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PORTRAIT OF A HOTEL

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by Brigadier Dudley Clarke C.B., C.B.E.
Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo was an institution for generations of Europeans in the Middle East from the 1830s until its complete destruction in the recent riots. Brigadier Clarke, who lived at Shepheard's for several years between the wars, gives a sketch of the hotel and some of the people to be seen there.

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Brigadier Dudley Clarke C.B., C.B.E.
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