NEWS BV MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12525, 10 April 1935, Page 7

NEWS BV MAIL

THE ARMY BACK TO ARMOHR:

A new type of land-fighting machine—that is in effect .a mobile suit ot armour—is being tried out by the War Office. The machine is a steel box, seven feet long, two and a-half feet wide, and about, two feet high. It would carry a machine gunner. It is designed for use in advance reconnoitring work-in open warfare. The machines would take the place of the infantrymen who has to crawl on his chest seeking scraps of cover as he advances. Tho new machine dees not look like a tank, but it would achieve most of the functions of a light- tank without being .so cumbersome . FIVE-BEET BATH. The are 998 kinds of baths and most of them are wasteful of water. 8o the Association of Bath Maine aucturers, England has decided to launch a. istandard-size hath to save water. It is five feet, long, tapering at one end. It holds twenty gallons. average of the other baths is twentyeight gallons. The total saving is computed to he 1,629,000 gallons of water a. year. MOST DOMESTICATED DOG. Probably the most domesticated dog in the world is Biclc, of ‘Wimbledon (Surrey). He waits on his mistress like a maid. In the morning he takes her letters and papers to her in bed? walling her always at- the, same time. Then he carries her slippers and dress’ ing gown across the room anj puts them on her bed. Finally, lie will find all her morning cfothes for her and give them to her in the right order. He helps even with the housework. He will fetch brooms and dusters from the cellar anq carry them. He always carries even the largest rugs upstairs and puts , them in their places, and when she is shopping he insists °n carrying the basket home. Ho can be trusted to> take a dozen eggs a mile or more from the shop without cracking them.

RUSHED HOME BY AIR, WITH BROKEN NECK. A woman with a broken necle flew from Paris to Croydon, and was taken to a London nursing home. She .was Mrs Parmentier, a young Englishwoman, who was involved;in a; mortor-car . accident at Vichy;. France. Her neck was broken and she received other injuries. Her life was in danger, and the journey to London by train and hoat was considered too dangerous. The woman was cased from, head to foot in plaster of paris ..She was accompanied by her husband, a doctor, and a woman friend. To avoid humps the machine was floivn above the clouds and .fog.