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
Field Hospital No. 2 of the XII. Army Corps, posted at Sorinnes was,
on the evening of the following day, between 7 and 8 o'clock, fired
upon by armed inhabitants from the park of the castle. The shots came
from the thicket immediately behind the castle courtyard. The fire was
aimed at the _personnel_ of the hospital, who were engaged in cooking
in a large house next to the park. As I myself, with hospital inspector
Voigt, entered the park in order to see after the cooking, we were
fired at.
Signed: Dr. KAISER, Senior Staff-Surgeon and Surgeon-in-Chief.
App. 33.
REPORT of Senior Staff-Surgeon Esche, Field Hospital 7, No. 73, N.
Army Corps.
On August 24th, towards 6 p.m., a column on the march was at Biesme
fired upon by inhabitants from the houses of the village. A detachment
of some 50 men of Infantry Regiment No. 164, which was guarding 216
prisoners in the castle garden in which the Field Hospital No. 7
was posted, moved out in order to restore quiet, while for the time
being lightly wounded men undertook the guarding of the prisoners.
Sergeant Kortebein and two drivers of Field Hospital No. 7, Schmidt and
Dietrich, saw shots fired from two of the houses.
According to the statement of the lady occupying the castle of
Gougnies, in which the medical officers and officials of the field
hospital were quartered, the _Conseiller provinciel_ at Gougnies,
Adelin Piret, had distributed to the inhabitants the weapons stored up
at the Mairie. Shots were fired from the village at a column marching
through it.
Signed: ESCHE, Senior Staff-Surgeon and Surgeon-in-Chief.
App. 34.
REPORT of 1st Lieutenant Balterman, commanding Military Pack Column
No. 6, X. Army Corps, 1st Train Division of the X. Army Corps.
On August 23rd, 1914, at Le Roux, Military Park Column No. 6 of the
X. Army Corps was fired at several times from a house. The assailants
escaped. On August 24th the column was fired upon at Biesme from the
flanks and the rear. Moreover, a side street was closed against us
by some twelve armed civilians. These armed civilians were shot and
several houses burnt down.
On August 24th the column was exposed to a very hot fire at Lanesse and
Somzée. A number of civilians were shot and several houses burnt down.
Signed: BATTERMANN, 1st Lieutenant and Column Commander.
App. 35.
MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of Lieutenant Henry Müller attached to the
Telephone Section of the XII. Army Corps.
GUIGNICOURT, _October 9th, 1914_.
Present:
President of the Court, SCHWEINITZ.
Secretary, LIPS.
There appeared as witness Lieutenant of Reserve Müller, and was
examined as follows:
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