HUNGARIAN DUELLISTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1645, 11 January 1913, Page 5

HUNGARIAN DUELLISTS.

' POLITICIANS MEET WITH SABRES. i|f Tolcer&pn-Press AsßociaUon-Ooi>yrlrtl Vienna, January 9. Count Tisza; President of the Hungarian Chamber, who Inst week fought'a duel with sabres with.Count Karolyi, both combatariW being slightly wounded, has had another encounter, his opponent on this occasion' bomg Count .Szechenj-i, another well-known'politician. Sabres were again used by tho duellists, and tho duel terminated on Count Szecbenyl being wounded. •."■ -A "STRONG/MAN." (.: "Count Tisza, the Speaker, of the Hungarian Chamber, has mado a parliamentary, or rather an unparliamentary record," remarked the "Daily News?' "By trampling upon every rule of procedure, of which ho is the official guardian, and by ejecting dissentient members, he hiisi* Forced through tho Chamber thrco Bills. They have been each carried through all stages, first, second, and third reading, with a single nod of his head. ' . "Count TiszaCan boast that ho has broken'down eleven months' obstruction in as many minutes; only he did this sort of tiling once before, six years, ago, and tho result was a crisis which lasted thrco years. The last, however, was a smaller affair, because the Opposition then Blood for nothing higher than Count Tisza himself represented. But on this occasion tho moral superiority rests with tho Opposition. They stand for a democratic suffrage j Count Tisza" stands for as worthloss an oligarchy as over, plagued a State! A coup d'etat which is inspired by a high ideal must succeed; but a coup d'etat j which aims at preserving a decrepit and corrupt Government must fail. Count Tisza has swept obstruction out "of the way. Will its place bo taken by revolntionP That is the qiiestion'tho blind violence of this 'strong man' provokes. "Count Tisza lias been shot at by ' an angry member of the Chamber, who also shot himself. And inspired by this exnmpie, n student shot at M. do Cuvnj, the Ban and High Commissioner of CroatinSlnvonin, whose arbitrary policy is embittering tho Slavs," v