25 JULY 1931, Page 11

Since writing the above we learn that Miss Offenheim has

renounced the penalties, stating that it has always been her intention to do so. It would thus appear that she is after all not on the side of the angels, for she has drawn the teeth of future common informers by setting a precedent from which they will find it very hard to depart. No more insidious attack on the sanctity of the English Sunday could have been launched. We withdraw the admiration which we professed in the preceding paragraph.