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Show FIGHT DUEL WITH CANES. Students Discard Deadly Weapons and Adopt Innovation. Llssa, Posen. Fifteen minutes' slashing with n cano was tho limit of onduranco of ono of tho antagonists In tho nowest form of students' duel, which has Just occurred outsldo this city, whore It has been decided among tho students of tho technlcnl high school to dlspenso In tho futuro with tho deadly weapons for tho decision of affairs of honor. Tho students mot at a chosen spot, whero seconds marked out a ring. Tho antagonists then stripped to tho waist, each was handed a cano of equal length, and they then stopped Into tho ring. At tho word of command com-mand of tho director of tho combat they began slashing furiously until finally, after a quarter of an hour, ono of thorn overstepped tho limits of tho ring. Ho was thereupon declared to bo tho loser, but to tho onlookers It wns difficult to decldo which of tho op-pononts op-pononts hnd suffered most, ns their ribs, nrms and bncks presented tho ap-pearanco ap-pearanco of having been flayed. In tho university circles, whoro duols with swords havo hitherto been tho only recognized custom for students' stu-dents' duels, opinion Is greatly exorcised exor-cised ovor tho attempted Innovation. |