The Archive · 1920

Treaty Evasion

It is a deliberate attempt to evade the provisions of the Treaty vith regard to the surrender of aircraft. Each company has put in claim to retain a large number of military machines, freely distributed by the Government to these bogus concerns, on the ground that they are required for commercial purposes. In addition, several carefully-hidden dumps of aircraft material have been discovered, and itis obvious that Germany ' still vlings desperately to the idea of "e-establishing a military air service It may be stated, however, that the Allied Aeronautical Commission is fully alive to the stratagem, and will insist woon the surrender of these aircraft.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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