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1935

A day of dreadful happenings which will always be remembered in Bahrain. I got up rather late meaning
to go to see the Muharram procession as usual. Just as I was starting one of the boys told me that there
was some trouble in the house of Mohammed Tayeb, close behind this house, and people had been killed
there. I drove straight to the house and found a very great crowd all around the place. I pushed through,
with Hamood, and as I went in I saw some people, women, lying on the ground outside surrounded by
people. The inside of the house was crammed and a great many people were wailing, there were two
natives trying to deal with the crowd, all over the courtyard and the inner courtyard and a little garden
adjoining it, there were people lying on the ground, some obviously dead, some alive and injured and
many unconscious, most of them were women, but there were some boys and one or two old men. They
were all sorts & conditions, many were decently dressed, others were beggars. It was almost impossible
to walk without treading on the people, most of them had blue marks on their faces, showing suffocation,
& many of them had been soaked with water which people, meaning well, had poured over them. Most
of the women had their diaperels covering their faces, which lessened the chance of recovery. Thoms,