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United States of America.
64. As already mentioned in paragraph 12, Mr. Twitchell is expected to
return in October with six American prospectors. It is understood that the
5|Iejazi Government have managed to remit £300 for their passages,
when they arrive and begin work they will no doubt expect something
in the way of salary. It is a pity that there is no American representative here
to help them to get it.
Turkey.
65. The Turkish Charge d'Alfaires at dedda, Abdul Ghani Seni Bey, left
finally on the 30th July for Angora, where he was to be made head of the Arabian
section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No successor had arrived by the end
of August.
IV.—Am Matters.
Hejaz Air Force.
66. Messrs. Morris and North finally got away on the 18th July (see May-
June report, paragraph 57). Orders to pay them their arrears and passage money
had apparently been given from Mecca on about the 20th June, but no trace of
them could be discovered in Jedda until the end of the month. A further fort
night was required to find the £500 in golden sovereigns and bankers’ credits,
without which Messrs. Morris and North declined to leave the country.
67. There only remained Mr. Lowe. He was shocked to find one morning
in July that the aerodrome guard had orders to refuse him admittance. This he
attributed to base intrigue by the German Krakowsky (see May-June report,
paragraph 55), and came to pour out his woes to the Legation. He was told that
having taken service under a foreign Government and played his own game, he
must make the best of its ways and the rules, but that if on a straight issue he
was being unjustly treated as regards contractual conditions such as pay, he
would be given a reasonable measure of assistance as a British subject. He
returned at the end of the month to ask for a loan of £10, but as it was found that
he had made no real effort to obtain arrears amounting to some £150 due to him,
he was advised to take all possible steps himself, before throwing himself on the
Legation’s assistance. The Hejazi Government informed him on the 8th August
that they did not wish to renew his contract and that he could take the terminal
leave due to him on the 15th August. The miserable specimen at once yearned
to re-enter their service, and at the end of the month signed a clandestine contract
with the Turkish corporal who acts as Hejazi Director-General of Military
Affairs, binding himself to impossible terms for a further twelvemonth. He was
eventually got rid of in September—a matter for the next report.
68. The Hejazi proposals for the reorganisation of their air force personnel
having received His Majesty's Government’s consideration (see May-June
report, paragraph 56) His Majesty’s Minister conveyed to them the Air Ministry’s
views in a memorandum dated the 7th July. No reply was received by the end
of August.
Arabian Air Route.
69. In the House of Lords debate of the 23rd June on air communications
with the East, the Under-Secretary of State for Air said : Meanwhile, we are
pushing on with the examination of an alternative route along the southern coast
of the Persian Gulf, that is, along the Arabian coast This is being actively
explored. Both land and marine aircraft of the Royal Air Force have been
making flights of increasing frequency from Basra to Muscat, thus acting as
pioneers for ultimate civil development.”
70. On the 7th July His Majesty’s Minister tackled Fuad Bey Hamza in
regard to the exact meaning of the last sentence of the Hejazi memorandum of
the 18th June (see May-June report, paragraph 60). His reply showed clearly