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1935

Thursday Nov 22nd

Fort. Very busy day in office. Innumerable people came in, Davies called about oil Coy affairs, fish traps at
Sitrah etc. I gave him a hint about the a/c Chief Local Representative, he is inclined to short circuit him, I
also told him that we wanted news about more shipments of oil. Got a warrant of arrest & search for Yor,
Yusuf Kanoo's head clerk, an Indian, who I have disliked for many years. YK is suing him for cheating. I
searched the house myself with the Police. We found a lot of papers & jewellry. The matter has caused a
great sensation in the bazaar. Motored in the afternoon, Loch came over here before dinner & stayed a long
time & discussed plans for Christmas, the problem of all these oil women makes things difficult, we cannot
ask 40 people to dinner as our rooms would not hold them, we are having our party New Year's Eve & the
Agency at Christmas. I felt gloomy at the prospect. Steele, Worth & the Morrises to dinner, Mah Jong.