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Went across to Muharraq to see Loch off by air en route for home, almost missed him as I did not hear
when he left, a fine day & quite cool. Welsh, who commanded 303 Squadron in Basrah, now an Air
Commodore, was on the plane coming from a conference in Singapore. After they left I motored over to
Hedd with Cole to see the Police post there & took some more photos of it for my annual report. Worked
in the office all morning, very busy as I am struggling to get on with the Annual Report & cannot get time
fotr it. In afternoon motored out to see the Shaikh at Sakhrir, Abdulla & Sulman were there, he talked of
his private accounts & one or two other matters. Discussed the Sitrah murder and the Barbar affair, he
was quite interested in both these things. The Shaikh is doing some building out at Rumaitha, building is
one of his favourite ways of wasting money. there was another meeting of the delegation in the morning,
they made no comment on our offer but said they would inform their Government - I expect Ibn Saoud
will say it is not enough.