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direct from the local Governorate to whom their cases were referred. The
remaining three were from Aden and Zanzibar.
As the local authorities contended that these slaves were not Persian sub
jects, British papers were furnished to them under the orders, of the Hon’ble the
Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Lingah. —Five refugee slaves applied at the Consular Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for manumis
sion and three others had been awaiting the disposal of their cases from the
previous years.
One of the former, a Swahili, was, granted a Certificate of Manumission
which was sent to the Consular Agent, the remaining four grew impatient and left
the port and did not present themselves again at the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
Aviation.
Movements of Air Craft.
Bandar Abbas. —Twenty-one air craft including fifteen under British
Colours, four Dutch and two French called here during the year.
British. —Of these, twelve were Victoria machines of the Royal Air Force,
that alighted on the aerodrome on their outward and homeward flights from
Baghdad to India and back for the evacuation of the Foreign Legations at
Kabul.
The remaining three comprised (u) A Vickers Vellore monoplane with
Flying Officer Moir, on his flight from London to Australia, (b) The Fokker
monoplane called 4 4 The Southern Cross ’ ’ in command of Captain Kings,ford
Smith in his attempt to establish a record flight between Sydney and England
and (c) a Fokker monoplane conveying the American millionaire Mr. Van Lear
Black to the Far East.
j) u tch. —Two Fokker monoplanes belonging to the Royal Dutch Airways
engaged on an experimental air mail service passed through, flying from
Amsterdam to Batavia and vice versa.
Two flying boats of the Royal Netherlands Navy bound for the Dutch East
Indies that touched at Henjam in May, came on here to re-fuel.
French. —A Farman Biplane with two French aviators flying from Paris
to Safcgon and back halted on both her trips to re-fuel.
One Victoria Aeroplane of the Royal Air Force Kabul Flight (J. 8929) under
the Command of Squadron Leader Brownsdon-Rice, on her return flight from
India was forced to land at Bunder Galag near the river Rapch, 90 miles East of
Jask, and had eventually to be abandoned and destroyed.
Hen jam. —Two Southampton Flying Boats of the Royal Air Force under the
Command of Air Commandore Barnett alighted on the 9th May, proceeded to
Muscat and returned with the Hon’ble the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
on board, whom they eventually conveyed to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Bahrain.
Lingah. —Since the inauguration in April of the Air Mail Service from
England to Karachi, liners of the Imperial Airways alight at Lingah to re-fuel,
both on their Eastward and Westward bound flights.
The weekly service opened with the arrival on the 5th April from London
of the 44 City of Jerusalem ” having Air Vice Marshal Sir Vyabe Vyvyan as a
passenger.
The first Westward bound liner the 44 City of Baghdad ” arrived from
Karachi on the 8th April with Lord Chetwynd, Chairman of the Imperial Air
ways, Limited, the Hon’ble Miss Chetwynd, Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond,
Air Vice-Marshal Sir V. Vyvyan on board. Amongst other aircrafts that landed
on the aerodrome might be mentioned (1) Two Junker monoplanes flying from
Bushire to Jask and vice versa, conveying Sartip Mirza Ahmed Khan, the
Persian Air Minister, (2) the Avroavian biplane 44 Amoy ” (No. X-CRIA) with
s the Chinese aviator Wen Lin Tchen and a Danish Mechanic Johannsen, flying
from Croydon to Nanking, and (3) a De Havilland Moth with Mrs. Cleaver and
Captain Drew flying from England to India.
Visits of His Majesty's Ships.
Bandar Abbas .— Owing to the difficulties raised by the local authorities in
respect of quarantine and passport formalities and their disinclination to permit
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