Show DUEL WITH SWORDS Desperate Combat Between > Two Frenchmen THE FIGHTING WAS FURIOUS Sixteen Engagements InWhich the Count de Lubersao and Baron de Rothschild Were the Participants in Which Former Was Wounded Duel Lasted Ten Minutes Sleeves of the Shirts of the Combatants Literally Torn to Pieces by Points of the Swords Paris Jan 20The longexpected duel between the Count de Lubersac and Baron Robert de Rotshchlld was fought with swords at 11 oclock this morning on Baron do Rotshchllds estate es-tate at Boulogne Stir Seine The duel began at 11 oclock and lasted ten minutes min-utes when Count dc Lubersac received a lunge perforating his arm from the elbow to the arm plL The duel was then stopped Both the Count and the Baron fought most determinedly neither flinched and neither showed the slightest desire to spare the other Sixteen engagements engage-ments took place all of a desperate character The combatants attacked each other furiously The sleeves of their shlts were literally torn to pieces oy tne points or tneir swords as the duellists repeatedly lunged at each other Several times they came to close quarters and their seconds were obliged td separate them At the sixteenth onslaught Baron de Rothschild lunged at the count who tried to parry but failed and the Barons sword penetrated his arm jut above the elbow and Issued at the armpIt arm-pit The spectators hastened around the wounded man and two wellknown physicians examined the wound The doctors said the Counts life was not In danger but It was Impossible to continue the duel Count de Lubcrsac was then driven back to Paris Baron de Rothschild is still performing perform-ing military service with the Fifty fourth regiment of Infantry In garrison garri-son at Compelgne He only attained his majority yesterday and lost no time In settling his account with Count de Lubersac The RothschildLubcrsac incident which brought out a remarkable crop of duels had Its origin In a boys quarrel quar-rel dating from the time when Count de Lubersac and Baron de Rothschild were at the same college They quarreled quar-reled one day In regard to a > tennis court which was occupied by Roth schild and which Count de Lubersac wanted During the quarrel Lubersac called his adversary sale Julf dirty Jew Illfeeling was revived after they left college by an expression attributed to Baron Robert de Rothschild respqctlng Count de Lubersac which was repeated to the latter soon after his admission to the Jockey club The Count then wrote a letterIn which he announced himself ready to meet the Baron on the field of honor although as he expressed It You know how you and your people Inspire me with disgust Baron de Rothschild sent as his seconds sec-onds MM Saint Alcry and De Dufllse to Count de Lubersac who appointed Count de Dion and Count Bent CasEd lane as his seconds Baron dc Roth schilds seconds stated In a letter subsequently sub-sequently published that their efforts to secure an encounter had failed because be-cause of the refusal of Count de Lu bersacs seconds to allow the duel to take place when they discovered that Baron de Rothschild was still a minor Letters of Baron Robert to his seconds sec-onds and to the Count added fuel to the flames and the Count announced his purpose lo again send his seconds when the Baron should attain his ma jorltj He also wrote to Baron Roberts Rob-erts cousin Baron Edouard dc Roth schild son of Baron Alphonse dc Roth schild slating that as the son of the head of the Rothschild family he should hold himself responsible and should Insult him at their first meet fag A duel followed between Count de Lubcrsac and Baron Edouard do Rothschild April 12th of last year In which the latter was slightly wounded in the forearm In the first bout Count do Lubersac a few days previously pre-viously fought with and wounded M Michael EphreussI and a third duel arising from the same controversy was fought between De Dion and M De Saint Alery In which the latter was wounded |