WOOD SOUTH-WEST OF LA VILLE AUX BOIS, _February 5th, 1915_.
_Deposition._
By order of the Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prince George" No. 108 there
appeared as witness Rifleman Körner. Warned to speak the whole truth,
he made the following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Artur Hugo Körner. I am 21 years old; of the
Evangelical-Lutheran faith; glass-cutter by trade; now rifleman, 11th
Company, Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prince George" No. 108.
As to Case: I belonged to a patrol of twelve men led by Lieutenant
Gauser and Berger with orders to arrest civilians in Dinant who
might take up arms against the Germans. From a building in course of
erection we observed that civilians were firing on us from a house. We
surrounded the house, forced an entrance, and arrested about six male
civilians. All had firearms, but no military badge or uniform. Two of
them were young people about eighteen years old, another an older man
with white hair. I know nothing of cruelties having been perpetrated by
German soldiers on the inhabitants.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: KÖRNER.
The witness was duly sworn.
Signed: LOSSOW, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: SCHUBERT, Acting-Sergeant-Major
and Clerk of the Military Court.