On August 26th, at about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, we were to be sent off by rail. The signal for starting had already been given when the train was heavily fired at from the houses near the station. One could hear the rattling of the bullets. Everybody who could do so had to load. Not till half an hour later were we able to proceed, the firing lasted so long. The train was only a hospital train, and was marked as such with the red cross.
Signed: Dr. VAN GEMBER. Signed: LEMPFRID.
Present: President, Dr. CZARNIKOW. Secretary, THIELE.
ALLEMANT IN FRANCE, _December 18th, 1914_.
There appeared as witness Lieutenant Brandt of the Reserve, Infantry Regiment von Alvensleben (6th Brandenburg) No. 52, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, was examined as follows:
As to Person: My name is Kurt Brandt, aged 32; Protestant; book-keeper in the printing works of J. Schmidt at Markneukirchen, Saxony.
As to Case: I can only repeat the statements which I made in my report to my regiment on September 27th.
The report was then read to the witness, and he then declared the following: The report is the one just mentioned by me. I repeat its contents. The letter of the Belgian Government mentioned therein and the list of members of the Garde Civique found, I handed to the regiment on the following day. Lieutenant Dunkel of the Reserve will confirm the correctness of my statements; he was then also at Louvain, and led a train of the Army Telegraph Section 1.
During the firing, field gendarmes handed over to me about five civilians who bore no badge or uniform. The gendarmes reported that they had taken the persons with arms in their hands, and they also produced the arms. I did not examine the prisoners, but had them taken to the Commandant.
The owner of the hotel mentioned by me, who appeared in the morning from within the hotel when it was already quite burned down, was handed over by me to the General Staff Officer of the IX. Reserve Army Corps, a captain, whose name I do not know. It was the same officer who had given me instructions to destroy the two hotels. The civilian was examined by the officer and shot about half an hour later. At about the same time two priests were shot; when I saw them, they had already been apprehended. On inquiry, an orderly officer of the Commander General told me that they had distributed ammunition among the civilians.