entertained with cigars and food, and particularly by an elderly man; this same man fired by night and wounded a man of the company.
Staff-Surgeon Dr. Falk, who, with the ambulance party of the 1st Battalion, wanted to push forward to the wounded on August 5th, 1914, was fired upon by civilians, so that he was forced to take shelter. Non-commissioned Officer Voss of the 4th Company was killed by three shots from civilians. He could not be fetched, as the street had been brought under fire by the inhabitants. Lieutenant Hahn was an eye-witness of what took place.
In Anderlues shots were fired from a house by a French soldier and a civilian. An Acting-Sergeant-Major and non-commissioned officer were seriously wounded, a musketeer of the 11th Company was killed. A witness of this occurrence is Captain Eckhardt. The soldier and civilian were shot.
Signed: von Gottberg.
App. 4.
Military Court Examination of Staff-Surgeon of Reserve Dr. Rehm, Infantry Regiment No. 165.
Cherisy, November 23rd, 1914.
Court of the 7th Infantry Division.
President of the Court, Dr. Welt.
Secretary, Lorenz.
There appeared as witness Staff-Surgeon of Reserve Dr. Rehm, 3rd Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 165, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made the following statement: