The Director of Persian Post Offices in Arabistan has notified that letters, etc., will be accepted for Kermanshah, Tehran, Gailan, Azerbayajan, Mazandaran and Khurasan via Mesopotamia. There will be two despatches a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays, but the exact hour of despatch has not yet been fixed.” “BUSHIRE: Mirza Ahmed Khan Paju, a notorious anti-British agitator, is reported to have been dismissed from his office as assistant to the Persian postmaster. The postal authorities are believed to be endeavouring to replace their present employes by a new establishment from Tehran, doubtless in preparation for taking over the Gulf offices in April, but so far not much progress has been made in this respect.” File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [108r] (230/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) 6 February 1923 Deutscher Aero Lloyd Aktien Gesellschaft formed. 12 April 1923 Memo from Indo-European Telegraph Department: “The Director at Karachi reports that the British Post Offices at Charbar, Jask and Henjam were closed on the 12th April last and that Persian Post Offices in charge of employees of the IndoEuropean Telegraph Department were opened on the same date.” File 897/1912 Pt 4 ‘Persan Gulf: British post offices’ [46r] (96/476) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) A Junkers J13 (factory number 590) arrived at Tehran, with the object of examining facilities for extension of mail and passenger service to Caucasus and Persia. Believed to be German built and owned by Russian German company which operate already between Berlin and Moscow. <L PS 11 232 1435> 14 April 1923 Extract from Confidential Summary of news received by His Majesty’s Political Residency in the Persian Gulf: “BUSHIRE: The British Indian post office handed over charge to the Persian postal authorities on the 14th April.” File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [102v] (219/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) 23 April 1923 “Aviation Week” reports- “An air transport company with a capital of 800,000 gold rubles was recently created in Tiflis, Caucasian Republic. According to newspaper dispatches this enterprise was established upon instructions of the Russian Supreme Council of National Defense, and its pilots will be drawn from the Red Air Fleet school at Tiflis. The Caucasian air line has at present twelve landplanes and eight seaplanes, which are to be used for permanent aerial communications from Tiflis to Baku and Erivan, to Angora and to Tabriz, Persia.
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