On the coming into force of the present Treaty, all military and naval aeronautical material, except the machines mentioned in the second and third paragraphs of Article 198, must be delivered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. Delivery must be effected at such places as the said Governments may select, and must be completed within three months. In particular, this material will include all items under the following heads which are or have been in use or were designed for warlike purposes: Complete aeroplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manufactured, repaired or assembled. Dirigibles able to take the air, being manufactured, repaired or assembled. Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen. Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft. Pending their delivery, dirigibles will, at the expense of Germany, be maintained inflated with hydrogen; the plant for the manufacture of hydrogen, as well as the sheds for dirigibles may at the discretion of the said Powers, be left to Germany until the time when the dirigibles are handed over. Engines for aircraft. Nacelles and fuselages. Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bomb-dropping apparatus, torpedo-dropping apparatus, synchronisation apparatus, aiming apparatus). Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs loaded or unloaded, stocks of explosives or of material for their manufacture). Instruments for use on aircraft. Wireless apparatus and photographic or cinematograph apparatus for use on aircraft. Component parts of any of the items under the preceding heads. The material referred to above shall not be removed without special permission from the said Governments. 10 July 1919 “Flight” reports – “According to a message from Paris, the French Chamber will vote additional credits for the establishment of an Aviation Mission in Turkey, entrusted with the organisation of the following postal lines: Constantinople, Smyrna, Grecian Archipelago; Constantinople, Palestine, Messa, Egypt, Constantinople, Armenia, Caucasus, Persia, Bucharest, South Russia; Constantinople, Salonika, the Balkans. It is stated that these lines will be carried on by the military until French air navigation companies have been floated.” 27 August 1919 War Cabinet. Proposed establishment of an Ariel route from Cairo to Karachi. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War and Air: “The air council have recently had under consideration the necessity for the early establishment of strategic air routes throughout the empire. Of such roots the most important at the present juncture alike on political and military grounds is the route between Egypt and India, via Mesopotamia a preliminary survey of which has already been made in the course of the two successful flights to India accomplished some months since. These flights however were of a pioneer, experimental nature, and, if the route is to be made permanently available for the movements of aircraft on a large-scale, it is essential that the construction of certain works at the more important stations should be undertaken forthwith. The proposed expenditure of £100,000 for these purposes has been the subject of correspondence between the Air Ministry and the Treasury who think that a decision of the War Cabinet should first be obtained on the question of the strength to be maintained in the East as part of the defences of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, Mesopotamia and India. The Treasury further suggest that before any work of
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