Office of the Historian

511.3B1/20

The British Chargé (Lindsay) to the Acting Secretary of State

Washington, February 25, 1920.
No. 123

Sir: By direction of my Government I have the honour to inform you that in reply to a request from the Belgian Government, His Majesty’s Government have expressed the view, with regard to aircraft under the Arms Traffic Convention, that if these are not fitted or supplied with guns or bombs, bombing apparatus or ammunition, they are free from the restrictions imposed by the Convention, even if they are intended for observation use in wartime.

I have [etc.]

R. C. Lindsay