It is not true that soldiers of the Guards Regiment or of any other regiment have taken any action which was not absolutely required by the military situation or in consequence of the behaviour of the civilian population. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: Lieutenant of Reserve PRIETZEL. Witness was thereupon sworn. Signed: VON LOEBEN, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court. Signed: BAIER, Non-commissioned Officer and Clerk of the Military Court. C. App. 10. Present: President of the Court, SCHWEINITZ. Secretary, LIPS. NEUFCHÂTEL, _February 16th, 1915_. In the matter for investigation with reference to the events in Dinant, Acting-Sergeant-Major Bartusch appeared as witness. After he had been made acquainted with the object of the investigation, and the importance of the oath to be taken had been pointed out, he was examined as follows: As to Person: My name is Georg Wilhelm Bartusch. I am 33 years of age; Protestant; Acting-Sergeant-Major, Battalion Drummer, 1st Battalion, (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100. As to Case: On August 23rd I served on the staff of the 1st Battalion in Dinant. We slid down the steep slopes into Dinant rather than ran. An inhabitant, the Luxemburger mentioned below, told me they did not believe we should get down; on the contrary, they reckoned that we would be shot on the way. From the very beginning we were assailed by fire from the houses, small shot was also used; the firing came from all the openings in the houses, from the windows and doors, and also from holes cut out between the roof and wall. Below in the town we sought a temporary shelter in a warehouse nearly opposite the gaol. From here an attempt was made to clear the neighbourhood of sharpshooters. All those of the inhabitants who were found in the houses were taken to the prison. The persons who had been caught with weapons in their hands were separated and placed against the garden wall near the open place. They were there shot by a detachment of Grenadiers by order of Lieutenant-Colonel Count Kielmannsegg. How many there were, I cannot exactly say; there may have been 50 or 100. They stood in three or four rows, and were to my knowledge only men. That women and children were shot with them, I did not see. One man tried to keep a child on his arm, but this was prevented by a woman who took the child from him. One must try to imagine the confusion prevailing, and that all this was taking place while we were still being fired on. I think it is possible that some of the women and children, whom we had forced away from the men, had fled behind the wall of the garden, and that there they perished either by our bullets which pierced the wall or by the bullets of the enemy on the other bank of the Meuse. Everyone who stayed out of doors did so at the continual risk of his life. At the very commencement, when we reached Dinant, a girl of about thirteen