§ Sir J. D. REESasked the Secretary of State for War whether engines for airships, aeroplanes, and waterplanes can be, and are being, constructed in this country; whether firms making such craft are in receipt of regular orders front the War Office; whether there is any factory in this country in which a rigid or other airship can be, and is being, constructed; and whether, in time of war, aircraft or parts thereof can be imported into the United Kingdom?
§ Mr. H. BAKERThe answer to the first three parts of the question is in the affirmative; to the fourth part that in time of war aeroplanes and their component parts and accessories are regarded as conditional contraband under Article 24 of the Declaration of London.