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Show AMERICAN SOLDIERS STUDYING JIU-JITSU It Is Believed That Science Will Be Found Valuable in Hand-to- hand Fighting. By ROBERT S. DOMA1T, International News Service Staff Correspondent. PARIS, April 20. American forces have takon up jiu-jitsu as part of their hand-to-hand lighting training behind the American lines. Lieutenant Bernard Desouches of the French mission attached to the American army, who taught Canadian Ca-nadian and British soldiers the principles of the Japanese art, is in charge of the corps of Instructors, who are busy showing show-ing the troopers the "arm lock" and other grips which can break an arm or a leg in an instant. "The boys may never need their training, train-ing, but thero is a possibility that they may some day. in hand-to-hand fighting, find themselves without rifles or grenades. gre-nades. Later, I should like to bring a group of Canadians whom I trained in jiu-jitsu over to the American lines to give an exhibition." Lieutenant Desouches is the author of "Attack and Defense" and "Hand -to-Hand Fighting." In addition to jiu-jitsu he is teaching the American troops the finer points of British, French and German Ger-man bayonet practice. Before the war he Taught the Paris police how to subdue Apaches. In demonstrating his system three years before the war before a committee com-mittee of the Cercle Hoche. Lieutenant Desouches tried out his system on an Apache, who butted him with his head and attempted the savate. Desouches used the arm lock and broke the Apache's arm. A lawsuit followed, for the Apache had "reformed," and the victim now has a life pension from the city of Paris. |