Court of the Government-General at Brussels.
Present:
Dr. IVERS, Judge of Military Law.
Secretary, RAMBEAU.
LOUVAIN, _September 17th, 1914_.
Station Buildings.
Landsturm-soldier Wilhelm Krebbers, 1st Company, 2nd Mobile Landsturm
Infantry Battalion Neuss, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Wilhelm Krebbers, born in Crefeld, October
10th, 1873; Catholic.
As to Case: I can testify with certainty that the German officers and
we German soldiers only fired on the houses after the inhabitants had
previously made a murderous attack upon us Germans by firing many shots
and whole volleys from the windows and especially the roofs of all
houses near the station.
I was baggage leader. After the firing was finished, my baggage-cart
and horses had disappeared. It was not until about 12.30 at night that
I met in the Rue de la Station two soldiers of a strange regiment with
my cart and my horses. I got on the cart and drove to the station. When
I passed the Hôtel "Maria Theresa" several volleys were fired from the
windows and the roof upon my cart. The horses bolted and only stopped
behind the station at a wall.
The statement was read over to the witness, and he was admonished
to speak only the truth, since he would have to swear to it. He then
declared:
I have spoken the perfect truth, and can swear to it with a clear
conscience.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: WILH. KREBBERS.
The witness was then sworn.
Signed: IVERS. Signed: RAMBEAU.