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Of the sixteen trenches currently in progress, none clearly corroborates the detection carried out. The virgin soil now gives way to rock in the trenches furthest to the W and trench 16 even offers along its entire length a boundary separating the two materials After two days, the new timetable gives full satisfaction as regards the output of the workmen and to the use we make of a long afternoon. The first claim reaches me through the channel of Michael but it seems to be limited to the specialists and in view of the hours-related advantages granted last year, I have neither the wish nor the power to grant any credence to their request. The car still serves as loader, since the generator is definitively out of action. We gain a great deal of quiet from this. The very extensive and many-sided area of obligations leaves no respite; but the collaboration with de Contenson was already very well established and everything works perfectly. Relations with Aitken are likewise on a very friendly footing. Mr and Mrs Schaeffer must have arrived at Beirut today.
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