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Fazle Umar 336 sites of Baalbek. From Beirut he travelled onto Switzerland via Athens and Rome. He sought treatment from a homoeopathic doctor in Zurich and the same day he asked Hadhrat Chaudhry Muhammad Zafrulla Khan to oversee the building work on the new mosque in Holland. In the same month he wrote to the Nazir Aa’la, Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya instructing him to plant trees throughout Rabwah. He stated: “It is necessary to plant as many trees as possible in Rabwah for the well being of its inhabitants. Trees cannot survive without water…the existing tube wells ought to be serviced. Moreover, it would be better to upgrade with electric engines so that output can be maximised ensuring the trees already planted do not dry up. It is also important to establish other tube wells as soon as possible… ten or fifteen times more trees than we have now or even more than this should be planted. Electricity has now made the job very easy. ” He was examined very thoroughly by top experts in Zurich, Hamburg and London with such assistance as could be drawn from X-ray impressions, etc. , and the unanimous conclusion was that the point of the knife had broken at the jugular vein and was embedded in it. The expert advice was that no attempt should be made to extract it, as the risk to his life involved in any such operation was too serious to be worth taking. It was hoped the pressure on the vein and the consequent effect on the nervous system might be slowly eased and the patient be able to resume his activities at a reduced tempo. He was advised to adopt a restful pattern of life and to avoid hard work and long periods of sustained labour. For a person of his temperament and high capacities this was a disappointing prospect. But there was no help for it. He was still able to carry on a comparatively active life, but the pressure on his nervous system, instead of being eased with the passage of time, tended to be intensified progressively. During his visit Huzur inspected the various missions in Europe and held a confer-