DUELLING IN GERMANY
PROHIBITING REGULATION. . . . . > Berlin, April 29. The special correspondent of / th® Times at Berlin states that the German Surgery Society has protested against the inclusion of a clause in the penal code prohibiting students from . duelling on the following grounds;—■ (1) The sword is not a lethal weapon if proper bandages are used and due precautions are taken; (2) duelling is really a fighting sport, not a fight; (3) sword wounds are far more harmless than blows with the fist, as boxing deaths prove, whereas nearly all duelling deaths are due to indirect causes like blood poisoning. Consequently it is contended that the Legislature would display partiality in forbidding duelling unices it also prohibited the employment of the dangerous gloved fist. The society adds: "Boxing panders to degraded purposes liko sensationalism and profit-making, whereas duelling only cultivates coiirage*”
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1930, Page 11
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