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I had the police out looking for the prisoners they lost so didn't have a parade. Dealt with the NCO &
men responsible for losing them, degraded the NCO by literally peeling off his chevrons - he went quite
yellow, a good NCO but one cannot have things like this happening. Busy morning, saw a lot of people
& went over to Agency - I had no time to get into court. Cole talked a lot about Loch not returning, he
thinks he won't come back, everyone is up against him, according to Cole, Harvey, RAF & apparently PR
too. Cole wants to know very much what is to happen. The Amir of Muharraq came & reported that he
suspected another woman had been murdered in Hedd, the one whose brother tried to kill her 2 years ago.
The Shaikh, entirely against my advice, let out the brother at the Eid & this is the result. Went to Amir's
office in the afternoon & cross questioned the cultured pearl man - a nasty swine. After dinner went to
Muharraq & on to Hedd, very nice motoring over the plain; had a long time there digging up the floors of
the house to find the body - but we didn't succeed. Got home at 3 am, the tide was very far out, last of the
month. So we had to land at RAF & I had my car at customs & walked into town from there, quite nice
walking but rather late. A young sister of the missing girl let on to the Police that she had been murdered