IOR/R/15/2/1677

The volume contains correspondence relating to the traffic of private aircraft through the Persian Gulf region. The correspondents include:

• Political Agent at Bahrain;
• Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire;
• British Consulate at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr];
• Government of India, Political and Foreign Departments;
• British Embassy at Baghdad;
• Air Officer Commanding, Hinaidi, Iraq;
• Foreign Office;
• Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf;
• Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain;
• Political Agent, Muscat.

Also included as enclosures are letters from Shaikh Hamad bin Isa al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah], the British Embassy at Alexandria, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, and the French Embassy in London.

The papers cover the British effort to get a general ban on private aircraft flying over or landing in Bahrain and Muscat. Also included are the papers relating to permission for specific flights, including those of the following people:

• Maurice Wilson (British), travelling to India and then Mount Everest;
• R N Chawla (Indian), travelling around the world;
• Lord Sempill (British), travelling to Baghdad;
• Hassan Anis Pasha (Egyptian), travelling around the Arabian Peninsula;
• Amelia Earhart (American), travelling from Karachi to Aden;
• M and Mme Genin (French), travelling to Saigon;
• André Gueit and Jean Laurent (French), travelling to Saigon.

Folios 134-41 are internal office notes.