C. App. 63. There appeared Private Trenkler, 12th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178, who stated: As to Person: My name is Max Julius Trenkler; I was born on December 31st, 1891, at Markersdorf; Protestant; at the time on the active list, 12th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178. As to Case: I have seen civilians firing with (small) shot, and, in a like manner, children have fired on our soldiers in the rear of the convent. Signed: MAX TRENKLER. Signed: RYSSEL, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court. Signed: SCHULTZ, Acting-Sergeant-Major and Clerk of the Court. Present: President of the Court, SCHWEINITZ. Secretary, LIPS. QUARTERS OF INFANTRY REGIMENT NO. 178, _March 3rd, 1915_. In the inquiry concerning the events in Dinant there appeared Private Max Julius Trenkler as witness, who, after the reading over of the preceding statement, declared: Details as to myself are correctly given; I am an excavation worker. As to Case: On the afternoon of August 23rd, 1914, we lay in reserve on the northern slope of the Leffe valley opposite the convent in the wood. There we saw how a boy on the opposite slope behind the convent fired at us from a fir copse, and with small shot too. The shot fell in our vicinity. We called to comrades who were on the road to go and search for the lad behind the convent. They then brought him along. I do not know what they did with him. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: TRENKLER. The witness was thereupon sworn. Signed: SCHWEINITZ. Signed: LIPS. C. App. 64. REPORT on the encounter of the Machine-Gun Company with Francs-Tireurs at Leffe-Dinant on August 23rd, 1914. Machine-Gun Company, Infantry Regiment No. 102. The Machine-Gun Company of Infantry Regiment No. 102 had started off from Houx in the rear of the regiment towards the evening of August 23rd, 1914, and had marched along the Meuse to Leffe. When the company had entered Leffe about midnight, and the last of their vehicles were passing a bridge, two white figures were all at once seen under it. The men of the company bringing up the rear noticed these people; two shots followed close upon one another, and immediately after two figures enveloped in white clothes were seen to jump into the Meuse. The marksmen of the Machine-Gun Company fired at the two persons, who, shortly after, were washed up dead to the bank. A closer examination showed that they were two men wearing female dress, who had wrapped themselves up in white cloths. Under the bridge stood two chairs, and from here the column in marching by had been fired on. It was supposed that the two francs-tireurs wanted to blow up the bridge, and, surprised by our people, flew to arms; as their retreat was cut off, they wanted to make their way through the water.