SALONIKA HOTEL TRICK
GERMAN PROPRIETOR’S JEST. Germans own all the hotels of importance in Salonika, writes a correspondent from that town. When General Mahon, Commander-in-Chief of the British, came ashore six weeks ago to seek headquarters, be was forced to go to a German hotel. Scores of lesser British officers find themselves in the same predicament. It begins to look as if the German proprietors of the Salonika hotels had tried to play a trick on the British and French army men who seek rooms at their hotels. Whenever an Allied officer is shown a room be always finds on the walls two pictures, one of the king of Greece and the other of the Queen. Lord Granard, who is on General Mahon’s staff, has at the foot of his bed a cheap print of the Kaiser’s sister. The French officers, in the main, are billeted in the French schoolhouse and in French homes at Salonika.
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Southland Times, Issue 17658, 16 February 1916, Page 6
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156SALONIKA HOTEL TRICK Southland Times, Issue 17658, 16 February 1916, Page 6
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