"ملف ١/٦ I الطيران - الخطوط الجوية الإمبراطورية" [و‎‎٦‎٠] (٤١٦/١٣٤)

No. 10
Political Agency, Kuwait.
Dated the 9th January 1933
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From
To
Lieutenant-Colonel H.R.P.Dickson, C.I.E.?
Political Agent, Kuwait.
The Manager,
The Mesopotamia Persia Corporation, Ltd.,
Basrah.
Failure of Westbound Air oraft to land
malls. A (> 0
Sir,
In continuation of my telegram No.l dated the
6 th January 1933 to your address, I have the honour to inform you
that in addition to His Excellency the Shaikh and the public of
Kuwait, I had officially intimated to His Excellency the Naval
Commander-in-Chlef, East India Squadron and the Senior Naval
Officer, Persian Gulf, whose ships were all lying at anchor
at Kuwait from Snd to the 6 th of January, that Kuwait had now
become a regular port of call for the East and v/estbound Air
first
mail and that the/Westbound w Air mail” would leave Kuwait on
Sth January. A> S 0
2 . I did this not only on the authority of your
letter No.D.0./621 dated the 16th December 1932, but oh the
strength of a communication which the local Post Office had
received from the Director General of Posts and Telegraphs,
Baghdad, who had also been informed , and had been in communic
ation with London and India on the subject.
X very much regret to say that the /festbound
air mail of the 5th January, passed over Kuwait, but made no
attempt to land and take the large mail that was awaiting it.