“I myself know,” declares a Belgian witness,[205] “that the Germans fired on one another on August 25th. On that day, at about 8.0 p.m., I was in the _Rue de Bruxelles_ at Louvain. I was hidden in a house. There was one party of German soldiers at one end of the street firing on another party at the other end. I could see that this happened myself. On the next day I spoke to a German soldier called Hermann Otto--he was a private in a Bavarian regiment. He told me that he himself was in the _Rue de Bruxelles_ the evening before, and that the two parties firing on one another were Bavarians and Poles, he being among the Bavarians....” The Poles openly blamed the Bavarians for the error. A wounded Polish Catholic, who was brought in during the night to the Dominican Monastery in the _Rue Juste-Lipse_, told the monks that “he had been wounded by a German bullet in an exchange of shots between two groups of German soldiers.”[206] On the Thursday following, a wounded Polish soldier was lying in the hospital of the Sisters of Mary at Wesemael, and, seeing German troops patrolling the road between Wesemael and Louvain, exclaimed to one of the nuns: “These drunken pigs fired on us.”[207] The casualties inflicted by the Germans on each other do not, however, appear to have been heavy. One German witness[208] saw “two dead transport horses and several dead soldiers” lying in the _Place du Peuple_. Another[209] saw a soldier lying near the _Juste-Lipse Monument_ who had been killed by a shot through the mouth. But most express astonishment at the lightness of the losses caused by so heavy a fire. “It is really a miracle,” said a German military doctor to a Belgian Professor in the course of the night,[210] “that not one soldier has been wounded by this violent fusillade.”--“A murderous fire,” states the surgeon of the Second Neuss Landsturm Battalion,[211] “was directed against us from _Rue de la Station_, _No. 120_. The fact that we or some of us were not killed I can merely explain by the fact that we were going along the same side of the street from which the shots were fired, and that it was night.”--“A tremendous fire,” states Major von Manteuffel, the Etappen-Kommandant,[212] “was opened from the houses surrounding the _Grand’ Place_, which was now filled with artillery (one battery), and with transport columns, motor-lorries and tanks of benzine.... I believe there were three men wounded, chiefly in the legs.” General von Boehn, commanding the Ninth Reserve Army Corps, estimates[213] that the total loss, in killed, wounded, and missing, of his General Command Staff, which was stationed in the _Place du Peuple_, “amounts to 5 officers, 2 officials, 23 men, and 95 horses.”--“I note that the inhabitants fired far too high,” states a N.C.O. of the Landsturm Company drawn up in the _Station Square_.[214] “That was our good luck, because otherwise, considering the fearful fire which was directed against us from all the houses in the _Station