As to Case: After mobilisation I volunteered for duty as motor-driver, and as such I was assigned to the Staff of the IX. Reserve Army Corps. On the evening of August 25th, 1914, we arrived in Louvain. At first the inhabitants were very obliging. My motor-car was put in the market-place, a big square near which is the Hôtel Métropole. In the evening, towards 9 o'clock, we motor-drivers stood under the trees of the place and chatted together. Comrades told me they had seen a rocket go up. Suddenly an awful firing commenced from the houses surrounding the place. The fire was first of all directed on the baggage-carts which were to be drawn up at the place. Each one of us sought cover, I on a baggage-cart, the horses of which had just been shot. My car showed later on a hole as large as a fist in the protective cover and in the body of the car; to judge by the way the tin was bent, the shot must have come from below, from a cellar. Whilst we sought cover, the firing continued, and some of us were wounded. In my opinion this was a well-prepared and planned attack of the civilian population. After the firing had become less violent, we drivers went to the station. At the market-place and in its small side-streets the houses were burning. During our drive to the station, German patrols passed us everywhere. In the station square firing took place principally from the four large hotels there. The firing in the station square continued till the morning. Those persons of the town who had participated in the attack upon the Germans were taken to the station square in the course of the evening and during the night. An officer then examined them; the soldiers who had brought up the people were examined. A number of men, nearly fifty, were shot in the station square after the examination was over. As far as I remember, there were two persons in clerical garb amongst them; but there may have been more. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: CARL DAMMANN. The witness was then sworn. Signed: Dr. STEENGRAFE, President. Signed: MEYER. D. App. 42. Court of the Commander at Altona. Present: President, Dr. STEENGRAFE. Secretary, KAHL. ALTONA, _December 28th, 1914_. On citation there appears as witness Captain of Landwehr II. Hermansen, who, after the sanctity of the oath had been pointed out to him, makes the following statement: As to Person: My name is Richard, aged 37; Protestant; Public Prosecutor at Düsseldorf; at present in the Reserve Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 76, Hamburg. As to Case: I arrived at Louvain on August 25th at about 9 o'clock p.m. after a railway journey of 55 hours. At the moment of alighting a violent fire was opened upon the station and its vicinity from the houses lying round the station. I also heard a mechanical noise, which I took to be machine-gun fire.