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a pilot. At 11 a.m. we dropped anchor, at 2.30 p.m. hove up anchor & proceeded to Alexandria dock. The Katoomba arrived the same day at 6 a.m. & the Canberra at 4 p.m. yesterday. At 4 p.m. we discharged our troops & prisnors of war. We found that severe rioting had occured at different parts of India, Lahore, Calcutta & Bombay. At the 1st mentioned place 30 Europeans were killed by the natives & 1000 natives were killed by the British troops whilst putting an end to the rebellion. At Bombay we were advised to keep away from the native quarters & to avoid being about the city at night. British troops with machine guns & armoured cars stationed at various points. The cause of the trouble being high cost of living, strikes & political reasons in which several were shot, hung & transported & imprisoned for life.
Sunday April 27
We went ashore & visited the gardens & muesuem it being very warm the city being rather busy, very few Europeans about & the streets rather on the clean side also the numerous small shops. Far cleaner than Salonika, Egypt or Taranto, Italy.
28.4.19
Left the dock at 10 a.m. & anchored 3 miles out & commenced to discharge our sand ballast 1100 tons which has been distrubited in the different holds for the past 18 months, one of the methods to ease the concussion & damage done in the event of being torpedoed. The Indian labor worked very slow & the European foremen informed us to be