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Wiii you please refer uo your Lxprees Letter llo.601-£,
drted the 17th Kovembtr iy38, on the above subject.
-• The will WcMit more iana in Ifeiharraq adjoining
their present aerocironiti in order to construct quarters, v/ork-
shops^ hangars, etcetera* Colonel Clarke, Chief Engineer,
Eabbinlyeii, caae do«n here a short ti»t ago in order to mUce
a pzellainary selec&ion of the area zo be acquired for this
purpose* He picked a strip to the east of the aerodrome
about 864 ieet by 4100 feet, vdiich is marked A in the attachec
very rough ^skel-ch* liie difficulty here is "Chat this brings
the H.ii.F# boundary to within 400 f-et of Shaikh Abdullah bin
'Isa^ house and includes a small ^seaside house" which he has
already built* I should anticipate therefore that Shaikh
Abdullah would object very strongly, for he would lose his
small house and all the tuiUF* buildings would be on this add
itional strip, right up against his big house.
3* O j . course no official communication has yet been receiv
ed, aad x presume chat In due course instructions yrill come
froa. the Secretary of State to acquire the additional land
required; but at this stage it is desirable to make a prelimin*-
ary selection of the most appropriate area. For the reasons
stated above the area A is not suitable, for it is obviously
undesirable that H.A.F. expansion in Bahrain should result in
giving oifence to 'bout the most important m^n in the place.
TiiC R.A• F. buildings cannot be located either to the north or
south of their presenc land, since the prevailing wind here is
north/
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The Honourable I»leut.-Colonel
Sir Trenchard Fowle, ^
Political Hesident j
BUSHIRi.
C.B.E.,
the Persian Gulf;