BRITISH AERO ENGINES
THE ORDER FROM GERMANY QUITE IN ORDER (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, May 14. Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding the order from a German firm for eighty aeroplane engines placed with Armstrong, Siddeley Co., Sir John Simon said that fulfilment of tho order did not conflict with tho terms relevant to international instruments. ■ In reply to a further question, Sir John Simon said tho obligations of Germany regarding the import of aeroplanes and aeronautical material were defined in Article, 198 of the Treaty of Versailles, and in the Paris air agree-, ment of 1926. Under these obligations Germany undertook to prevent the import of aircraft, armoured or protected m any way. or equipped to receive any engine of war, or apparatus for sighting or discharge of engines of war. These obligations did not, therefore, affect the import of engines or other aircraft parts in genera). . His Majesty s Government would continue to uso its best endeavours to seo that no export material from this country conflicted with the relevant provisions of treaties to which it was a'parry.
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Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 9
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