As to Case: Directly after the entry of the battalion into Leffe it was surprised by shots which not only came from the two ranges of hills but also from the houses and cellars. The houses from which the shots came were thereupon searched for sharpshooters and the guilty civilians found there were shot. The houses from which there was no firing were searched in the same way, and their occupants were guarded in the street. It was reported to me that a sergeant-major of the 9th Company of my regiment had been severely wounded, whereupon I rode through the streets and was continuously fired at from the houses, especially from the cellars. I found two German wounded inside the houses, further, one dead in a cellar and another dead on a ground floor. As the number of the wounded accumulated, I saw myself obliged to arrange as a dressing-station the villa of Councillor Adam, where I was busy up till 11 o'clock at night. The number of the wounded German soldiers, on the handing over of the hospital to the 2nd Medical Company, amounted to about eighty men. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: Dr. LANGE. The witness was thereupon sworn. Signed: STARKE, Officer of the Court. C. App. 72. Present: Military Magistrate, NAUMANN. Secretary of Military Court, SCHWARZBACH. LA MALMAISON, _December 8th, 1914_. In the inquiry concerning the violations of International Law committed against German troops, there appeared as witness Medical Non-commissioned Officer Ostmann of the 5th Company, Grenadier Regiment No. 101, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made the following statement: As to Person: My name is Otto Eduard Ostmann, 26 years old; Protestant; shop assistant by trade. As to Case: On the evening of August 23rd, 1914, when it was getting dark, my company entered Les Rivages. It halted in the street at the beginning of the place. As there was no medical non-commissioned officer farther on, I went as far as the crossing-place over the Meuse and stood close by in the middle of the street. There was no one in the street in my immediate neighbourhood. While I was facing the houses where some civilians were standing, a shot fell from a house to the right of me; I immediately felt a stinging pain under my right eye and felt blood running down my cheek. My Battalion-Surgeon, Dr. Haupt, after examining the wound, said that a small shot had grazed me. The shot could only have been meant for me, since I was the only person standing in an open space of 2 metres in circumference. I had duly put on the Geneva Cross band, which was visible. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: OTTO EDUARD OSTMANN. The witness was thereupon sworn. Signed: NAUMANN. Signed: SCHWARZBACH. C. App. 73. Present: Military Magistrate, NAUMANN. Secretary of the Military Court, SCHWARZBACH.