FRENCH SOLDIERS' "DUEL."
ENEMY .SETTLES A QUARREL.
In a front-line trench the other dav two >ouiig French non-commissioned officer-, of good b.rth quarrelled, before witness Under ordinary circumstance* thev would have been compelled by the social' usua-e* of their class to fight.a duel. but. realism* that their lives did not belong to them" they deeded to attack the enemy instead' on the understanding that, as soon a* one °l £ duelllst ? ' w "as mounded, the other should be considered as having received satisfaction. Th e compact was carried out to the letter.
The two Frenchmen, each armed with two bombs, jumped on to the parapet and suddenly opened on the German trench which was quite close. The enemy, of course, retaliated, and one of the two was slightly wounded in the leg, whereupon both he and his adversary dropped back into the trench again and shook hand«
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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