15 AUGUST 1941, Page 14

BERSERKS ON BICYCLES

SIR,—In The Spectator of August 1st " Janus " pointed out the difi• culty that magistrates had in dealing with motoring offences com• mined by soldiers I fancy that when a man dons his uniform he feels he is no longer bound by civilian laws on the highway The other day a case in point occurred down here. An elderly woman was knocked off hen bicycle at a crossing where the lights were in he favour by a soldier on a motor-bicycle coming the other way w:th the lights against him. She protested, saying had he not noticed the lights, to which he replied "My good woman, don't you know there is a war on? "—Yours faithfully,

VERONICA S. BATCHELOR. Hill Wootton House, Nr. Warwick.