A Chinaman has just been killed in a house at Bangkok., as the result of a duel with another Chinaman. The method they adopted In fighting is of some interest. They fought with the two forefingers of each hand, stabbing each other with these in the region of the spleen and at the same level on the other side of the body. The men who go in for this kind of contest practice every morning, stabbing bags of rice or paddy with these fingers till they can use them like $ jjiece of iroa. —"Times," Bangkok,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 230, 26 September 1906, Page 3
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