EAGER TO FIGHT
AUSTRIAN SEEKS DUEL
LONDON, 3rd September. Count Czernin, the Austrian whose face was slapped by an English actor, Captain Charles Leven Lincoln, is now itching to fight a duel with his assailant. He has announced that he will be in Paris, prepared to do battle with fists or otherwise. : "Otherwise" might be wiser, as Lincoln is an ex-flying officer, and an amateur boxer, i■ ' " • . . "I certainly shan't seek out jDount Czernin," he says, "but if ke makes any attempt to molest me he will get-.what he is looking for." When the Count prosecuted Lincoln in an Austrian Court, the Judge sympathised with the Englishman, Who had merely punished Czernin for writing to Miss Zimmermann, his fiancee. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 8
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119EAGER TO FIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 8
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