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SECTION 5.

AVIATION.
i . • ’ 8®r.v\ce Imperial Airways was duplicated from 1st
i A rab Side.
the1 year ^ bl‘wcck^ fll8,lts were carried out without incident throughout
The Royal Air Force carried out several routine flights along the Arab
Coast during the year.
An agreement for a landing ground and petrol store at Abu Dhabi was
concluded with the Shaikh in February and the work was completed in July.
No. 203 (F. 13.) Squadron was transferred from Basra to Aden in
September.
A bomb store was constructed at Sharjah in December.
Iranian Side.—37 private British aviators passed through Bushire
during the year.
French and Dutch.—The Air France maintained their weekly service
throughout the year. The Royal Dutch Air Lines with effect from the I2th
June began a bi-weekly service Eastwards and Westwards as under:—
From Amsterdam to Batavia Friday at 6-25 a.m.
From Batavia to Amsterdam Saturday 3*30 p.m.
From Amsterdam to Batavia Monday 6*45 a.m.
From Batavia to Amsterdam Tuesday 3*00 p.m.
On the 17th July one of their airliners caught fire while taking off on her
journey westward. The plane with her mail was completely destroyed, but
her crew 4 in number and 6 passengers escaped without severe injury.
Miss Kennedy, Principal Matron of the Northern Command, India, who
received head injuries was treated by the Residency Surgeon and was put
up by the Secretary to the Political Resident. Of the rest some were fixed
up in the Residency and some by the Agent of the Imperial Bank of Iran,
Bushire, until a relief air liner arrived here, and they left on the 19th.

SECTION 6.

Political Situation.
fAs a result of the severe disarmament measures carried out by the
Iranian Military officials in Dashtistan, Tangistan, Dashti, and Daliki, a
large number of malefactors fled to the mountains, some in protest against
surrendering their rifles and some to escape the punishment of their
misdeeds. They carried out raids upon villages and caravans killing
villagers and old enemies and ran away with live stock and other property,
to the mountains. Amongst them one Ilaji Muhammad of Abada (a
village in Tangistan) was conspicuous. In the Shib-Kuh region Shaikh
Jabir, a nephew of Shaikh Muhammad bin Alunad Khalfan who was
arrested and sent to Shiraz last year, continued his uncle’s depredations and
generally harassed the peasantry in that area. In April this man was
poisoned through another (Persian) Arab Chief. One hundred of the
Tangistani and Dashti mal-contents were given safe conduct, disarmed,
and allowed to return to their homes. Haji Muhammad was murdered his
son and his brother were killed by some of his men in October, and some
others were decoyed by their enemies into their villages and there shot dead
by them at the instigation of the military authorities. By the end of the
year there remained Ghulam Husain Karam of Tangistan and Abdul
Husain of Kaki (GO miles south of Bushire) with their men who remained
in their mountain fastnesses sallying forth occasionally to raid a village or
a caravan of donkeys carrying grain from one village to another.