Warns Off Alien Aircraft.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 5, 1913:
British Government Quick to Use Authority Conferred by New Act.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, March 4.— The Government to-day issued regulations running to several thousand words concerning visits of foreign aircraft to this country.
    The chief features of these regulations, which are authorized by the Aerial Navigating act, rushed through Parliament recently, are that anybody navigating a foreign airship in con-travention of the orders is liable to imprisonment for six months and a fine of $1,000.
    Any aircraft which fails to comply with the orders is liable to be fired on after three signals.
    Any person in an aircraft guilty of espionage is liable to seven years' penal servitude.
    Military aircraft cannot visit England except by permission of the Government. Other aircraft must obtain clearance papers from a British Consul.