DUEL WITH SWORDS
Fight on Top Floor ot Auckland Building FOREIGNER INSULTS KING ENGLISHMAN’S CHALLENGE (By Telegraph— Press Association.! Auckland, To-day.
A duel with naked swords is reported to have been fought, in Auckland last Friday'night, “the victor in the contest was a former English army officer, Who, with his sword, nicked 'the upper arm of his opponent, Who thereupon withdrew.
The dispute which led to the duel arose in a hotel between the Englishman and a stranger, said to be a foreigner, who made a grossly insulting remark about King George. The Englishman told him he would not sully his hands by striking him and challenged him to a duel, which the foreigner readily accepted. A duelling ground -was found in a< room on the top floor of a city building, seconds were appointed, and coats and collars having been removed, the fight began. Duelling swords were used. They fought for .several minutes, but neither gained an advantage until the Englishman ran his sword through ■the fleshy part of his antagonist’s arm. Honour being satisfied, the contest so ended.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 July 1935, Page 6
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180DUEL WITH SWORDS Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 July 1935, Page 6
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