/"Derexpy (Scienmietc Seur-Devence)."—By W. E.- Fairbairn, Instructor fo, the Shanghai Police, "North-China Daily News, Tt was about the time that the late Euzen Sandow left the stage and opened his physical culture school—roughly. a quarter of a century ago—that methods of self-defence came to have a real vogue. Boxing, of course, goes back to the Greeks and Romans, swordsmanship, to the Vikings or earlier, and forms lot jiv-mitsu and wrestling are understood to have been practised in Japan many centuries ago, but the actual modern revival only canie when Sandow was seen to have discovered @ new commercial possibility, which naturally brought others fon' the scene, Sirce then system has followed system, and more than one ingenious person has taken the best points out of many systems and combined them all, utu ne would think that the meckest Mr. Brown of Tooting would be perfectly sato fon the darkest night in the worst slums of Whitechapel. Or Silas Aloysius Schumaker in the Bowery. "Yet from sear it seems we can still better protect ourselves, for ever there are new or improved systems, and now our dwn Shanghai has produced one, styled "Defend.—Defends You." Its inventor, Inspector W. E. Fairbairn, of the S.MLP., needs but little introduction but it might be remarked that he instructor to the S.M.P., a member of the Tokyo Jiuzjitsu " Unive (Kodokan), an expert with firearms and 4 general all-round athlete, he should know something about hi subject. "Defendu" already has been made the official textbook for the S.M.P., and the Hongkong and Singapore Police.
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