MIDDLE EAST: One World

The London weekly Tribune reported that at Kantara, a wartime troop transit base on the Suez Canal, the station platform was lined with ten lavatories, marked respectively:

Officers, European

Officers, Asiatic

Officers, Colored

Warrant Officers and Sergeants, European

Warrant Officers and Sergeants, Asiatic

Warrant Officers and Sergeants, Colored

Other Ranks, European

Other Ranks, Asiatic

Other Ranks, Colored

A.T.S. [British WACs].

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