At 9 o'clock p.m. the General, the Chief of the General Staff, and I returned to Louvain by motor-car. The battle took place at Bueken, 7 km. north of Louvain. On returning to Louvain we already found in the villages situated between Bueken and Louvain regular troops (of the Landwehr) who declared that our men were being fired at in the surrounding villages. We saw ourselves how all the traffic was stopped in a village because firing from the houses had taken place. All troops warned the Commanding General from going into the town because street-fights were taking place there. But the Commanding General declared that he would not leave his Staff in the town if fighting were going on, and he wished to return to the Staff. We were therefore obliged to get out when we got into Louvain. The Commanding General, with the chauffeurs and we few officers, went through the dark town to the market-place at about 10 o'clock p.m. During this march through the town a flank fire was opened on us every time we turned a street corner. Suddenly, the Staff veterinary surgeon of the corps arrived and reported that the Staff of the General Commandant had been attacked, and that the horses were either shot or had stampeded. The men were firing on the houses. The baggage therefore was safe, only the horses were gone. We went first of all to the town hall, and there found a number of hostages who had been taken in the meantime. My brother, Lieutenant v. Klewitz, now told the hostages in the presence of the Commanding General that they would be shot if the firing in the town did not cease at once. The hostages then begged to be allowed to use their influence in the streets. Lieutenant v. Klewitz then passed through the town with the hostages, and the inhabitants were exhorted to be quiet. We then went to our Hôtel Métropole. When we arrived there we found in front of the house a civilian, shot. It appeared that this man had sat in the Hôtel Métropole, and when the hotel was searched he had been found in a room, armed, and had wounded two soldiers, whereupon the soldiers shot him in a hand-to-hand fight and threw him out of the window. Besides one civilian person, of whom we know nothing, there was no longer anyone in the hotel.