خارجي ٦٠٩/٤٨ "نشرات شهرية للملحق الجوي المدني في الشرق الأوسط (ديسمبر ١٩٤٧، يناير ١٩٤٨)" [و‎‎١‎٠] (٧٨/١٩)

(b) Referring to Ethiopia paragraph iCb) of last month’s Newsletter,
the Sudan G-ovemment has granted. E.A.L- Freedoms 1 to 4 at Ganibcila
and Malakal for a once ■'weekly Addis Ataha-jimma. -Gambeila-Malakal
service, and the Ethiopian government have agreed to grant Sudan
Air./ays reciprocal riglits. E.A.L. made a preliminary survey flight
along this route on 8 th January. The first scheduled service was to
have ‘been flown on 19th January and thereafter ev..ry Monday following,
hut due to Ethiopian custans complications the service has not yet
started. The difficulty is that the Ethiopian officials cannot
clear the aircraft returning to Ethiopia at Gambeila, since the airfield
is in the Enclave, and there is nobody competent to do so at either
G-ore or jimma. This difficulty is now under discussion. As regards
the payment oi Sudan customs dues, E.A.L. have discussed this question
at Malakal and hope to establish a customs post there which should
obviate the difficulty, since they do not anticipate that any dutiable
freight or baggage would normally be discharged at Gambeila. E.A.L*
have decided to land at G-ambeila on oh flight, and not only during the
dry season as was hitherto intended; this change of plan is due to
customs and immigration requirements. The Sudanese welcome the
scheduled stop at Gambeila, since it provides regular communication
between Gambeila and Malakal, which is the main attraction to the
Sudanese on this route. The service will be operated with 0*47 Dakotas.
6 . PEARCE PROTECT.
por information under this heading see MIDDLE EAST GSEERAL under
ADEN in this Newsletter. l{r, R. pcarce is an American now employed
by E.A.L. Hi s project is to initiate an air charter company based
on Aden.
SU LTAN AIR./AYS,
The puke of Harar has stopped all air traffic inside his own
province by putting a tax of one Ethiopian dollar (lo dollars ~£l
sterling) per kilo on all freight. Most Ethiopian qat and coffoo comes
from parar so tho puke visualises a freight monopoly in these canmodities.
Q - 0 C UPI5D TERRITORIES
LYPAA, ERITR E A, BRITISH aND ITAUA N SOi.lALILAND
!• I IJEAN CiLkEER iLIGJAS TC OCCU PIED TERR ITORY.'
The Government of India Ixave been informed that any application
for a charter flight from India to British occupied Territories should
be submitted through the High commissioner for India in London to the
Ministry of civil Aviation.
2. AIR BASES IN C YRHNA ICA^
The following is an extract from THE EGYPTIAN MAIL of 24 th January. _
"Representatives of Britain and the united states have discussed in London
tentative plans for the setting up of a chain of Anglo-American tactical
air bases in cyrenaica, North Africa... The new bases, observers consider
would probably be smaller than the Air Transport ccmi iand base which the
United States is reopening at Mdlaha, near Tripoli. Tho future of any
bases planned ■'./ill, of course, be subject to decisions on the future of former
Italian colonies. Air bases in Qyrenaica, even though temporary, would be
useful in maintaining /.nglo-American control of tho Eastern Mediterranean
and approaches to oil supplies in the Middle East after the evacuation of
Palestine and pending the setting up by Britain of a morc permanent base in
East Africa”.
OCCUPIED TEPRITOPJAS, para. 3/...