DUEL NEAR BERLIN.
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.
It has become known that Herr Joachim von Bethmann-Hollweg, of Runowo, cousin of the Chancellor, fought a duel in the Grunewald forest, outside Berlin, with the owner of a neighbouring estate, Count Heinrich von der Goltz. The grounds for the combat are not stated, but they must have been of an unusually grave nature, as the conditions approved by the court of honour were an exchange of shots till one of the parties were incapacitated. A curious accident brought the duel, nevertheless, to a bloodless conclusion. At the second shot a bullet from Herr Bethmann-Hollwegjs pistol ricochetted off a tree and struck his adversary in the abdomen. Count von der Goltz, who is 55 years of age, though not wounded, was so severely shaken by the impact that the seconds decided that he was incapacitated under the conditions agreed upon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14525, 12 November 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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146DUEL NEAR BERLIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14525, 12 November 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)
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