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2. The Sheikh called onboard immediately on "Bideford 1 8'
arrival at Kalba at 0910 on Monday the 1st March 1937, the
customary salute being fired on his departure* I returned
his call shortly afterwards*
The construction of the iimergency Landing Ground for
Imperial Airways having been completed. Lieutenant J.A.Hasler,
Royal Engineers, one Royal Atr Force rating, and one
Interpreter were embarked for passage to Bahrain* A shelter
for passengers and a petrol store have been erected at Kalba*
3. w Bideford ,, left Kalba at 1900 the same day.
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Khor Kuwai, 2nd Marflh .
Just before sailing NASIR BIN SALIM, a slave manumitted
in 1933, reported onboard and asked for assistance in
obtaining the release of his brother who had been arrested
at Henjam and this formed the subject of a separate report,
my No*3102/3 dated 6th March 1937 addressed to The Political
Agent, Bahrain (copies to The Senior Naval Officer, Persian
Gulf)* The matter was dealt with by the Political Agent
at Bahrain and the man is being embarked in ’’Deptford” for
passage back to Khor Kuwai*
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19. Considerable inconvenience is being caused to the
A.I.O.C. by the regulation that all their Iranian employees are
to be registered - including a photograph. Captain Bayendor
has been instructed to carry this out and he has asked for 200
a day to be sent to Khorammshahr* By sending a larger number
the Company anticipate that the organization will fail and will
get tired of it first !
It is reported that, in future, all employees of the
Company will have to be engaged through the Iranian authorities
at the Khorammshahr base.
Great training activity was evident in the base;
Squad drill, which was going on when I called at 0930, was still
in progress until sunset*
Information from Abadan indicates that the
negotiations between Iraq and Iran over the allocation to the
latter of certain anchorages and later, possibly, the turning
over to them of half the River have reached a more advanced
stage and developments may soon be expected.
20. Should the A.I.O.C. develop their loading facilities
it is understood that jetties will be built in the Kasba Reach
one mile above Pao. 21
21. The drilling of the first oil well of the Kuwait Oil
Company has now reached a critical stage and oil has been found,
though up to now it is not known if it is in commercial (jiaitities.
Their complement of white employees is now over 60.
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