"ملف 13/4 III: تسهيلات لشركات أجنبية باستخدام مسار عربي" [و‎‎٣‎٩] (١٤٤/٧٧)

Telegram I.D.V
From
Political Resident, Bushire
To
Government of India, New Delhi.
Repeated Secretary of State for India, London
Minstate, Cairo, for Prior.
Copy to Air Officer Commanding, Habbaniyah.
No. 1100
Dated 10th June 1942
Reference my telegram No. T/273 April 13th.
2. Jackson reports from Salala on June 6th that four
Pan American Airways personnel have arrived there. They
state that they have come to establish a staging post for
a Pan American Airways service between Khartoum and Karachi,
that more of their men are expected within a few days
with wireless equipment, that their aircraft carry U.S.
Army markings, that they have not come under the auspices
of the Royal Air Force or British Overseas Airways Cor
poration, that they expect to Carr y private passengers if
bookings of government priority passages permit it and that
they wish to negotiate with Sultan for a camp site, local
labour and supply of privisions.
3. Sultan is insisting that these Pan American Airways
personnel should undertake to be associated with the Royal
Air Force and to be bound by his rules for the Royal Air
Force c.f. my telegram No. 304 February 15th (to Government
of India only). Failing this he proposes to ask personnel
to explain their presence. When Jackson write he (Jackson)
was concluding with the personnel an agreement that they
should vis a vis the State be regarded as the R.A.F. until
their status is defined.
4. Sultan has intimated that he would in any case like
to reserve his right of jurisdiction over these Americans.
- 'lutj-
Jackson is of opinion that Sultan would be pleased
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