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enter the field, and upset the whole carefully built up
apple cart, just before the Kuwait Oil Company got their
concession* On these occasions I as P. xl . ought to have been
anywhere, but where I was - spending my whole time decypherlng
and encyphering lengthy and more often than not unnecessary
telegrams•
Oftei. too, while still struggling to decypher
messages, further messages ij&rked important or priority, would
arrive, asking why I had not replied to points of the telegram
I was still trying to decypher - truly a pathetic state of
affairs* Of course chaos often resulted,!, the P.ii.. , got
rattled, and G-overnnent did not get the best of their nan
on the spot, or even properly considered answers at times.
In actual fact, I always got my wife to come to
my rescue and I even trained little ^ahra (11 years old)
to assist - the latter became quite proficient latterly in
every kind of Cypher as well as in typing them out-
You, however, have not ot a wife and child and I
makitain that turning ones wife and child into G-overniier.t
Cypher Clerks is decidedly wrong in principle, nor is it
fair to use them for many hours on end on such vork, as
I hove been obliged to do at times Just to keep the show
from breaking down*
It is quite true th£ t I asked for and was iven
permission to make use of the ^uarmtine liedi cal Officer
(Greenwa:) for Cypher work, but a he has had to meet on
an aver" e 3 steamers weekly as v/ell as 4 Xiiperial airways
planes, and on top of all /inc. time to do the work of the
Charitable Dispensary, I foun«. in practice that he as
never available when he was wanted "?or my work*
As you know it is a day's journey to get out to
steamers here and he could not be lightly taken from
% uaranti ne wo rk *
Greenway then can be eliminated thereio-'e, for
he has not the time to give assistance of any practical