Everything tagged: duel

In these days when duelling is rare even on the Continent of Europe, something of glamour attaches to the thought of this one-time--fashionable method of settling a dispute. It is interesting to find on record the account of a duel which was fought in Hongkong, nearly 63 years ago. As might be expected the parties concerned were not British, one being a Spaniard and the other a South American. The weapons they chose were pistols. The cause was not the romantic one of a fair lady, but the more prosaic matter of card debts.