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Show JIu-Jltsu Long Known In Europe. A French teacher of boxing points out that nn art of self-dcrcnso approximately approx-imately equivalent to JIu-Jltsu was known In Europe In the seventeenth century. Its principles nre expounded in n work b) ono Nicolas Peteis, published pub-lished nt AmBteidam In 1071, and bearing bear-ing the lengthy explanatory tltlo: "The Art of Wrestling, and how ono can protect oneself In nil kinds of quarrels thnt ma) occur; how ono can with agility and rapidity repel all unfair attacks and meet one's adversary adver-sary with science" The work is llliih-trated. llliih-trated. Tho author apparent!) anticipated antici-pated many of the characteristic gr'ps of tho Japanese exponents of tetluy. |