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(iii) Convention of judicial assistance in connexion with civil and commercial
matters.
(iv) Extradition treaty and judicial assistance in connexion with penal
questions.
(v) Agreement to regulate the working of the Turco-Iran custom-houses to
be established at the frontier.
(vi) Special agreement concerning the establishment of certain telegraph and
telephonic lines.
(vii) Convention concerning aerial navigation.
(viii) Agreement with the view to facilitating and strengthening transit trade
and transport of goods by Trebizond-Tabriz-Tehran route, and
vice versa.
(ix) Veterinary Convention.
(x) Treaty of Commerce and Navigation.
5. Trans-Iranian Railway.
According to a press report, the railway track has reached Robot Karim,
situated about 42 kilom. from Tehran on the southern section of the Trans-Iranian
Railway.
6. Iranian A ir Force.
(i) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 7 (current), paragraph 4 (ii). One
of the machines (No. 453) crashed en route, the pilot being seriously hurt.
Colonel Bever, Belgian air adviser, accompanied by two officers of the Iranian Air
Force, proceeded to Meshed direct to hold an enquiry into the cause of the
accident.
It is understood that the machine was completely wrecked and has been
written off.
(ii) Mr. Jones, of De Havilland Aircraft Company (Limited), arrived in
Tehran during the month for service with the Iranian Air Force. His contract
is for one year.
(iii) Messrs. F. P. Peters and A. Higgs, aero-draftsman and inspector of
aircraft respectively for Hawker Aircraft (Limited), are leaving Tehran to-day
for the United Kingdom on expiration of their contract with the Iranian
Air Force.
The Iranian Government have already applied to Hawker Aircraft (Limited)
for two men with similar qualifications to replace them.
(iv) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 3 (ii) of 1936. The petrol storage
tanks at Mehrabad and Qila Murgha military aerodromes have been found to be
leaking badly.
7. Security.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 7 (current), paragraph 6 (i). A further
sixteen families, consisting of fifty-seven men, women and children, are reported
to have migrated from Iran to British Mekran.
8. Travellers — British.
A report from Kerman states that a Mr. Allen Pendlebury, holder of Foreign
Office Passport No. 107140, dated London, the 12th May, 1933, profession shown
as shopkeeper, cycling from England to Australia, arrived at Kerman via Yezd
on the 29th March. He left London on the 10th August, 1936, and has cycled
over 9.000 miles. His route was Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland,
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Sicily, then via Malta to
Egypt by boat, from Egypt to Palestine, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan and Iraq. At present he
is a patient in the Church Missionary Hospital suffering from dysentery.
C. H. SUMMFRHAYES.
(Acting for military attache.)
Tehran, Afril 24, 1937.