Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-15 | Page 1 | Polish General and Count Fight Bloodless Duel

I Polish General And nd Count Fight Bloodless Duel Army Amy Officers Officer's Bullet t Misses Mark and Count Refuses to Pull pun Trigger WARSAW June 15 AP AP Count Count and tid General Sze who quarreled over the recent Polish coup fought a duel with revolvers today In a friends friend's house in In Warsaw Varsa The The- generals general's bullet missed and refused to shoot The du duel dudi 1 was held In ln the presence of ot seconds and a c court of honor The principals agreed to to fire a I single shot each at a distance of paces Upon the signal Fire General turned and fired His bullet grazed Count hair halt and buried burled Itself in the wall of ot the room Count dramatically lowered his revolver and said I to state that 1 deliberately do donot donot donot not want to shoot If H. there Is any anyone anyone anyone one here who thinks it is necessary to defend his honor bonor or takes issue with my Ideals let him shoot But ButI 1 I shall not sho shoot t The quarrel between Count and General grew out of a me meeting between the two men early In June when the tue latter refused to shake hands with the former formel premier The gen general ral 4 Continued on cm page 6 5 I POLISH GENERAL AND COUNT FIGHT BLOODLESS DUEL I Continued from page 1 1 called Count a coward for tor failing falling to reply to newspaper attacks attack made by Marshal author o of the recent coup against the Order of at Polish Officers who wino correspond to West Point graduates Count then challenged the general but the duel did not take ake place at that time because of the he difficulty of at obtaining seconds At length Count suggested suggest suggest- ed that the matter be dropped until untila a court of arbitration could rule on the delicate points of the code of dueling Involved In the matter This court yesterday ruled that the counts count's challenge was Issued in strict accordance with the code of honor within twenty-four twenty hours after the dispute