Read over, approved, signed. Signed: FRITZ MARKS. 3. Reservist Heinrich Hartmann. As to Person: My name is Heinrich Hartmann. I am 24 years old; Protestant; Reservist in the 2nd Company, Infantry Regiment No. 165. As to Case: I saw lying on the ground the Einjähriger of the 5th Company, with his eyes gouged out. Our company leader, Hauptmann Burkholz, ordered us to search the houses in the place. Inside the house, by the garden fence of which the Einjähriger was found, we came across a big strong man of middle age, who was lying on his bed and pretending to be asleep. We brought him before the officer, who cross-examined him. The man was then shot by a musketeer of the 4th Company. On the advance towards Liège we came across a German infantry-man who had been thrust into a swampy pool with his head and half his body under water; the man was dead. Read over, approved, signed. Signed: HEINRICH HARTMANN. The witnesses were thereupon sworn. Proceedings end. Signed: KEIL. Signed: FAHLBERG. App. 56. MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of Musketeer Paul Blankenburg, Infantry Regiment No. 165. BLANKENBURG (HARTZ), _November 14th, 1914_. Herzogliches Amtsgericht. Present: Oberamtsgerichter Dr. SCHILLING, Judge. Gerichtsobersecretär HORNIG, Secretary. There appears as witness Musketeer Paul Blankenburg, 7th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 165, at the present time in the Reserve Hospital of this place. The witness, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, was examined as follows: As to Person: My name is Paul Blankenburg. I was born in Magdeburg, September 4th, 1893; Protestant. As to Case: The following statement, which he had made on October 31st of this year before 1st Lieutenant Reyner in this place, was read over to the witness: "We were on the march in close column, and in the course of it passed through a Belgian village, lying west of Herve. In the village German wounded were lying, and indeed I recognised some Jäger troops from Jäger Battalion No. 4. The column in marching through suddenly came under fire from the houses, and the order was therefore given to remove all the civilians from the houses, and to get them together into one place. While this was going on I noticed that some girls of eight or ten years of age, armed with sharp instruments, were busying themselves with the German wounded. I subsequently ascertained that, from the most severely wounded, the lobes and the upper parts of their ears had been cut off. On continuing our march, an ambulance soldier, belonging, as far as I remember, to the 27th Regiment, was shot dead from a house by Belgian civilians while he was occupied in a school-yard in rendering assistance to a wounded man."