ENGLISHMAN IN A DUEL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2712, 27 April 1914, Page 8

ENGLISHMAN IN A DUEL.

li is seldom that Englishmen engage in duels nowadays —at any rate, in their own country. Occasionally they get embroiled abroad, and a meeting re>nlts. Such an encounter look place recently in Germany, .Mr Denis Godfrey Isaacs, son of .Mr Godlrey Isaacs, and a nephew oi the Lord Child Jusiice. exacting salistaction iron) a bullying German for an insult. Although lie i.s not yet eighteen. Mr Isaacs is a magnificent athlete, Oft. in height. Gist, in weight, good t running. Rugby football, swimming, boxing. golf, and fencing. I‘or three months lie studied teiieing under a tamoils Italian master.

“I was walking in the town of Freiburg about a month ago.” he explained, ■‘when a German humped into me. 1 took no notice beyond giving him a contemptuous glance, and was passing along when he called out: A foul Englishman,’ in English, As lie would not apologise. I struck him across the face with mv glove.

“Four days later wo mot in the country outside Freiburg. "Wo, fought with foils, and the duel lasted about

a quarter of an hour. My opponent was fencing in the French style, but 1 wan trained in the Italian school,_ and my methods puzzled him. T was slightly injured and my opponent seriously injured. A doctor attended to him, and in a few days he recovered. He is now quite- well, and lias sailed for America.” Mr Tsaacs admitted that if he went hack to Germany the authorities would probably take action. “But,” he added. “I am not going back for a short time. I shall go up to Balliol, Oxford.”