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The Modem Photograph and the Old Print Above Show That the“Dislocation Hold** for Disarming an Knemy Wad Used in

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THERE is nothing new about“dirty fighting” tactics.

The methods of defense anil

attach utied in today's Com-

mando ttaihmg are as old as thelulls and proof of this is to be

found in the pictures on thisp t-o which compare present-day

j i »hoih of hand-to-hand combat

with illustrations from a 300

year-old book on fighting tech-nique.

The Only difference in the“fight duty and live** tactics is

that the technique of the UnitedNations soldier is a lot moredeadly.

Modern ntedieal knowledge re-

garding nerve centers and tin

structure of the body has broughtabout new methods of disposingof an opponent. The theory and

the pritn iple, however, remainthe same

The old prints shown here weretaken from a seventee.nth cen-tury French book entitled “TheAdmirable Art of the Fight.”The photographs, which show aremarkable similarity in modernto-tlie-death combat, were takenat a Commando-training schoolin Britain where both Americanand British soldiers are being

drilled in the art of rough-and-ready battling.

The dirty fighting methods of

today are no more shocking nowthan they were in the Seven-

teenth Century. Breaking an op-ponent's hack or gouging out hiseyeballs may not. fall within the

Marquis of Queensherry rulesbut. in dealing with opponents nsruthless as the concentrationcamp Nazis and the Japs who.while carrying a flag of truce,

shoot our boys, there is no choicehut to apply these medieval tac-tics brought up-to-date.

Scores of Commando-trainingschools dot Britain. The first

training school in this country

for teaching guerrilla fightingwas recently opened at Concord,

Massachusetts. American vet-

erans of the Dieppe and other

Commando raids form part ofthe teaching staff.

To help the instructors In theUnited States Army camps, a

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The Seventeenth C'entnr> Piet lire Above,Compared With the Modern Photographat the Right, Shows the So-Calledlllp-Throw \\ a*» a Fighting Trick

Practiced at la>a*t 300 Vean Ago.

booklet by Captain \V. E. Fair-bairn of the British Army hasbeen prepared. The captain, anexpert in close combat work, isin this country touching thesetactics to our forces.

“In war,” Fairbairn drills into

the soldiers, “you cannot affordthe luxury of squeamishness.Either you kill or you capture,or you will be raptured or killed.We’ve got to be tough to win.and we’ve got to be ruthless.”

Even civilians should knowthese methods in case guerrillafighting should ever come to the

American mainland, says CaptainFairbairn.

“Once mastered,” he went on,

“they will instill the courage andself-reliance that come with thesure knowledge that you are themaster of any dangerous situa-tion.”

Captain Fairbairn, who is cred-ited with many of the innova-

tions of close combat work, de-

vised his principles when he wasa member of the Municipal Po-lice of Shanghai, the Oiinesccity that was the .sanctuary ofsome of the world’s most des-perate criminals and has keptthat reputation now that theJaps have moved in.

The principles behind the Fair-bairn technique are based onOriental jujitsu, a wrestling art

that has been practiced in the

Far East for over 2,000 years.Whether the method of trick

fighting originated, as some his-

torians believe, with the ancientChinese who were forbidden to

carry weapons or, as more popu-larly believed, with the physically

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inferior Japanese as a means of

overcoming their natural handi-cap in encounters, is not known.

Uncle Sam's Commandos areknown as Rangers and. in a littlemore than a year, they have

earned the respect of our allies,not to mention the Axis

The American soldier, peace-loving though he may be m civil-

ian life, seems to have a flair

for the manly arts of boxing andwrestling. It is only a step for

him to master the bone-breaking

tricks which are necessary to

subdue our enemies who have

a habit of “hitting below thebelt.”

Hardened British Commandos,

who are veterans of many a raidon the coast of Europe, are out-spoken in their admiration for

the Americans they instruct indirty fighting.

It may come as a surprise to

these hard-boiled teachers and

to their pupils from this side ofthe Atlantic to find out thatmost of their tough tactics wereold stuff 300 years ago.

The musty French volumefrom which the old drawings onthis page were taken could, intranslation, almost be used as atextbook for today’s Commandotraining.

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A Horse That Wouldn't Retire

EVERYONE has hoard Of menwho wouldn't retire or vs ho,

when finally they did, gotsick because they hail nothing todo and died.

In Racine. Wisconsin, there isa horse named Ned w ho evidentlyfelt the same way. for he almostdid die when he was pensionedoff from his milk wagon.

Mr. Allen Gifford, owner of the

Progressive L>airy. thought thatafter 20 years of faithful service,

the old horse had earned a rest.

It so happened that Miss RuthTeuscher, a local school teacher,

was looking for a companion for

a riding horse on her country

! place and everybody concerned| agreed that it was just the placei for Ned.

"Why, that's a fine place for! the old fellow.” Al, the barn manat the dairy, said. "It's a horse’sheaven his own box-stall knee-deep in straw, all the hay and

t oats he can eat, and Miss Teusch-er's 'Lady* for company.”

But Ned missed the daily rou-! tine, the companionship of his

i driver, the friendly people along

his route, and especially the chil-

dren with their apples and sugar.

Now he had nothing to do allday but roam the pasture and

i eat And sleep. And he didn’t like

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Miss Teuscher. who saw her

four-footed guest fading beforeh r eyes, was distressed and toldMr. Clifford, who gave one look

at Ned and had Al go out to thefarm with the sulky and fete hNed bark home. The minute thebridle was put on the old horse,he perked up like a flower underrain.

The first part of the journeyhome was unfamiliar to Ned.

Then they passed a school,

house that the horse know. Heperked up. tossed his head, broke

into happy neighs, and prancedalong like a horse half his age.

"The old fellow certainlyknows where he’s going now,” Alchuckled to himself. "I’ll justgive him the reins.”

The next day the blacksmithfitted a set of new shoes to Ned’sfeet Tile day after that he wasput on the route nearest to thedairy. Soon he grew sleek andfat again, a happy and contentedhorse because he was workingone© more.

There are rumors that severalold mpn in Racine, who had fig-ured to take things easy for therest of their days, perked up andwent job hunting after readingthe story of old Ned.

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