Forthcoming visit of Secretary of State for Air to Baghdad offers unique opportunity for first hand discussion of British projects in Persia which I consider would be most advantageous. Will you authorise me to meet him there. I can arrange flight with Junkers and should only be absent 4 or 5 days. Total cost of air passage will not exceed £250.” [In his book recording his visit, the Secretary of State for Air – Sir Samuel Hoare – wrote, “For the third time we returned to Baghdad, finding to our satisfaction that much of the work upon which we had been engaged was nearing completion. Of the many pleasant memories of this last stay two particularly impressed themselves on my memory. My old friend Sir Percy Loraine expressed a wish to see me for the purpose of discussing with me various Air questions, and the ubiquitous Junkers Company had offered to fly him to Baghdad. I gladly arranged for a British machine to meet him at the Persian frontier. Leaving Teheran in the early morning and changing machines at Khanikin, he arrived safely and easily at Baghdad in the middle of the morning, and, after a day’s talk with Mr. Amery and myself, returned in the same way the next day.”] <Hoare, 1925> 25 March 1925 Extract from Bushire Residency Diary No.6 of 1925: “59. AERIAL. Messrs. Mirza Chulam Hussain Kazeruni and Sons of Bushire notified that a Junker aeroplane was due to arrive from Tehran on the 25th and would carry two passengers on its return flight to Tehran at a charge of Tomans 300 each. The machine arrived on the 28th, bringing Herr Scheurlen a Director of the Company and Herr and Frau Erich von Salzmann, Journalists, who left for India immediately afterwards. It left India on the 31st for Tehran carrying Herr Scheurlen and Captain Khatchikhin.” File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’ [35r] (82/494) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) April 1925 Junkers has closed the recently inaugurated Teheran-Ispahan service. The newspaper “Iran” reports that there has been no definite news as to whether the Government will assist Junkers; that the Junkers staff are most disappointed, and the company has therefore stopped the Teheran-Ispahan service. Junkers intends to close the Teheran-Enzeli route if there is no progress and will send its staff to Germany. 1 April 1925
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