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25.3.19
Fine & glorious weather still prevails. We eased down to 14 knots so as to be in & off Port Said mine field at 6 a.m. daylight tomorrow. News by wireless throughout of mines drifting about the Mediterean & of General Allanby having come across to Malta from Marseilles in a British destroyer & then transfered to the fast Scout destroyer Caradoc which will convey him to Port Said from Malta at an average speed of 40 knots per hour.
26.3.19
At 7 a.m. arrived at Port Said. Found the latest type of British destroyer there the Carlise [?Carlisle] a 40 knot destroyer about 4000 tons displacement. Great rioting at Egypt especially Cairo & Port Said, several British soldiers killed, a Colonel & 8 officers, a train held up, the lines near Cairo torn up, the train full of soldiers & sisters unarmed held up by 2000 Arabs. Indians went to the rescue, 3 sisters killed & 3 missing some sent down in a boat under escort of Indians on the Nile by boat. At Port Said British tommies used machine guns in the streets in which 20 Egyptian stutents were killed & 40 wounded. Much looting & damage done at Cairo & the vincinity. All demobilision stopped. The Australian Light horse sent up the line. The rioters given 24 hours notice to deliver up 2 of the missing sisters, the 3rd one having been found. Speaking to some of the Australian Light horse they stated that the 2 missing sisters are Australians & if they do not come to light within the specified time there will be serious trouble. The British troops are very wrathful re the missing sisters & also their leave & demobilision being stopped.