OFFICER MAY USE SWORD
IF INSULTED BY CIVILIAN LONDON, Nov. 14. The Budapest correspondent of the Daily Mail saves that the paragraph in Hun.aiinn military law which permits in old er to use his sword against a •ivilian if he insults him, was vigorously iinileiimcd in the Parliamentary debate in lhe new military penal code. "It is a relic of the middle ages,” defined I lie Democrat leader, Dr. Rassay, mt the Minister for Defence, Captain Oomhos, said that he would rather resign than see the paragraph deleted. “Do you think it heroic to strike down in unarmed .opponent,” was Dr, Rassny’s retort.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17116, 23 November 1929, Page 18
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103OFFICER MAY USE SWORD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17116, 23 November 1929, Page 18
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