EXTRACT from Report of the Staff, 64th Infantry Brigade.
The Infantry Regiment No. 178 had not only opposed to it a strong force
of the enemy, but was also being heavily fired on by francs-tireurs
from the houses of the village of Leffe. A company of the 2nd Battalion
as well as a detachment of the Machine-Gun Company, Infantry Regiment
No. 178, were, as the Brigade Staff itself saw, fired on in the same
way from all the houses as they were entering the village of Leffe.
This could only have come from the inhabitants; some of them were
seized with weapons in their hands and shot. Toward 1.45 in the
afternoon a detachment of heavy artillery opened fire on the houses of
Bouvignes which were occupied by the enemy, with obvious results. As
shots were being fired from the woods and cliffs north and south of
Leffe on our troops passing through the village street, the Kurhessian
Jäger Battalion No. 11 received the order to clear the woods. Here also
civilians, without any military badge or uniform, were seized with
weapons in their hands and shot.
64th Infantry Brigade.