TALE OF A CITY 98 After compliments In your letter No. 206 dated 26th Ramadhan 1360, equivalent to the 18th October 1941 you very kindly agreed to the improvement of the landing ground facilities in Sharjah. 2. The Political Agent, Bahrain, instructs me to intimate to you that the Royal Air Force authorities have now informed him in detail of the improvements which they wish to carry out. They are : i. Extension of the existing aerodrome ; ii. Construction of two camps, totaling 66 reed huts and some minor building to the east and north of Sharjah fort, to accommodate Royal Air Force personnel, if the necessity arises to station aeroplanes there ; iii. Extension of the Royal Air Force bomb store area already existing. iv. The stationing of a flight of Vincent aircraft and the necessary personal with them at Sharjah. 3. I am to request you, my friend , to give your formal assent to the carrying out of these measures, and also to provide such local guards as may be required for the protection of stores, etc., belonging to the Royal Air Force. 4. In view of the needs of the present war it may be necessary to station in the future additional Royal Air Force aircraft to those mentioned herein at Sharjah. I would therefore request your formal consent to the stationing at Sharjah for the duration of the war only, of such aircraft and personnel attached to them as the high British Government may consider necessary. Usual ending. J. C. Pelly Political Officer, Trucial Coast.” 3 Shaikh Sultan bin Saqr al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, responded agreeing to the request on 19th Muharram 1361 AH. He wrote: “ I was very pleased to receive your letter no. c/152 dated 6th February 1942 equivalent to 19th Muharram 1361, the contents of which I have duly noted. I agree to the requests made by the highBritishGovernment as described in the paragraphs of your lettermentioned above and will be pleased to do everything in my power to help His Majesty’s Government for whose success and victory over their enemies, the dictators, I pray 3 I.O.R./R/15/2/268, pp.173−174.
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