Through officers of the Mecklenburg Dragoons belonging to the General Commando of the IX. Reserve Army Corps--if I remember right, through Captain von Alten and another officer--the news was received at the station that even the transport of the Army Corps had been fired on in the town. A high officer gave the command to search the hotel mentioned and other houses, and then to set them on fire. A number of persons, partly middle aged, partly older people, were taken out of these houses, and a great number of them--but only males--were immediately shot according to martial law. It was then quiet in the station square for a long time. I would point out that I could not stand in the station square continuously, because I had business to transact in the station itself. It was therefore impossible for me to watch all the events in front of the station. At about 11 or 11.30 p.m.--most of the houses in the station square were burning--a volley was fired on us from the roof of an hotel on the left of the station; the hotel was already burning at the bottom. I stood, as it happened, in the centre of the station square with several officers; there remained nothing for us but to throw ourselves upon the ground so as to offer the smallest possible target. Orders were then given to search this house once again; in spite of this, a few isolated shots were fired during the night from the houses in the station square, especially from the houses on the road to Tirlemont, opposite the loading ramp, upon which artillery and vehicles were unloaded even during the night. I know that, after the volley had been fired from the house last mentioned, a high officer gave orders to clear the people from all the houses round the station; a number of women and children, also old and middle-aged men, were thereupon apprehended; a few of the men were shot according to martial law, but in a great number of cases it could not longer be ascertained whether they had taken part in the firing. These persons were first housed in the station; part of them were later on transported. On August 26th a few isolated shots fell near the station. On my request, the commandant of a battalion--according to my notes it must have been Colonel von Treskow, 2nd Battalion, Reserve Regiment No. 76--had various houses on the road to Tirlemont cleared; this officer told me that in doing so he lost one of his reserve officers. I cannot say whether there were persons of the Garde Civique among the Belgians who fired on us. As to the persons shot--I speak, of course, only of my own observations--it had been ascertained by witnesses that they were guilty. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: KARL DÖRFFER, 1st Lieutenant of the Reserve. The witness was then sworn. Signed: HAHN, Captain and Officer of the Court. Signed: FRIEDRICH WALZ, Secretary. D. App. 45. Court of the Mobile Commissary Commando, 1, VII. Army Corps.