(Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100.
Present:
Lieutenant of Reserve BANDEL, as Officer of the Court.
Non-commissioned Officer HAUNSTEIN, as Military Clerk of the Court.
GUIGNICOURT, _January 9th, 1915_.
By order there appeared as witness Captain von Montbé, who, being
warned to speak the whole truth, made the following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Charles Sylvester Alban von Montbé. I am 31
years old; Protestant.
As to Case: It has not come to my knowledge that any cruelties have
been committed by our soldiers on the inhabitants of Dinant; neither
have the inhabitants of Dinant been ill-treated or mutilated or been
badly treated at all; on the other hand, various inhabitants of the
place who have treacherously fired from the houses, so far as one could
get hold of them, were shot.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: V. MONTBÉ.
Witness was hereupon sworn.
Signed: BANDEL, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: HAUNSTEIN, Non-commissioned Officer
and Military Clerk of the Court.