PROUVAIS, _February 24th, 1915_.
By order of Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 there appeared as witness
this day Captain von Lippe of the Light Munitions Columns, 2nd
Division, 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12, in order to be examined
on oath regarding the occurrences in Dinant. Captain von Lippe stated:
As to Person: My name is Fritz von Lippe. I am 40 years old;
Protestant; estate-tenant by calling, attached to the Light Munitions
Column of the 2nd Division, Field Artillery Regiment No. 12.
As to Case: On August 23rd, 1914, behind the firing position of the 2nd
Division, 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12, I saw the bodies of a
rifleman and a Jäger. One had his eyes gouged out, and the other lay
half burnt under a heap of straw with hands and feet tied together.
Captain von Lippe testified his statements on oath, after the
importance of the oath had been pointed out to him.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: FRITZ VON LIPPE.
Signed: HAASE, 1st Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.