CHALLENGE TO ITALIAN.
OFFER TO FIGHT DUEL. United Press Assn.—i>y Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ROME, July 12. Captain Fanelli, wno recently challenged Major C. R. Attlee (de-puty-leader of the Labour Party) to a duel, objecting to remarks of his on the Abyssinian dispute, has received from Edward Dickinson, of London, a challenge to a duel with Dickinson, Mho M'ishes to take Major Attlee’s place. In a letter to Fanelli, Dickinson says: “As a duel is evidently your idea, of satisfaction, 1 trust vou will allow an Englishman jealous of his country's history and traditions to take up the challenge. I trust you Mill spec lily reply 7 , enabling suitable arrangements to be made.” Fanelli is at present out of Rome. His friends say 7 he is not likely to accept, as his quarrel is with Attlee. A FIRE-EATER. LONDON, July 12. Dickinson is a well-built sixfooter, living at Highbury. Interviewed, he said: “If this fire-eating felloM wants to eat fire, I will give it to him to eat. He can have his choice of weapons.”
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13000, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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173CHALLENGE TO ITALIAN. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13000, 13 July 1935, Page 5
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