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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1940.

UNARMED COMBAT ---IT'S CALLED

THE ARMY is being taught “unarmed combat” - and it's very rough. When the Germans invaded Norway and Holland and Belgium, the defenders could hardly tell friend from foe, and many were overpowered by surprise attack.

So the British soldier is to be trained to defend. himself against this sort of thing even when he is unarmed.

For this purpose the Army has bulit up a system of training which makes use of the best. for worst) tricks of the orthodox wrestling styles, of the boxing

ring and of the “rough-house.” The result, as demonstrated at a' physical, training centre in the Southern Command, is something very much to be avoided.

.There are weapons less fear- some than the bare hands of a sergeant-major instructor, who threw men about as though they were. dolls.

"Unarmed combat" is no af- fair of taboos and niceties of behaviour, Kicking, gouging, butting -all these it permits againet a foe who knows no rutes.

While two instructors' were locked in mirnic fight, an expert said: "War is always a matter of life and death even between un- armed men. So against the sort of opponent we have to face we cannot afford to have any scruples about the methods we use.

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Such things as kicking gouging are detestable to us. But we must learn to use them against the Hun- and we must use them without a tremor."

A Pretty Throw

As he spoke, one of the instruc- tors sprang head-over-heels and landed on his back. The other pounced upon him and held him fast.

"A very pretty throw," com- mented the expert, “and very nicely judged. A little misjudg- 'ment and we might have had a

broken collar-bone then."

"Unarmed combat,” the Army says, gives a man self-confidence and initiative, and teaches him to acquit himself as a soldier even

HE SAID HITLER WAS INSANE

The noted Norwegian psychiatrist, Dr. J. Scharf- fenberg, aged 80, who be fore the occupation by the Nazis published scien- tific articles in the Nor- wegian press declaring that Hitler, was insane, has been arrested:

When Germans entered Norway Dr. Scharffenberg went to them and announced that he was the author of those, articles, adding that he preferred not to wait for the Gestapo. They did not arrest him, but ordered him to report: to them every evening.

Recently in addressing students, he violently attacked. Quisling's contention that King Haakon was illegally elected, and was wildly applauded. This caused his arrest. Further serious anti-Quisling demonstrations by students reported from Oslo.

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CLIMBED GAOL ROOF, FELL

Climbing the roof of one of the prison buildings at Dartmoor curly in the morning, a prisoner ripped some slates from the roof and smashed three of the skylights.

Suddenly he disappeared through one of them,

Many people from the main road witnessed the incident. S

SEAVACUEES FREE SCHOOL

Britain's child evacuees will not be charged school fees in Boston, The chairman of the City's School' Committee, announced that the fee usually charged non-residents for tuition at City schools would be dropped for Britain's refugee children staying with Boston Tamiiles, Associated PreOS, AN

although he finds himself in the most desperate of situations, -

- as, for instance, 'unarnicd- facing an enemy, charging with- fixed bayonet,

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Then the answer, it mems, is a swift movement made up of a duck, a parry and a twisting of the rifle in the enemy's hands, As performed by the demon strators it lays the enemy' on. his back in a second,

There is a neat trick of stalking and silently overpowering a sen- try; another of using the tin hat as a weapon of offence.

LIGHT LONDON

BOMBS ON

"AS" "A" "RULE NAZI-RAIDERS ARE USING LIGHT CALIBRE BOMBS IN THEIR ATTACKS ON LONDON,

Of the thousands of bombs which have been dropped, by far the greater number range in weight from 25 to 100 pounds. A stnall percentage are of the 250 pounds calibre.

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