As to Person: My name is Leon. I am 36 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: On August 22nd, 1914, I rode in company with Lieutenant
Feierabend, Dragoon Regiment No. 1, at the head of a troop of cavalry
consisting of some twenty-five Uhlans. Our orders were to reconnoitre
the bridge at Monceau sur Sambre. In the middle of the town of Monceau
sur Sambre, while we were both halted in the Rue Neuve, we were
suddenly assailed by a hot fire. Shots were fired at us from all the
windows of the houses and from cellar gratings. As our men were falling
around me I rode forward and reached a side street. One man had been
killed, four wounded, and six horses were dead; Lieutenant Feierabend
received a shot through the leg. I was unwounded, but my map, which I
held in my left hand, was pierced by two pellets. This is a convincing
proof of the fact that a sporting-gun was used to fire at me. I am
convinced that fire was opened upon us at a prearranged signal.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: VON GUAITA.
The witness was sworn.