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'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters' [207r] (426/506)
The record is made up of 1 volume (248 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1926-24 Dec 1931. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers.
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come back the next morning for another telle. They said I
would be welcomed, and we went back to the ship leaving
behind us a bag of rice as 'ground bait 1 .
8. Next morning I landed again at Uirm Rasas, and had
another meeting with the community. While on tte previous
evening the attitude of some of the Islanders had been
somewhat reserved they were now all extremely friendly,
but the Headmen gave the same reply as before. Without
stressing the matter unduly, which would merely have given
them an exaggerated idea of the importance of themselves
and their island, I did my best to talk them over, again
hinting that they would not be losers by the transaction,
but without success. They did not enquire how much we would
be prepared to give for the concession, and so I saw no
advantage - and some disadvantages - in coming down to the
details sanctioned in Air Offi. C e r Commanding , s telegram No.
Z.410 of 20th March.
9. Both Commander Startin and I agreed that friendly
relations with the local inhabitants would bs still
further advanced if they paid a return visit to the ship,
and on behalf of the Commander I issued an invitation to as
many as liked to come to visit the ship, where any of them
who required medical treatment would receive it. (I had
issued a similar invitation the previous' afternnom) Some
hesitated, but finally no one would come. I said that both
Commander Startin's and my feelings were,much hurt (1) by
this display of suspicion. Did they Imagine that after
drinking 'their cogfee and eating their dates we mre going
to lure them on board and then kidnap themt They protested
that no such thought had entered their heads, and some of
them informed me privately that the reason why they refused
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This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bushire, Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat; officials in the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. and the Government of India; the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; officials of the Air Ministry, London; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, the Adviser to the Bahrain Government; RAF (Royal Air Force) officials at the Iraq Command; the High Commissioner of Iraq at Baghdad; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and members of No. 203 Squadron RAF.
The correspondence concerns the establishment of an air route along the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; seaplane reconnaisance missions in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. carried out by No. 203 Squadron RAF; the construction of landing grounds, seaplane anchorages and refuelling stations at various locations along the Arabian littoral of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , including Kuwait, al-Ḥasā’, Bahrain, Qatar, Ṣīr Banī Yās, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwayn, Ra's al-Khaymah, Muscat and Maṣīrah island.
Also included within these papers are:
- Sketch map of northern Bahrain depicting Manamah and Sitrah Island (f. 85);
- Notes by the Air Staff on the Regulations of Air Control in Undeveloped Countries, dated 21 November 1928 (f. 65);
- Plan Showing Landing Ground in Bahrein (f. 108B);
- Details of Air Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond's 1929 air journey to India;
- Details of Under-Secretary of State for Air Sir Philip Sassoon's 1931-32 air journey to India.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (248 folios)
- Arrangement
This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled and can be found in the top right of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Title
- 'File 7/4 Aviation and Air Force Matters'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:22v, 22ar:22av, 23r:76v, 78v:84v, 86r:107v, 108ar:108av, 109r:118v, 121v:122v, 124v:163v, 163ar:163av, 164r:198v, 198ar:198av, 199r:246v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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