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Tuesday 16th November

Fort. More kit inspections. Saw Mohd , Yusuf Kanoo, full of his
trip to Trans Jordan, Chase re camp at Mhq and Hav Ibrahim re extras.
Y.K. came to call very full of his trip to Trans Jordan where he says he
was received like loyalty - but apparently the Amir asked him to lunch &
then went out to lunch himself. In afternoon gardened & then went over
to Mhq to see work on the race course, all getting on well.

Wednesday 17th November

Fort.

At Muhq in afternoon, Agar & Mackenzie tried out my mares, Wadhna went
well & beat some of the best Police horses. Dinner at Agency to see some
very dull films, a boring affair, Jacksons the only other person present.

Thursday 18th November

Fort, spent most of the time in the horse lines looking at the ponies.
Office, various people came in, Hick re guests for HH's investiture, an
Airways man talking a lot of nonsense about building a super hotel after
the war and several other people.

In the afternoon we went over to Muharraq and saw the horses in their
temporary home, several Awali horses were there & quite a lot of people
looking on.

Went to the cinema to see Bitter Sweet, a very poor show quite unlike the
original play, the only good thing was a ballet with attractive
colouring.