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Show SURRENDER OF HUN AIRPLANES IS NEARLY COMPLETE LONDON. Dec. S. (British Wireless I Service.) The surrender of the 2000 Ger- j man airplanes required under the terms ' of the armistice convention, has been pro- ! ceeding during the past week, and it is expected the full complement of enemy j machines will shortly be in the allies' i hands. The taking over, examining and park- ' lng of so vast a fleet of machines has necessarily taken time, as the German armies, in their retirement, are leaving i the planes behind in their evacuated airdromes. air-dromes. Certain difficulties and at- tempted evasions connected with the pre- i cise proportion of the barious types of i aircraft to be turned over, and the air- i worthiness of some of tho machines eur- 1 rendered aro how being adjusted in response re-sponse to firm representations by Mar- I shal Foch on behalf of the allies. Some light is thrown upon what this gigantic surrender of aircraft means to the Germans by the official British figures fig-ures of air fighting upon the British western front from January 1, 1918, to the date of the armistice. These figures show the numher of enemy machines destroyed de-stroyed in aerial combats by the British to have heen 3060, while enemy machines j driven down out of control numbered 1174. Germany is known to Jiave lost well over 6U00 airplanes destroyed and surrendered sur-rendered during the present year. On the other hand, the resources of the allies are being reinforced by 2000 German machines ma-chines of modern type and in good, serviceable serv-iceable condition. |