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1935

The Shoreham arrived in the morning. Fort. Went up to see how the work on the water channel was getting
on, we are doing a big drainage scheme at the south of the fort which will carry off the water from several
gardens which have no access to the sea. Went in to the Police Station & heard some evidence about a
supposed theft case, then worked in the office. We expected the SNO but as he did not turn up we drove out
to Sakhrir without him to lunch with the Shaikh, Mohammed and Abdulla & Sulman were there & quite soon
after we got there Loch, the SNO & the Knachbull-Hughessens arrived. They seemed pleasant, quite
informal sort of people, she is small & fair & colourless, very badly dressed & he is tallish with a moustache
& rather pink & speaks with a slightly Oxford manner. He was at Eton & Balliol. We sat a long while in the
Meglis before lunch, the usual sort of conversation, mostly compliments. The Minister made all the suitable
remarks. The Shaikh showed him a photo of the King from the Times, which he is very pleased with. Then
we had lunch. Before lunch I had suggested to the Shaikh that he should mention the question of his subjects
in Persia and their ill treatment by the Persian Government, the Shaikh tackled him about it at lunch & spoke