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1935

Saturday [24th November]

The Shoreham came to take Loch & Holmes down the Trucial Coast. The SNO & the doctor came to call, &
disturbed me as I was in court. The ship left almost at once. In court most of the morning. the butchers all
went on strike, ordered the Bcladfa to take over the meat and sell it, a good deal of excitment, they are a
bolshii lot & always giving trouble, this is part of the general agitation which is being stirred up by some of
the Baharna & especially directed against Shaikh Sulman. They all dislike him very much. Went out for a
party at the Nix's house in the new camp. Met the Shaikh on the way. He had sent a message which I never
got asking me to meet him there. Sat in his car & talked for some time about butchers, land & other things,
then motored on to the old camp to call on Mrs Thompson & then to the Nix's house. There were about 60
people, English & Americans, I never saw such a lot of white people together in Bahrain. It was the usual