WHY THE MANAGER FOUND ROOMS
New Delhi, May 20. A man and his wife, in tattered clothes, and leading a wire-haired terrier, walked into a large Calcutta hotel. The manager, barely looking up, murmured “No rooms.” The man then told his story—how they had been pushed back through Burma since the first days of the Japanese attack: now they had walked, ridden on trucks, paddle-steamers, and bullock carts for 1.500 miles, their main food being rice. The man was W. P. Neal, manager of a British firm. The hotel manager found them rooms.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 13 June 1942, Page 5
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