GERMAN DUELS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 March 1910, Page 3

GERMAN DUELS.

FISTS v. SWORDS

THE OFFICER AND THE

STL DENT,

[BY BLECTRIO TBLEGRAPn--COPYRIGHT.J

[PKR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received This Day, 8.45 a.m.) BERLIN, March 13. Payne, an English student at the University of Freiberg, in Saxony, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment and fined 850 marks, for having fought a duel and resisted arrest. The affair originated over a quarrel in a cafe with a lieutenant in the German army, who, following the custom followed, with comparative immunity by other German officers in days bygone, drew his sword upon him. The Englishman rushed to close quarters, and struck the astonished lieutenant. A duel followed, and a proof of the thoroughness of the new methods introduced in the German Army by the Kaiser was afforded by the cashiering of the lieutenant when his case was tried by court-martial. Civil process was taken against Payne,. and he was fined and imprisoned as above related.