NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 11 February 1930, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL.

DELIRIOUS WOMAN IN AERO•».n • V ■.-'PLANE 1 .

‘The Flying Samaritans” .is the title bestowed on tho air ambulance pilots who . have savetl the lives of many persons dangerously ill in the isolated spots of Northern Sweden, in a report published by the “Stockholm Dagblad.”

Ensign Lindow, one of the pilots, has just received a Carnegie award. He had flown to fetch a woman who was desperately ill and in urgent need of surgical aid. Tho patient, who was jn a delirious state, was tied to her bed. Owing to difficult starting conditions, Lindow was compelled to leave his mechanic behind and he started alone with the patient. After having down part of the way, Lindow was terrified; to observe that the woman, who was big and strong ,had released, herself and was about Ip throw herself .out of .the plane. Lindow. climbed up ,on the back of the seat, . caught 'hold of the woman, and with great .difficulty managed to held her with one hand, while with the other he piloted the machine.

Twice ho 'got jin to dense snowstorms, hut in spile of all he managed lo •roach his destination almost Miff with cold and exhausted by the exertion. The woman was immediately taken to a hospital, and her Life was saved. SPORTING- INDIAN PRINCES. England is the sporting “nursery” of Indian princes, many of whom are at public schools or at a university. The Nawa-b of Pataudi, for example, is in the running for a hockey “blue” at Oxford, and the Maharajah of Jaipur turns jout regularly for the Royal Military Academy (Woolwich) team. The young Maharajah of Couch Beliar, who is at Harrow (says tho lxmdon “Sunday Times”), is looked on as a. most promising cricketer. His mother, the Dowager Maharanee, is the only Indian woman who lias ever hunted. Flying is another sport which is proving extremely popular among the princes. The Rajah of Ivalsai is training to obtain his pilot’s certificate, and other members of Indian ruling families are also taking lessons. Prince Duleepsinliji has established himself ns a favorite cricket enthusiast. He is a nephew of the famous “Ranji”—the Jam Salrb of Nawanagar J —• and like kis uncle he plays for Sussex. He won his “blue” fit Com bridge, played for England against the South Africans and is now touring with the M.C.C. team in New Zealand. COCKNEY WAR STORIES. The London “Evening. News” has been publishing “true'' Cockney war stories, lrom which two examples are taken:

During repairs to entanglements, a Cockney found himseit holding a stake while a Cornish comrade drove it home with a maiiet. Suddenly a shell exploded and both' were wounded. When the Cockney recovered consciousness lie was heard to remark to his comrade: “Bhmey, yei want's to lie more careful with that there maiiet; yer nearly ’it me band with it when that there firework exploded.” An aeroplane battle was raging over the lmt near Vpres, where the battalion concert was in full swing. /V German bomb demolished half thereof, and the audience was preparing to leave, when the Cockney ser-geant-major mounted the platform and announced, “While the gents up there are settling their little differences, Private Smith will .sing ‘Land of ’Ope and Glory.’ Nab! All together boys, and we’ll blow the other ’arf of the roof orf.’ ”

You also read of the heavy sleeping of the officer who is roused in a torpedoed ship by the Cockney call: “Yer barfs ready, sir.” Then, too, there is the Army Service Corps driver who drove over a precipice and who then claimed to he the first man who looped the loop “in a blinkin' lorrv.”

AX TXCEXTOI'S PUZZLE. A barrister contributes (o “Tin.* i imes” an ingenious and apparently insoluble • puzzle, which may be summarised thus: A says to B, pwill tench you-to bo a barrister; half fee now, and the other half when you win your first case. B paid, was taught,'and <’ailed to the Par, but failed to do anything at all for two years. A then said to himself: If f. .sue him for the instalment, of my fee, and win the ease, he will have to pay me; if 1 lose, then he tins won his first ease, and will therefore not: have to pay me. That seems unanswerable until we get B’s view: If A wins, then 1 have lost, my first ease and need not pay him ; and if he loses, then by the judgment of the Court, J need not pay him. So that is that; and there is no evident solution. A HOUSE A LET) 02. Mrs. H. Watson, writing to the “Daily Mail” from.! . Sunderland, states that her jret pony, Polly, which had to lie destroyed owing to an injury, was about 5 years old. This instance of equine longevity follows on the burial in a coffin a fortnight before at Mitrkfield, Leicestershire, of a p.et horse aged 40. A liorse ; galled Old Peter, which was taken from England to the Argentine amt died there, aged 47, sired 17 foals in his last year. A horse in Edinburgh lived to .be 00, and one ! at Norton, Conyers, Ripon, to he 02. ' Both instances are well authenticated. A hunter, aged 43, was ridden to a meet of the South Durham Hounds a few years ago. ARE WOMEN THE WEAKER SEN?Through sheer force of habit we still refer to women as “the weaker sex.” But to-day there is the dawning of a misgiving tliat the phrase is a libel, rather than a label. Sir Maxi Pemberton .frankly faces the facts in the “Sunday Dispatch.” A girl, lie points out, brings down a thief with a Rugby tackle. A. nestlin'stress - drives off would-bo bandits. Women swim the Channel. Ls there--anv truth ■in the suggestion that modern women have less physical courage, than men ' ■ - There are points, with whmhS’.r Max .Pemberton is obliged to deal with more truth- than -tact. Ihey demonstrated increase,: tor instance in the size of women's hands arm feet. It is necessary to suffer in order -to be powerful. In physique women have jumped abend mkn’s bodily 'development has marked time. ' ■Rpt—and this ' is an interesting; point— is not. some of women’s eonrduo partly to, a trust .in ..man’s, old-timo chivalry-,- ; Does -ther plucky girl instinctively rely on the fact thatTeren. a' burglar' is still reluctant to hit hack ?