In one street the company was fired on from the rear; many of the men said at once that the assailant was a woman; this, however, could not be established with certainty. Among the men seized I saw one of youthful age; all the rest were older; grey-haired men were also among them. Signed: LUCIUS, 1st Lieutenant and Company Leader. _Deposition._ Present: Lieutenant THOMAS, as Officer of the Court. Acting-Sergeant-Major LANGE, as Clerk of the Court. There appeared as witness Non-commissioned Officer Macher, who, having been advised of the statement read, deposed as follows: As to Person: My name is Paul Otto Macher. I am 23 years old; Protestant; non-commissioned officer, Infantry Regiment No. 178. As to Case: I maintain my statement. Signed: MACHER, Non-commissioned Officer. Signed: THOMAS. Signed: LANGE. C. App. 30. Having been apprised of the significance of the oath, and advised as to the object of the examination, Major Fränzel made the following statement: As to Person: My name is Georg Friedrich Artur Fränzel. I am 45 years old; Protestant; Major and Battalion Commander, Infantry Regiment No. 178. As to Case: On August 23rd the 2nd Battalion, as 1st, received the order to place itself in possession of Leffe. The whole of the Regimental Staff rode with the leading company. At the beginning of the valley, which stretches away to Leffe, there stood a factory; the battalion was fired at from here and from the heights behind. The factory was at once stormed; only a few civilians were found in it, but no French or Belgian soldiers; any escape of the people who had fired from the factory was impossible as we had surrounded the place. The guilty civilians, provided they were men, were shot by order of the Commander of the regiment, Colonel von Reyter, while some women arrested in the factory were handed over later to the abbot of the monastery.