Further, when the baggage of Regiment No. 74 withdrew on the following day through Poulseur from the direction of Liège, we were again fired upon.
STATEMENT of Captain Haupt, Commander of the Heavy Commissariat Column No. 2, X. Army Corps.
At midday on August 14th, at Louveigné, an artillery munitions column marching behind the commissariat column was fired on by civilians. The number of the column I cannot now remember.
On August 28th, at Gerpinnes, Driver Pook, who was looking for food in an abandoned house, was fired at from a neighbouring house, and wounded slightly in the hand. The search among the neighbouring houses for the assailant was unsuccessful.
Signed: HAUPT, Captain and Column Commander.
MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of Sergeant-Major Mävers, Non-commissioned Officer Kielholz, Corporal Fruth, Lieutenant Schliep, Acting-Sergeant-Major Horn, and Corporal Niebeln, all of Infantry Regiment No. 73.
Present: President of the Court, FUHSE. Secretary, HENSEN.
There appeared as witnesses the under-mentioned persons, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to them, made the following statement:
1. Sergeant-Major Mävers, 4th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 73.
As to Person: My name is Wilhelm Mävers. I am 27 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: On the afternoon of August 7th, 1914, somewhere between 6 and 7 o'clock, our company had to secure the eastern exits of Louveigné. We took up a position before a farm at the exit of the village. Suddenly--it was still quite light--a shot was fired near us; the bullet whistled close past my ear. The shot was evidently the sign for a general firing upon the company and on the baggage which remained behind us in the village, for there now commenced a violent fire from the houses, especially from the roofs and upper storeys. The company speedily took up a position on the slope of a garden near the farm where we were posted. While this was going on, I looked round and noticed that several shots were fired from the first storey of a corner house; one saw the smoke rise up after the shot was fired. I am quite certain that I saw that those who fired wore civilian clothes. The company replied to the firing for about 1/4 hour, and directed their fire against a house near the above-mentioned farm. In our neighbourhood the fire slackened, while in the village shooting still continued.