THE TRENCHES, _January 12th, 1915_.
By Regimental Order, Chief Surgeon of the Reserve, Dr. Marx, Assistant
Surgeon of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Grenadier Regiment (Guards) No.
100, appears, and, being warned to speak the whole truth, makes the
following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Karl Theodor Hans Marx. I was born on April
3rd, 1878, in Döbeln (Saxony); Evangelical-Lutheran; Senior Surgeon of
the Reserve, 1st (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100.
As to Case: I also extended my medical activity during the whole of
the day to the wounded inhabitants of Dinant. In one case I treated a
young girl with a shot wound in the head, and allowed her a separate
room in the house where I had set up my place for dressing-station, so
that her parents could be with her. As towards the evening that part
of the town in which my hospital lay came under heavy artillery fire,
I had the girl carried to a safer part of the town. This was in the
street where the town gaol of Dinant is situated. The wounded girl,
in consequence of her severe injury, lay at the point of death. In
a column of inhabitants which was being sent across the Meuse was a
clergyman, whom I recognised as such by his clothes. I begged him to
take charge of her, and was witness how he gave her absolution. I was
present the whole day (August 23rd, 1914) in Dinant, and did not notice
any excesses on the part of the German soldiers.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Dr.med. HANS MARX.
The witness was then sworn.
Signed: V. HAUGK, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: HARTMANN, Non-commissioned Officer
and Military Clerk of the Court.