"ملف ١/٦ I الطيران - الخطوط الجوية الإمبراطورية" [و‎‎١‎٠] (٤١٦/٣٤)

No* /£>£* Political Agency, Kuwait.
Dated the 20th Jamad Auwal 1351»
21st September 1932.
To
H. E. the Ruler of Kuwait,
Kuwai t»
After compliments.
Reference the conversation which I had with
Your Excellency on Saturday 17th September 1932 regarding the
question of landing fees being charged on Machines belonging to
Imperial Airways Ltd., which visit Kuwait.
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2. I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that
the Hon’ble the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf has
directed me to explain to Your Excellency that the Management
of Imperial Airways have generously agreed as a result of Your
Excellency^ express representations and wishes in the matter,to
allow their Mail aeroplanes to call at Kuwait if inducement
offers and conditions permit, that is to say if there are any
travellers desirous of leaving or arriving at Kuwait by Air.
3. For this purpose they propose to employ an Agent
at Kuwait whose duty it will be to warn the Company’s represent
ative at Basrah (or Bahrain) by telegram, so that necessary
accommodation can be reserved beforehand for intending passengers
from Kuwait, and in order that pilots can be told to land at
Kuwait.
As the Company have gone out of their way to meet
Your Excellency’s wishes in this matter, especially as from their
piont of view a landing at Kuwait, a port so close to Basrah, is
likely to entail delay, the Hon’ble the Political Resident trusts
that Your Excellency will reciprocate their good intentions, and
make no charges in the way of landing fees, as is done on the
Persian
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