A NOTABLE DUEL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVIII, Issue 11349, 17 August 1897, Page 5

A NOTABLE DUEL.

THE PRINCE OE ORLEANS SEVERELY WO UNDER'. [Pee Pebss Association.} ROME, August 14. General Albertoni has yielded pre-i cedence to the Comte de Turin, and a duel between the latter and Prince Henry of Orleans, which arose out op charges of cowardice against th« Italian troops in Abyssinia will 1)9 fought to-morrow, swords being tha weapons chosen. August. 15, Prince Henry of Orleans wag wounded slightly in the breast, but' seriously in the abdomen, in the duel with the Comte de Turin. The latter only received a slight wound in tha right hand. August 16. Further details of the duel between Prince Henry of Orleans and the Comte de Turin show that it was fought in the Bois Vaucresson, at Sfc Cloud, and was a sharp, determined encounter lasting twenty-sis In the first assault Prince Henry was saved from a stab by his upper trousers button, in the fifth he received a wound in the right side of tha lower part of the abdomen. His eecond thereupon stopped the duel. The doctors state that if the wound had penetrated half a centimetre further it would have pierced the intestines. When the wound had been dressed. Prince Henry resumed the contest and vigorously assumed the offensive until he was touched in the right breast by his opponent’s sword. In the second round, which was fought at close quarters, the seconds intervened. In the third round the Comte de Turin received a cut on ■ the back of the hand. In the fourth round Prince Henry’s sword bent against the Comte de Turin’s hands, and the latter agreed to a suspension of hostilities. Immediately afterwards he started on Me return to Italy. Prince Henry of Orleans afterward* walked to a carriage; in which he wag conveyed to the residence of the Duo De Chartres. No important organ was touched by the wound, and the Prince is doing well. The result of the duel was received with much delight in Italy. The Emperor of Germany sent congratulations to the Comte de Turin.