"They pay 9d. a night—less than in the last war, when the charge was a shilling, This gives them a cubicle. If they want a bed-sitting room it costs them 1s. 6d. or 8s. 6d. a week; these are so comfortable that many use the place as an hotel, and the rooms are always booked up. d "All sorts of games can be played here, and there is also a clubroom for young sailors of eighteen or so; about forty use it every night. We serve an average of 300 to 400 lunches daily, and, according to our till registers, 1,800 customers are dealt with every day—people who come in for a meal or cigarettes or a haircut or a shave but who do not stay the night. Sound films are shown in the cinema; twice a week free shows are given to 400-500 sailors, Who get a supper as well. stalled- bigger than many om railway stations.
"A huge left luggage office has in-Once the shelves held nothing but those blue handkerchief bundles sailors used to carry. Today these are seldom seen among the hundreds of suit-cases, The office was started because so many sailors wanted to leave their oil-skins behind the counter; now they pay 2d a week for each package, ass British Navy, the Rest has oaao "Besides the work. among sail survivors of torpedoed vessels—part of a scheme organized locally under Lady Dunbar-Naismith Wife of the Commander-in-Chief. French, Dutch, and British survivors have been taken in, and they are fed, clothed, and given a they are ready to go back to their
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