BRITISH INNKEEPER
REFUSAL TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN OFFICERS & OTHER RANKS. HOTEL PUT UNOFFICIALLY OUT OF BOUNDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. Because an English innkeeper refused to discriminate between officers and private soldiers. Army ofiicers have '•taken unofficial steps” to make his hotel out of bounds. The publican, Mr V. Hallam, licensee of the Swan Hotel, at Arlesford, near Colchester, has hungup a notice: “The proprietor of this inn has not consented to exclude any member of his Majesty’s forces from the bar.” An assistant provost-marshal told Mr Hallam that certain other young' officers had complained about having to bevin company with other ranks and asked that the lounge be set apart for officers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6
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120BRITISH INNKEEPER Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1941, Page 6
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