"KIDNAPPERS !"

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 4

"KIDNAPPERS !"

SCENE AT AERODROME

An exciting scene at a French aerodj'omo preceded the flight to' England of! v woman passenger in a speciallychartered British aeroplane, says an English paper.

As .soon as the- aeroplane arrived at Le Bourget an ambulanco drove up, and. from it—according to a report from Paris—a woman doctor, a nui'so, and another- attendant transferred it woman, aged about seventy. Suddenly she uttered a startling cry, "Help, help!" she yelled. "They arc kidnapping me." .

The woman's protests were so vociferous that the commandant of the airport, M. Girardot, appeared, and to the accompaniment of her cries of "Save me! Save me!" he-made au investigation.

It was explained that the patient was au Englishwoman, whose health was so poor that it had become necessary to transfer her from, Jior residence in Paris to England, where she was to undergo medical treatment.

Tho patient, however, it was stated, did not favour removal, and in their solicitude members of her, family had decided that it would be better for lici; to travel by, air rather than; by train' and boat. After consulting police head-, quarters tho commandant raised no objection to tho patient, being taken on the journey.

..Less than two hours later tho: machine landed at Hillman's Mayland aerodrome at Romf ord, where -it was expected. '. Mr. Edward Hillman said later: "When the machine landed tho patient was quito normal, and was laughing. She walked out with the doctor, a nurse, and a malo attendant. A car was in w-aitng and in it'tho party left tho aerodrome. Tho French doctov, the nurse, and tho attendant returned to Paris later." . .

The patient, who remained perfectly solf-jjpsscssed, was drivon. by road to a nursing jiomo at Oxford;