"In the early days of August, it may have been the middle of the month, I was on officer-patrol duty near the Belgian frontier, with orders to occupy a bridge. A brief engagement took place, and after an hour and a half the patrol retired. I, with some fusiliers, received some special orders, and for that reason left the patrol. "During our retirement over a meadow we noticed in a street-trench, near a group of houses, several civilians who remained there. When we approached nearer, we saw lying in the trench a German soldier whose eyes had both been cut out. Thereupon we attacked the civilians, who ran off into the adjacent houses, and from these opened fire upon us. What became of the cruelly treated soldier I cannot say." The witness thereupon declared: This statement is correct. I adopt it also as my own statement to-day, and make the following addition to it. I did not see the three or four civilians (who, in fear of us, ran away from the wounded German soldier into the adjacent houses) put out the eyes of the soldier. That these men, however, were guilty is clear from the fact that our wounded German comrade implored us, "Take me with you; they have just put out my eyes." The attention of the witness was then called to the importance of the oath, and he accordingly gave his sworn testimony. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: RICHARD WEISE. Signed: Dr. SCHILLING. Signed: R. HORNIG. App. 55. MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of the Reservists, Gustav Voigt, Fritz Marks, and Heinrich Hartmann, Infantry Regiment No. 165. Proceedings at Quedlinburg, in the Reserve Hospital. Present: President of the Court, KEIL. Secretary, FAHLBERG. SCHILLING, _November 11th, 1914_. In the Reserve Hospital at Schilling, to which the above-mentioned Court officials had proceeded, the following examinations took place after the witnesses had been individually warned as to the importance of the oath: 1. Reservist Gustav Voigt. As to Person: My name is Gustav Voigt. I am 24 years old; Protestant; Reservist of the 6th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 165.