2. Non-commissioned Officer Kielholz, 2nd Company, Infantry Regiment No. 73.
As to Person: My name is Paul. I am 23 years old; Protestant; bank employé at Husum.
As to Case: On the 7th August 1914 I was one of a field outpost, which was placed about 300 metres west of Louveigné on the road. Suddenly as it began to grow dusk we were fired on from the village, and shots were directed against us from trees and from a rather high-lying cornfield. We skirmished out and lay down in a field of roots, and some of us replied to the fire. We then noticed that a number of people in civilian clothing who had been lying in the cornfield were running away. We were under fire for about half an hour, and at least 100 shots were fired at us.
3. Corporal of Reserve Fruth, 9th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 73.
As to Person: My name is Friedrich. I am 26 years old; Protestant; hairdresser.
As to Case: On August 5th, 1914, I found myself near the campaign baggage of the company. In the afternoon we reached Esneux, where we halted in the village street. The inhabitants were very friendly to us, and the people came out of the houses and gave us food and cigarettes without taking payment.
Towards evening we left this place and marched in the direction of Liège. We then noticed that the people looked at us from the windows and laughed ironically. About a kilometre in rear of Esneux we had to halt. Suddenly fire was opened upon us from some ground near us on our left, whereupon we received the order to turn back. Up to the present only single shots had been fired at us, but as soon as we regained the village a hot fire was opened from the houses. Shots came from almost every house; it was impossible to select any in particular. From the sound of the shots one could recognise that the guns were of different patterns. Several of us were wounded, one horse was shot dead, another was wounded. We searched the houses and found guns of various kinds. I did not see any of military pattern.
4. Acting-Sergeant-Major Horn, 7th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 73.
As to Person: My name is Friedrich Horn. I am 28 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: On the 6th August this year I was in charge of the baggage of the 2nd Battalion of my regiment. When I arrived in the neighbourhood of Poulseur I sent forward three men of the cyclist company of the 10th Jäger Battalion, who had joined us as stragglers, as a cyclist patrol, towards the village ahead, in order to see if the battalion was already there. However, one man of the patrol soon returned with the news that he had lost both the others; they had apparently fallen, as the patrol had been fired at from houses in Poulseur. When I reached Poulseur with the baggage, I and my men also came under fire. I placed the two foremost waggons across the road for defence, and led my men forward. We also made preparations in a house for our own defence. Then things became quiet. After a short interval the firing broke out again, so that we were compelled also on our side to fire into the houses. The sound of the assailants' shots was altogether different from that from our rifles. There were no enemy troops in the place; it could therefore be only civilians who had fired. Several cavalry patrols also declared that they had been fired at by civilians.