FATAL GERMAN DUEL.
THE SURVIVOR CASHIERED. IMPRISONED IN A FORTRESS. (Received 8-50 a.m.) BERLIN, March 22. A court-martial at iietz sentenced Lieutenant yon l_avalette St. George to 2$ years' confinement in a fortress and j dismissal from the army for killing Lieutenant Haage in a duel in February. The Court was of opinion that the defendant caused the duel by grievously insulting Lieutenant Haage's family honour. Genera] yon Fallcenheyn, the Prussian "War Minister, recently strongly defended duelling among officers. He was replying in Parliament to an interpellation regarding the fatal duel at Metz in February, when Lieutenant Haago was killed. He said that duelling was necessary for the sake of the maintenance of ■military caste, and that bis effort- to dimmish duelling in the army were not directed against the duel, but towards the restrict-on of unnecessary duelling in trivial matters. Every officer must defend ttis own honour. It is interesting to note that duelling is decreasing in Germany. In 1913 only twelve meetingtook place.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 70, 23 March 1914, Page 5
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