He remembered, years ago, when he had been in China, he had been taken to a Shaolin Temple where he was told that they practised a certain form of fighting called Kung Fu.
It was the British Ambassador who had suggested that the Duke might like to see the ancient art that had been handed down for nearly three thousand years.
“The Japanese make a great fuss over their Ju-Jitsu,” he told the Duke. “But that is only a development of the original Kung Fu, which was known in China in 200 BC, when Chinese soldiers were trained to become supermen.”
The Duke had been most interested and he had watched the monks fighting in a manner that he had never dreamt possible. Their strength was unbelievable and he saw one monk let his opponents break their wrists against his iron-hard stomach.
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