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Flight, June 19, 1924 First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 808. (No. 25, Vol. XVI.) JUNE-19, 1924 [Weekly, Price 6d. L Post free, 7d, Flight The Atrcraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates * European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS PAGE Editorial Comment The R.A.F. in Kurdistan 391 Honours 392 Operations in Kurdistan 3 R.A.F. Pageant 394 The Aero Show at Prague .. .. .. .. .. .. .. H95 Royal Air Force 4(11 R.A.F. Intelligence . 401 R.A.F. Sports .. 40 Progress in the Big Flights 402 Imports and Exports DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1921 June 21 ., 21 25.. 28.. F.A.I. Conference Opens, Paris Independent Force (R.A.F.) 6th A»nual Re union Dinner at R.A.F. Club R.N.A.S- and 5th Group, R.A.F., annual dinner Royal Air Force Pageant, Hendon July 24-Aug. 10 Tour de France for Light 'Planes July 2S .... Aug. 4 .... „ 4 .... Sept. 8-13 Oct. 2 .... October King's Cup Race Aerial Derby at Lympne Holiday Light Aeroplane Handicap at Lympne Light 'Plane Competitions at Lympne Aero Golfing Society. Autumn Meeting, at Moor Park Golf Club, for A.G.S. Challenge Cup presented by Cellon (Richmond) Ltd. Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore, USA. EDITORIAL COMMENT. ]NE of the most fascinating official docu ments to be published in recent years is the supplement to the London Gazette of June 10, 1924, containing the de spatches of Air Vice-Marshal Sir John M. Salmond, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O., Air Officer Commanding British Forces in Iraq. These despatches describe the operations carried out in Kurdistan against the pro-Turk intrigues of Shaikh Mahmoud, Governor of Sulaimaniyah. Extensive The extracts from Sir John's despatches are Kurdistan published on pp. 393-394 of this issue of FLIGHT, and these should be carefully read by all interested in this latest use of the air arm, a use which, on the authority of Sir John Salmond himself, may well be vastly extended in the future as more experience is gained. It is difficult, in fact well-nigh impossible, for us at home fully to appreciate the difficulties with which the British forces in Iraq had to contend. An examination of even a large-scale map merely reveals the fact that the operations were carried out in very difficult hill country, and it is easy to see that Sir John spoke no more than the bare truth when he stated that " even the most recent maps are of small value for military operations." In order to fix ideas somewhat, and thus be able the more clearly to follow Sir John's despatches, it may be stated that Kirkuk is the railhead some 150 miles due north of Baghdad, and approximately 100 miles south-east of Mosul. Sulaimanieh, the headquarters of Shaikh Mahmoud, is situated some 60 miles east north-east of Kirkuk, near the Persian border, and in a range of hills diffi cult of access. Serdash, or Sardasht as it is usually spelled on maps, to the neighbourhood of which Shaikh Mahmoud fled when his section of Sulaimanieh was bombed, is just inside the Persian border, some 30 or 40 miles to the north of Sulaimanieh. The whole of Sir John Salmond's despatches should be carefully read, and a perusal of such extracts as we have been able to publish should serve to indicate how vastly interesting are the full despatches them-
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