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Show Ousted Editor of Big Paris Paper Challenges Successor To Duel nARIS, March 8. (By the Assocl- I a atcd Press) All Paris is awaiting th outcome of an effort by louis L,atzarus. retiring editor in chief ol i iii Figaro to obtain satisfaction rrbni its m w edit. us foi their initial edltpr-ial, edltpr-ial, to which he took offense. I m fatsarus iirsi challenged Alfred Capua, but the latter who is 64 years I old. told m. Latsarus' seconds he had I lonir ceased to be even amused by I such Challenges and that anyway, it was CUStoman that the younger man should be challenged when two were jointly involved, rsf rrlng to Marquis Robert de Flers, ayed 00, his co-cill-tor. Later, when the marquis heard of the incident, he promptly sqnt his seconds to m Lifttsarus, who ius not yet replledi so far as is know n Both M. Capus and the Marquis de Piers are members of the French SCJt-dem SCJt-dem and the one Is well known as a dramatist. (Note The Figaro, an influential inurnlUS new.so.ipcr, was laivtu vwi ,on February 2H, by M. Coty, a perfume per-fume manufacturer and n group of associates as-sociates When the purchase was first announced, M. I.atzarus attacked tho new proprietor In bitter terms and described him as a radical Socialist belonging to the ' parly ol which Call- rmx was formerly tho acknowledged chief." At the same time Bdourd Quintette, Qui-ntette, son of the former director. lOaston Calme'te who was shot deaa fby Madame I'aiiiaux. announced Ins resignation at general secretary of j i thu i Igai o.) |