COMPULSORY DUELS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11657, 12 June 1912, Page 2

COMPULSORY DUELS.

M.P.S' ANGRY PROTEST AGAINST THE KAISER'S ORDER. The Kaiser's Cabinet order commanding a." Army officer to light a duel despite his religious convictions under penalty of dismissal from the Colors caused an uproarious scene in the Reichstag. ilorr Err'borger, during the debate on. the military estimates, assailed the order as an "insult to the German nation." These words had hardly fallen from the deputy's lips when General von Heoringon, the white-haired Prussian War Minister, own nephew fell fatally wounded in a military duel roeouiiy, rushed to the speakers platform in a state of high agitation. He srdd lie must protest in the must emphatic terms against the r.pprobriuni just heaped on the supreme, war lord. Men who refused on account, of reconvictions to light a duel were unworthv of bring officers. ' He saidthat Dr Sambeth. the medical reserve officer whoso case was under discussion, did not at ail fit in with the atmosphere of military caste. - General von Keoriugen't, languageraised- i.- storm of 'indignat:on r -in the ranks cdthe Catholic Centre Party and in the idberal. Radical, and Socialist benches. The. House rang for live minutes with a tumult of angry shouts and hisses, before which General von Hoeringen was iinaily compelled 10 retreat. Dr. Poasche.,' the .Nat-Kjuai-i.iberai Vioo-i'rosidciH of the Reichstag, cioelared that- the Minister could now" i.-e in no doubt how little Ids defence of duelling corresponded with German public sentiment.