When I had heard the first two or three shots of the inhabitants from the houses opposite the station--it was about 8 o'clock p.m., shortly after dark--I noticed coming in a south-westerly direction a swarm of small bluish balls of light that descended on us without making any noise and were then extinguished. I immediately drew the attention of the soldiers near me to this; five to six soldiers had, so they told me, made the same observation as I had done. In my opinion, this rocket was to be the sign for the inhabitants to begin firing at once upon the German soldiers; in any case, it is certain that immediately after the appearance of the rocket in the sky, the inhabitants fired from their houses. I saw that we German soldiers were fired on from two houses in the station square directly from the roof and from the attic windows. I can swear according to the truth that in the station square where my company lay, the inhabitants were the first to fire on us from the houses, and that it was only then, after the Belgians had commenced the firing, that we Germans fired on the houses in the station square. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: ARNOLD SCHMIELE. The witness was then sworn. Signed: Dr. IVERS. Signed: RAMBEAU. D. App. 13. Court of the Government-General at Brussels. Present: Dr. IVERS, Judge of Military Law. Secretary, RAMBEAU. LOUVAIN, _September 18th, 1914_. Landsturm-soldier Küppers, Landsturm Battalion Neuss, made the following statement: As to Person: My name is Hubert Küppers, born at Güchen, district of Grevenbroich, on April 11th, 1877; Catholic. As to Case: I am a soldier of the 1st Company, Landsturm Infantry Battalion Neuss. On August 25th I was, in the evening between 7 and 9 o'clock, sentinel in front of the main entrance to the station building at Louvain. At about 8 o'clock the leader of our company arrived with his company in the station square. One part of the company drew up between our baggage-carts in the station square, another part lay down on the ground a few paces from us. The company had only been in the station square for about five minutes when I saw a green rocket go up, going in the direction above the Hôtel "Maria Theresa" at the station square. I saw how the rocket became extinguished above the Monument in the station square and a number of bright, many-coloured little balls fell down, which all went out in the air before they touched the ground.