29 May 1924 12 June 1924 Extract from Confidential summary of news received by His Majesty’s Political Residency in the Persian Gulf: ITALIAN INTERESTS. The Italian cruiser “Calabria" which sailed from Bombay on the 2nd June, arrived at Bandar Abbas on the 8th and left on the 10th for Bushire which she reached on the 12th. Her special mission at Bushire was to take over and transport to Rome the bodies of two Italian aviators who were killed in 1920 by the fall of their machine while making a landing in Bushire. H. M. S. “Cyclamen", which had specially come to Bushire to take part in the ceremony, steamed out a few miles and escorted the Calabria into the Dastak anchorage off Reshire. Capt. Gaccia called on the Political Resident who has charge of Italian interests, on the evening of his arrival, and on the Governor, the next day. On the 13th, the two coffins were taken in military ambulance cars from the Telegraph cemetery at Reshire to the New Customs Wharf in Town and embarked with due ceremony. The Calabria sailed the same night for Basrah. She visited Kuwait on the 20th, Muscat on the 25th, and left the next day for Aden. File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [56v] (127/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) 23 June 1924
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