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N.C.Os & very bright ones too - too intelligent police are a danger. Drove to the race course & round by Suk
al Khamis.
Saturday 3rd February
HH & Sh A came in
Dined at Agency, a party to meet Sir Reg Dorman Smith, Governor of Burma, also Hanna of Banco &
Skinner & Anderson. A pleasant party, Dorman Smith was very interesting, quite pleasant, very anti Chinese
especially about Madame Chang who he regards as a bitch & anti-British. He is
Sunday 4th February
Spent the whole morning at the Fort with Sh Khalifah hearing the case about the two Policemen, about whose
guilt there is no shadow of doubt. A very bad case. Not only did they conspire to smuggle but they double
crossed the Persian who was to take the stuff by stealing quite a lot of it.
