Present:
President of the Court, NAUMANN.
Secretary to the Court, SCHWARZBACH.
LA MALMAISON, _December 9th, 1914_.
In the investigation of the violation of the international law
committed against the German troops, there appeared as witness Corporal
of the Reserve Einax, 11th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 182, who,
after reference to the significance of the oath, was examined as
follows:
My name is Karl Hermann Einax. I am 28 years old; Protestant; cooper
by trade; corporal since November 21st, 1914. On Sunday, August 23rd,
1914, during the second hour of the afternoon, as we advanced into
Dinant, we were fired on. It turned out that the fire came from the
other bank of the Meuse. We forced our way into the houses and searched
them. I saw how an elderly man with grey bristly hair stepped out of
a house, into which our comrades had forced an entrance, and fired at
us. Major Lommatsch, who was severely wounded, died in the afternoon in
consequence of the wound.
On interrogation:
I then plainly saw that eight gun-barrels projected from the attic
windows of a house in the main street and were directed at us. From the
tower of the church and from cellars we were also fired on. All this
was done by the inhabitants only.
I remember distinctly that eight men were brought out of a house from
which there had been firing, amongst them the pastor with a Red Cross
band on his arm.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: KARL HERMANN EINAX.
Witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: NAUMANN.
Signed: SCHWARZBACH.