Show The latest reported German duel was little less a murder than the one that made such an uproar In Europe where 1 Lieutenant was made to fight and was killed because in n drunken stupor he had swung his arms and struck n brother officer A civilian named Held was forced into 0 duel toy a party of officers because a squad of students had Jostled them in the streets and Held one of the students slapped Lieut Thlemo In tho face Held was forced to fight with pistols though his antagonist antago-nist was the crack pistol shot of his regiment the request for swords aa the weapons being denied apparently for no other reason than that with pls tos the officer had the advantage The student was shot through tho heart The brutal conduct of the line officers of the army will be much stimulated by the reported remark of the Emperor that he could not trouble himself with what subalterns might do In this phase of Germanys affairs the empire lacks nothing of being a military despotism des-potism |