Duelling with Cards
Pistols have given way to cards in the settlement of ‘'affairs of honour” in Czecho-Slovakia, judging by the • method adopted by a business man at Bruenn, near Prague, to avenge an in-
An engineer in the town is said to have given offence to the business man, who challenged him to a duel. “Why not settle the affair at cards?” another man suggested. The men agreed, and sat down at the card-table to play for n stake of £l5OO. The business man won.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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86Duelling with Cards Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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