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Extract J from the Persian Gulf Intelligenoe Report
for the month of October, 1937.
PERSIAN GULP INTELLIGENCE REPORT - OCTOBER 1937. Senior Naval
Officer, Persian Gulf, No. 290/522 of 17th November, 1937.
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Referenea paragraph 21 of Persian Gulf Intel igence
Report fbr September, the new Government have taken steps to
ensure that the Array shall not remain a political force in
the country. Some fifty officers have been weeded out, all
of them known supporters of the late Chief of the General
Staff, and the armed forces have been forbidden to take an
astive part in politics. (R.A.F. Int. Report).
2. The League of Nations has now publicly announced
with regrets, its inability to provide for the settlement
of the Assyrians outside Iraq, and has requested the Iraq
Government to assist in settling them in Iraq as part of
the Iraq people. As this had been foreseen by the majority,
the announcement has been calmly received. (R.A.F. Int.Rpt)
BASRAH
3. Reference Persian Gulf Intelligence Report for July
1937, paragraph 1, all four of these gunboats have now
arrived. The first two have been put into commissi n and
are at Amara. (S.N.O.P.G.)
KHURRAMSHAHR.
4. At the beginning of October a representative of
the Ministry of Agriculture arrived in Khorramshahr to make
enquiries into the possibility of finding a market for
Teheran coal in the Gulf. At a meeting to which he invited
all the managers of foreign shipping concerns in Khorramshahr
and at which he produced samples of Teheran coal, he offered
Gray Mackenzie a sample ton which is to be sent to Bombay
for examination.
It is believed that his visit was the outcome of a
report submitted by the Captain of a Greek ship to the effect
that a codling station for British India ships had been
established at Bahrain. The report stated that the Bahrain
coal was of pfor quality. (Vice Consul Khorramshahr).
It is assumed that this refers to the recent sale oj
Admiralty coal at Bahrain. (S.N.O.P.G).
KUWAIT
5. Air mail service for Kuwait. During the first
fortnight in October the land machines of the main eastbound
and westbound services of Imperial Airways were replaced by
flying boats. These boats do not call at Kuwait. Duplicate
eastbound and westbound services call at Kuwait as usual.
(Kuwait Int. Report).
6. Sauu.i Arabia. Ibn Baud moved into camp at Hamah
Wells on 6th October and proposes to remain there till 1st
November. Ramah, wijich is at the junction of the Kuwait and
Hasa car tracks, is a usual camping ground for the King and
His family at this time of year. (Kuwait Int. Report).