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7. I enclose, for convenience of reference, in addition to copies of the contract, a
brief resume of the principal articles in the contract.
Copies of this despatch and its enclosures are being sent to the Government of
India and to His Majesty’s High Commissioner for Iraq.
I have, &c.
R. H. CLIVE.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Resume of the Principal Articles m the Agreement concluded between the Junkers
Aviation Company and the Persian Government.
Contract betweeyi the Junkers Company and the Minister of Posts and
Telegraphs on behalf of the Persian Government. ,
THE following are the principal points to be noted :—
Article 1.- -Parliament originally authorised the grant of a monopoly of aviation
to the Junkers Company on the three lines mentioned. We asked Persian Government
for an explanation of this, as it seemed to conflict with Persia’s obligations under the
( International Convention for Aerial Navigation. The Persian Government did not
reply, but the wording is changed in the present contract, which grants only a
monopoly of aerial transport. A note is added that makes it quite clear that Junkers
are given a monopoly of the carriage of passengers and merchandise. That seems to
rule out the possibility of an international line being established by any company but
Junkers along their three routes.
Article 5.—The question of aerodromes is one of those that have been delaying the
signature of the agreement. The War Office objected to their aerodromes being used.
Junkers now agree to maintain their own aerodromes. If Government land is
available they apparently get it rent free; otherwise they have to hire.
Article 8. - The Tehran-Kermanshah-Iraq frontier line is to begin operation one
month after the signature of the contract—about the 5th March. Tehran-Bushire does
not begin until Government asks for it.
Article II gives to the Persian Government the right to decide what passenger
fares shall be.
Article 14.—Weight of postal matter to be carried.
Article 24.—Amount to be paid to the Junkers Company from the total accruing
from the surtax, and
Article 25, the amount of subsidy, are as specified by Parliament.
Article 27 obliges the company to link up one of their Persian lines with an
international line within three months from the date of signature of the agreement.
This will presumably be either with the Russian company at Baku or Imperial Airways
at Bagdad.
Articles 31 to 35 give the conditions on which Junkers will place their pilots and
personnel at the disposal of the War Office in time of war or “ local events.” Personnel
have the option of refusing.
Article 3b.—The aviation school. Junkers apparently set up the school with
necessary machines and material. The Persian Government pays for the upkeep.
Article 39.—I cannot understand what lies behind this desire to form a Persian
commercial aviation concern.
Article 44, regarding Persia’s international obligations, has been recently inserted.
W. A. K. FRASER,
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Contrat du Service aerien.
CONFORMHMENT a la loi du 20 Bahman 1304, egal au 9 f'evrier 1926,
approuv^e par Sa Majeste imperiale le Chah, le l er Esfand 1304, entre le Gouvernement
imperial de Perse, represente par son Excellence Agha Hadji Mirza Ahmed Khan
Atabeki, Ministre des Postes et des Telegraphes de Perse, d’une part, et la Compagnie
J mkers-Flugzeugwerk A.G. a Dessau (Allemagne), reprbsentee par M. Edmond