A FATAL DUEL.
JAPANESE QUARREL OVER AUSTRALIAN LADY.
PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT Received 12,42 a m., August 22,
Brisbane, August 22.
A telegram from Shanghai gives some particulars of the duel aboard the cruiser off Suigon. Commander Ishikawa received twenty wounds, and was taken to the hospital, where he died. Kowai, the chief engineer, refused to commit harikare, alleging that his honor was involved, and he is now awaiting court martial.
Brisbane, August 22. Ishikawa was decorated by tho Emperor for service during the late war. The quarrel is said to have been over an Australian lady moving in fashionable oltoles.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1841, 23 August 1906, Page 2
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