CO129-556-13 Traffic in arms to China 6-1-1936 - 13-1-1937 — Page 114

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which led to the Arme Traffic Convention of 1925,

endeavoured to keep aireraft mat of the Convention on the

ground that m airæraft as such was not arms, and that it

was impossible to distinguish between an aircraft intended

for military purposes and one intended fær eivil purpos 65,

They wore, however, not successful and aircraft were

included in that Convention, but were not made subject to

the export licensing system mless exported to one of the

special se100. In the draft Convention, produced by the

Arms Traffic Conformee of last year, sircraft are divided

into two seatāms, (1) aircraft "which by reason of their

design or construction are adapted or intended either for

military or naval recommaissance, or for aerial combat by

the use of machine guns or artillery, or for the carrying

and dropping of bombe, or which are equipped with or

prepared for any of the arms or appliances referred to in

paragraph 2 below" (machine gme, bomb racks, etc.), and (2)

other aircraft, aircraft engines and certain specified parts.

The full rigows of the export and import licensing

procedure were to be applied to the aircraft in the first

category, and a less rigorous system of export licensing

only to the aircraft, aircraft engines and specified parts.

The Board are not satisfied that any useful purpose

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