'File 6/7 I Kuwait landing ground' [‎148r] (300/524)

(Received under India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. endorsement No.P .t.4342/1934
V dated the 3rd August 1934.)
Copy.
S ecret .
Air Ministry reference
(S.31084/Pt.II.9 *0.1•)
air liinistry
Adastral House,
Kingsway,W.0.2
My dear Laithwaite^'
-i wild^vou t)lease refer to Colonel Howie’s despatch
No under cover of which he forwarded
correspwidence relating to the Kuwait Civil Air Agreement.
8. in paragraph 6 of ^f^^ine^Hfat StT
+ 1 -,^+ niir. offer for an option on the quaranuiiic.
should he raised from £100 to £120 p.a. ^s^the T^asury
authority allowing us to make ^ 0 r fo> the reservation
Ministry to pay a sum of ^out £ 100 a year tiations t0
of the site we will certain ^ T annum if the
fall through °^ t f c |i a H e nt'consider it necessary to offer "he
Resident and ?o_i .icaijve-- can the Resident
higher figure. Kiat nav"£120 per an-um for reservation
that we will be prepared t ° P a ^ ^f^eviously agreed between
of the quarantine site on the terms of 24 th ,
us in correspondence ending with my let ,er b.Jie ^1 _
April 1934. b f-Mli*
3. ^ far - paragraphs 4-6 of etter
and paragraphs ?. -4 olon, _o difference between the
the latter explains very cx-ar v
position at Bahrain and Kuwait.
4. Kuwait is obviously mu ^\^ re i n 1 fact t beenliven
R.A.F.assistance th ^ ^^^Q^occasion, and’, therefore, _
such assistance on me +hc Merest of the Shaikh of Kuv/ait
established in his territory.
5. Moreover, there ^ a^further that the
has not been mentioned by the t than the civil
civil base at Bahrain is ra0 ^“^ e w ^ provide less traffic
landing ground at Kuwait. Kuwait wail I^ will
than Bahrain and ° w bng to its, P-o.- 1a ^ t ^ place. That being
probably be used collected at Kuwait in respect ox
so a smaller sum willbe Col^e . thel§S g t he Shaikh of
landing fees than_ at Batoain.but^ in respect
the former place is be ^f + p a g the shaikhs of Bahrain and Gwadur
of the civil an* agreement +>p qh^ikh has any grievance
fe certainly do not ^ 0 ^ s ^ e ^ 0 ^ e i Fo wle, that full use might
and agree, as suggested J Col ^ ar nts when an
be made by the Political ys.i.
opportunity presents iwse-■.
+ ^ ■Kir Pol one 1 Fowle, in paragraph
6. If, ® s . su ff® S gvaikh proposes' charging duty on
5 of his despatch, the shai pro^^ will have t0 De dealt
R.A.F. fuel, we agree that ^ d it as important than the
with on its merits, but we regale a- A±v/
G.Laithwaite Fsq., #
Indi
Office,
Whitehall ,S .W .1.