Present:
President of the Court, SCHWEINITZ.
Secretary, LIPS.
NEUFCHÂTEL, _February 18th, 1915_.
In the inquiry concerning the events in Dinant there appeared as
witness the Divisional Chaplain, Dr. Kaiser, who stated:
As to Person: My name is Dr. Paul Kaiser. I am 52 years old; Roman
Catholic Divisional Chaplain of the 32nd Infantry Division.
As to Case: I lay in Leffe from the evening of the 23rd until the
morning of the 25th August. On the afternoon of the 24th August, a
Captain of my acquaintance invited me to eat a plate of soup with him.
This took place in a courtyard where, besides ourselves, were the
Captain's servant, who was cooking the soup there, and two or three
units who were pottering about round a freight-automobile. All at once
some shots were heard and missiles flew quite close over us. Everyone
was naturally excited. In the direction from which the shots presumably
came, stood a fairly new brick-built house, distant about 100 metres.
Between the first floor and the attic was a white ledge in which one
could see several holes, and from which arose smoke, evidently from a
shot which had just been discharged. As I learned, the house was then
searched. Shortly afterwards, a whole procession of civilians, men and
women, were led off by us; these persons, as I was told, had all been
arrested in the house. They were then handed over to the Cadet School,
which was used as a prison.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Dr. KAISER.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: SCHWEINITZ. Signed: LIPS.