(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Bela Fabian, fearless Jewish deputy in the Hungarian parliament, accepted the challenge to a duel of Understate Secretary Sztranyavsky, whom he charged with responsibility for the anti-Jewish student excesses.
Deputy Fabian chose as his seconds the Jewish deputies Paul Sandor and Marcel Baracs.
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