Berlin, Sept. 25.
Duels, including the time-honoured sabre duels of the University' students, which hitherto have been winked at by the police authorities, will, itis confidently believed: be definitely abolished throughout the whole of Germany. The new Penal Code Committee of the Reichstag' thas adopted a new regulation providing heavy gaol terms not only for! duellists but also for the customary witnesses and other persons im-Heated in what is now generally believed to be an obsolete and mediaeval practice—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min
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