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1935

Eid Day. Called on Yusuf Kanoo & the Kozaibis in morning & on the Shaikh in the afternoon. Kozaibi
very gloomy over the pearl news from Europe. Motored, no agency party.

Saturday [16th March]

Paid calls, horrid hot day. Wrote letters. Drove out in afternoon & then Bridge at DGs. News of attempt
to fall Ibn Saoud - a pity it didn't come off. Naturally everybody is very excited about it. He was
attacked by three men with daggers in the great square in Mecca while processing round the Holy Stone
before removing the draperies from it which is done every year when they put on the new covering. The
Americans here are very thankful that the attempt did not come off as it would have made things very
awkward on the mainland where they have their oil concession.