The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
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The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915
Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities; World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
On August 23rd, when the 3rd Battalion had withdrawn from Les Bulles,
I led the 12th Company to Frenois. We halted in the village street to
wait for the other companies, which I fetched up by orders of Major
Schwerk, as Adjutant-Lieutenant Rocholl had been severely wounded. In
the meantime, the company was suddenly and unexpectedly assailed by
shots fired from the windows by inhabitants.
Further, as I was riding along through the village, one of the
inhabitants called me to him, but I rode on at a gallop, and was fired
at from behind.
Signed: V. POSER.
App. 29.
REPORT of Field Artillery Regiment No. 21 (12th Field Artillery
Brigade).
NAUROY, _October 15th, 1914_.
Captain Blumenthal, Commander of the Light Munitions Column (2nd
Division), reports:
On August 24th, during the advance, the column halted at Jamoigne for a
considerable time, to water the horses. A number of the inhabitants who
still remained in the village were standing in front of the doors and
behaved in a friendly manner. Water, coffee, and tobacco were offered
to some of the officers and men. While the watering of the horses was
going on, two shots came from a house in front of which a short time
previously an elderly man and a woman had been sitting. The shots were
apparently fired at the two officers who were standing close to the
house, Lieutenants Kloass and Luozny. These two shots gave the signal
for a general fusillade from the skylights and windows of the houses.
While the pioneers, who had been attached on the march for escort,
forced their way into the houses, the column was pushed forward in
order to make room in the village, which had been at once set on fire,
for the other column marching behind it. One man of the column and two
horses were wounded.
Signed: WARNEKE.
App. 30.
REPORT of Medical Corps Company No. 1, VI. Army Corps (11th Infantry
Division).
BIVOUAC AT LANÇON, _September 24th, 1914_.
On August 24th, during the advance of the Army Corps through Jamoigne,
the Medical Corps Company received the order to take charge of the
German and French wounded, who had been conveyed into a hospital and
a convent. On entering the hospital the senior Surgeon and Commander
were received by a Belgian civilian doctor. He declared that he had
only been able to afford the wounded poor attention, because he lacked
medical _personnel_, bandages, and provisions. Questions addressed
to the Germans in hospital revealed the fact that the wounded had not
been attended to by the local doctor for three days. When our senior
Surgeon remarked that in practice splints ought to have been used for
the wound of one of the patients, the doctor replied that he possessed
no material of this kind. The non-commissioned officer accompanying the
senior Surgeon opened a wardrobe and found splints inside.
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