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may pay me these £180 on account. This will allow us to subsist, but forces me to stop the area, for Lapierre cannot in any case guarantee me a date for the arrival of the funds. It would be impossible for me to keep the workmen working for two weeks without pay, at the risk of starting a 3o without any concrete promise of funds. Being in Nicosia, I take the opportunity beforehand to see Karageorghis, for Michaël told me yesterday evening that he was henceforth working with the Salamis mission. Karageorghis, who passed the day before, had not even informed me of it, and the procedure seems quite high-handed, as indeed does the absence of scruples of the Lyon mission, whose members all speak Greek, and this for about ten workmen. A rather cool interview; Karageorghis is resolutely allied with the Salamis mission and will return Michaël to us on the arrival of Mr Schaeffer (the Lyon mission will have then finished its 2o short campaign of the year). this would greatly complicate our work, if
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