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and severing any communications between the two. The party travelled in a separate boat; they were to disembark as nearly as possible at the same moment as No. 1 party; at the point marked (2) in the map where a grove of date palms tailed off to the river bank. They were to consist of the Arab Scouts under the Political Officer with one section of the 2/5 Gurkhas under a British Officer. They would dash at full speed and come between the villages of Abdul Hussain and Sultan Manahi and, if fortunate, should reach this place before the inhabitants of Abdul Hussain discovered what was happening.
By the movements of No. 1 and No 2 party the village should be enclosed on all sides; but it seemed most unlikely that the watchful Arabs would wait in their trap until the noose encircled them