App. 17. REPORT of Captain and Detachment Commander, 4th Infantry Munitions Column, and MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of Acting-Sergeant-Major Kern, 3rd Infantry Munitions Column. SIFFONE, _October 2nd, 1914_. _Report._ On the 22nd of August 1914, at midday, I arrived at the northern entrance of Marche with the 4th Infantry Munitions Column, which I commanded, and received orders to pass through the village to the southern exit. I rode with some mounted men through the place, the principal buildings of which had already been arranged and taken over as hospitals. There was also here some of our infantry. Several inhabitants, amongst them a priest, were standing in the street, apparently inoffensive. As I returned through the village, somebody levelled a gun at me from the window on the first storey of a house in the neighbouring street. My assailant was, however, prevented from carrying out his purpose, thanks to the watchfulness of an infantry sentry, who anticipated the treacherous villager and frustrated his purpose by a shot from his own rifle. Hereupon a lively fusillade developed from all the houses, in which the village priest took part. Signed: MICHAHELLES, Captain and Detachment Commander. SIFFONE, _October 5th, 1914_. Present: President of the Court, SCHWEINITZ. Secretary, LIPS. There appeared as witness Acting-Sergeant-Major Kern, who made the following statement: As to Person: My name is Theodor Kern. I am 37 years old; Catholic; formerly mason; later frontier guard; at present Acting-Sergeant-Major of Landwehr in the 3rd Infantry Munitions Column. As to Case: On August 22nd, 1914, about 2.30 p.m., I rode back through Marche, after I had previously ridden into the place to arrange for quarters. In front of me rode Captain Michahelles. As we passed a cross-road the Captain began to trot. At the same moment I saw at a first-storey window of a house in this cross-street a civilian, who was aiming with a gun at the soldiers, and in my judgment more especially at the Captain. Almost at the same instant came the crack of an infantryman's rifle, who fired up at the civilian. On August 23rd, 1914, we were at Sorrinnes. During the day one noticed no signs of hostility among the inhabitants, but at 9 o'clock, when it had become dark, we were fired at from various houses. From one house Lieutenant Knauer received a shot in the abdomen, from which after some days he died. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: THEODOR KERN. The witness was sworn. Signed: SCHWEINITZ. Signed: LIPS. App. 18. REPORT of the Infantry Regiment von Winterfeldt (2nd Upper Silesian) No. 23 (24th Infantry Brigade). _October 4th, 1914._