EXTRACT from Report of Infantry Regiment No. 178.
_August 23rd, 1914._
When the leading company (9th Company) of Infantry Regiment No. 178
had almost reached the Meuse in its march through Leffe it received a
brisk fire from the front and on the right and left flanks, chiefly
from the houses. The 9th Company thereupon received orders to clear the
village. The battalion had a severe struggle and suffered considerable
losses, as it was under a violent infantry and machine-gun fire from
the opposite bank of the Meuse, and, above all, because the battalion
was being fired on by the inhabitants from practically all the houses.
Various civilians who had fired at our troops were shot. At 8.30 about
twenty inhabitants were still firing at us to the south of the barracks
of the 13th Belgian Infantry Regiment. They were fetched out and shot.