8 March 1925 First flight Teheran-Ispahan-Shiraz-Bushire. This flight, by Walter Mittelholzer, took six hours. Mittelholzer notes that the route of the flight is the extension of the Russian military route from the Caspian Sea to Tehran. Mittelholzer states that when he was at Enzeli a Russian warship lay at the harbor entrance, overseeing imports and exports. At Boushire the English had a garrison, telegraph station and consulate; the English fleet controlled the Persian Gulf and, as the Russians in the north, the trade. By road the journey from Tehran to Boushire takes four or five days, although the journey from Chiraz to Boushire is extremely harazdous. In winter the land route is often closed for months. <Mittelholzer, 1926> 18 March 1925 From Department of Overseas Trade, Westminster: “Upon receipt of Foreign Office memorandum (E 1113/324/34) dated 4th March, enquiries were made into records available in this Department, as a result of which it appears that there is no record of any participation of British capital in the Junker concerns, viz. either in the Junkers Werke A.G., of Dessau, which produces the aeroplanes, or in the Junker aviation companies (Junkers’ Luftverkehr Akt., of Dessau, and Berliner Flugtrefengesellschaft and North Eastern Europe Union) now in formation.” From British Legation, Tehran: “Count Schulenburg said that Junkers first proposals had not been acceptable and he himself considered that their demands in the way of money were excessive. Now however they had come down to a more reasonable basis. The Persian government had laid down the air services which they wish to see established in the following order of importance: 1 Baku-Tehran-Isfahan 2 Tehran-Khanikin 3 Tehran-Isfahan-Shiraz-Bushire.
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