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1935

Sunday 17th March

Went over to Muharraq to pay calls, I only found Shaikh Abdulla & Sh Rashid at home. There was
nobody with Abdulla so I was able to discuss various matters which I wanted to speak about, the election
of a new Municipal Council in Muharraq etc. etc. We discussed the news about Germany which was on
the wireless, the fact that they have ordered conscriptions. Shaikh Abdulla said that he thought they
would never rest under the present conditions & that France wanted war. He reads the papers a lot. Came
back & worked in the office. Gardened in the afternoon & then went out to the camp to play Bridge at the
Nixs. He has been ill but is out of hospital again. Good Bridge. M very worried at all the war talk on the
wireless. I get the German news in English which is often very interesting. The garden is beginning to
look nice, lots of stocks coming out & all sorts of other flowers too.