ABSENT GUESTS
One night in Cairo not long ago General Sir George Weir and 100 prosperous Britons sat down to dine. In the Waterloo Road, London, at the same time 300 of London s hungry and homeless joined the party. While the general was eating bread and cheese, the homeless London men were feasting on beef and plum pudding. The explanation of the difference was that the Cairo section of,the party were people who pa id live shillings tor a loan feast of lentil soup, bread and cheese and water, which cost threepence halfpenny a head, and the balance went to furnish the feast for men brought together bv the Church Army in their Waterloo Koad Hall. , , . The general and his friends drank in water the toast of "Absent Guests." The homeless ones drank, with even greater enthusiasm, the health in coffee of their "Absent Hosts." iOOOOUOOw'OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22985, 12 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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147ABSENT GUESTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22985, 12 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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