Late in the afternoon, since the whole place was not yet in our hands, the artillery bombarded the town, which now, for the most part, became enveloped in flames. Towards 8 o'clock in the evening the house-fighting in the midst of the burning streets broke out once more for a short time. The civilians detained in the prison were brought out. Old men, women, and children were released; the men were led by up to Marche as prisoners. On the morning of August 24th, after the pontoons had been repaired, the regiment began to cross in pursuit of the retreating enemy. While this was going on, shots from different houses struck the marching column. C. App. 7. WILLMSBARACKEN, _January 6th, 1915_. _Deposition._ By order of the (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100, Lieutenant-Colonel Count Kielmannsegg appeared for examination and, being warned to speak the whole truth, made the following deposition: As to Person: My name is Bernhardt Hermann Carl Kedel, Count Kielmannsegg, born in Celle (Hanover) on July 6th, 1866; evangelical-Lutheran; Lieutenant-Colonel in the (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100 and Commander of the 1st Battalion. As to Case: The town of Dinant was attacked and occupied at about 8 o'clock in the forenoon on August 23rd, 1914, by the 3rd Company, 1st Battalion, 1st (Guards) Grenadier Regiment. No enemy troops were discovered on the right bank of the Meuse. Notwithstanding this, our troops were fired on from the houses of the town by persons in civilian clothing without any military badge or uniform, whereby Captain Legler, the first of the Guards Company to enter the town, was severely wounded. Sections of the town were assigned to the companies for the purpose of searching and clearing, with the injunction to take all inhabitants, so long as they offered no resistance, to the town gaol; all those who offered resistance to be dealt with by force of arms. The occupant of the house, from which Captain Legler was wounded, was shot by my order. Infringements of the orders given by me have not been reported from anywhere. The search took place by patrols under leaders who were detailed for this purpose by the companies. Several hundred inhabitants were brought into the town gaol, and there put under guard. Before leaving the town, in which the three companies had been engaged, from about 8 o'clock in the morning until about 8 o'clock in the evening, in constant street and house fighting, with their own losses as indicated, about a hundred guilty inhabitants of the male sex were shot by my direction and in accordance with an order given by higher authority. Our own wounded, as well as the inhabitants who were wounded, chiefly by the fire of the enemy on the left bank of the Meuse, were bandaged and taken care of by Chief-Doctor Merx of the 2nd Battalion of the (Guards) Grenadier Regiment in a house prepared for this purpose. Read over, approved, signed.