"marched into the [illegible] wharf slowly + just as we made for a heavy storm broke & the rain descended steadily for an hour, I stuck to the ship for a time then made a wild rush for a gharry [the St. Eastern Hotel]. While Drum [was riding my turn] onto steamer & our allies in the Indian army engaged in a fist fight over nothing; a friendly probe with a stick hit at hands of one an expecter. They we have civil war inside our own regiments + some of the officers were leaving Calcutta at 8 P.M. & I saw them at the station. One man had served 10 months in France then invalided to India & enroute to Mesopotamia. None of them spoke at length on the german, but all were determined to root them out + conquer.