bear in the top left-hand corner the “Air Mail” label obtainable at any head or branch post office, and be clearly marked immediately below it “Cairo-Baghdad.” Parcels and insured packets are not admitted. The next CairoBaghdad Air Mail will be despatched from London on Thursday evening, November 17. <Flight 10 November 1921> November 1921 Extract from Confidential Summary of news received by His Majesty’s Political Residency in the Persian Gulf: “MOHAMMERAH: The Persian Post Office have reduced their rate for Foreign letters to 12 Shahis. It is understood that this has been done to induce the public to send their letters through the Persian Post.” File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [186r] (386/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) December 1921 Extract from Confidential Summary of news received by His Majesty’s Political Residency in the Persian Gulf: “The British India Steam Navigation Company’s Agents have received instructions to deliver mailbags for the Persian Post Office direct to them on landing and also to take delivery direct, and not as in the past through the British Post Office. This arrangement is to come into force on the 1st January 1922.” File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [183r] (380/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) 1922 1 January 1922 Extract from Confidential Summary of news received by His Majesty’s Political Residency in the Persian Gulf: “Postal bags have been delivered direct by the British India Agency to the Persian Postal authorities and vice-versa from the 1st January 1922.” File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [175r] (364/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) 1 May 1922 The work of disarming Germany in the air is ended, according to a correspondent of the London Daily Mail. All but twenty of the British, French, Italian, Belgian and Japanese officers, who have worked under General Masterman on the Inter-Allied Commission of Aeronautical Control, have left Germany. On May 5 the Commission will cease to exist. Since January, 1920, when General Masterman arrived in Germany, the Commission has destroyed 14,800 airplanes. Of 29,500 engines dealt with, some have been handed over to the Allies, but most of them have been destroyed. Six air ships have been handed over to the Allies. The work of the Commission has been done under great difficulties; never before had the work of disarming a nation been undertaken. When General Masterman demanded a list of places where sheds, works, and airplanes were to be found, the authorities declared that the papers had been lost during the revolution. Only little by little was the necessary information collected. General Masterman's work is ended, but the control of civil aviation in Germany is to continue. The Council of Ambassadors has not yet published the regulations to be imposed. It is certain that there will be a small permanent Commission with the right of inspection to see that manufacture is carried out within the lines to be prescribed for future German aircraft. <Aviation Week 1 May 1922>
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