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Show Rifle Duel in Trench Fought by Odd Rules London, Feb. 20. An amazing duel du-el between nn Australian and n Turk Is quoted as an examplo of shcor recklessness by a captain who wns olllclttl press representntivo with tho British in tho Dardanelles. "You do," ho writes, "occailonally como across men of tho madly daring dar-ing sort of whom nny story might be true. Two months ago an ofllcer was going nlong his section of lino trench when h found n man standing stand-ing up a head nnd shoulders nhovo parnpot, with n trench of tho enemy not 300 hundreds away. "It turned out that ho was having a duel with a Turk. I do not know by what quaint system of signaling they arranged it, but each ono was linving ono shot nt the other and then standing up there for tbo other to have tho next shot nt him. So they blazed away at one another, whllo the men along the section of the trenches looked on through their pcrlscopos nnd ' loop holes, nnd no doubt the Turks were looking thru theirs nlso, ' "Tno officer told the man to stand 'down at onco and not to bo n fool. Tho('duoll8t stoppod down when ho Jumped up again and went on with the gamo. His rival's shots had almost al-most grazed his car both sideB W,ero eagerly looking on nnd observing observ-ing qulto honornbly tho rules of this extraordinary gamo when tho Australian Aus-tralian foil back Into tho trench, shot through tho templo. Tho shot camo not from tho Turk opposito, but from n distance to tho south. Whllo tho Australian was shooting, somo other Turk had shot him. "This Turk who shot him was not necessarily a bad sportsman certainly cer-tainly not a bad soldier. Probably he did not know that any duel was proceeding and he was not bound to1 honor it if he did' - ' |