HOW DUELS ARE CONDUCTED IN PARIS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 23, 25 July 1901, Page 4

HOW DUELS ARE CONDUCTED IN PARIS.

SPECTATOEB AND SECONDS JOIN I\ DISPUTE.

A despatch from Paris on June 9 says : —

The duel which was begun yesterday m the Pare des Princes between Max Reg'.s (the Anti-Semifee Mayor of Algiers) and M. Laberdesque, an Algerian journalist, and which was adjourned after nineteen rounds were fought, was resumed this morning. M. Regis was seriously wounded in the forearm, a copious flow of blood resulting, and the duel was therefore stopped The duel lasted only a few seconds today. M. Laberdesque, who is a fine swordsman, yesterday confined himself to the defensive, but this morning, after half a dozen passes, he lunged and pinked M. Regis in the right forearm. The latter wished to contiuue the duel, but the seconds refused to let the fight continue. A quarrel then broke out among the seconds and several spectators, who included the well-known tencers MM. Thomeguex and Suitzbochcr, and M. Malato.

Several challenges were exchanged, and finally friends succeeded in leading away M. Regis, who was furious over the second's decision. Before he left the ground M. Regis shouted to M. Laberdesque : —

" I fought you to show I was no' afraid of your sword. You are never ■ theless an assassin."

M. Laberdesque promptly retorted, asking the seconds to arrange another duel.

Two other duels are also promised in connection with the affair, between M. Malato and a journalist named Leroy, and between M. Laberdesque's secretary, M. Brescher, and another journa» list, named Gaucher.

M. Regis wanted to fight M. Laberdesque with fists when the duel was stopped, but the seconds intervened.

A dispute between the seconds then arose over the second's working ot the official account ot the duel. Cards were exchanged, but these duels were averted by explanations by M. Thomeguex as a duelling authority.

M. Regis, in addition to fighting M. Laberdesque, has to fight a duel with M. Gerault Richard, writer on the Petite Republic.

A Temps reporter, describing the final scenes, says it was lucky the duel did not last another half-hour, or halt the spectators would have challenged the other half and the duel would have degenerated into a pitched battle.