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Rode, very few men on parade. Court, a lot of cases, in one a man sold 2 bags of sugar which were in fact
sand with a little sugar on top to a shopkeeper & then disappeared, later he stole a watch. Another case of
theft from RAF by a man previously implicated but not discharged. Rather a sticky day. Did some
gardening in the afternoon & then drove out to the Idari cross roads & back. Sgt Smith & Bradley came in,
they are going on leave on Thursday. They stayed till 8.30.

Tuesday 2nd July

Rode. Shaikhs in as usual. Discussed withdrawing the boys from Cairo. HH would not decide but left it till
Sh Abdulla could be consulted again.

Wednesday 3rd July

Went out with the Police on sort of Operation at between Senobis & Belad, put a cordon of about 80 men
across & three had to pass it. None succeeded in doing so.