A Challenge

Two months ago Count Bethlen, Premier of Hungary, sent his seconds to Deputy Stefan Rakovsky, notorious Habsburgist leader, challenged him to a duel.

Deputy Rakovsky declined to meet the Premier, stated that he had not settled an affair with one Colonel Pronay and had, therefore, "lost the privilege of a man of honor."

A council of honor was formed and decided that Count Bethlen had "kept the regulations as a man of honor" and was entitled to give and ask for satisfaction at arms. "The field of honor" will, therefore, be occupied.

Duelling is forbidden by law, as it is in most other European countries, but Hungarian Deputies and Ministers seem singular exceptions to the law.