22 AUGUST 1952, Page 4

The case in which two young gentlemen, aged seven and

eight, were charged on Tuesday with abstracting mail-bags and their contents from a train at Portsmouth has been adjourned. I there- fore make no comment on the legal aspect of it. But it was given in evidence that the elder boy stated that he simply walked up to the train as it stood in the station, and " got some bags of stuff." If a boy of eight can do that so can I, or anyone else—a sobering thought for anyone who believed that Her Majesty's mails were in safe keeping once they were in the