Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-09 | Page 2 | Germans Turn over Planes to the Allies

uu GERMANS TORN OVER PLANES TO THE ALLIES LONDON, Dec. 8. (British Wireless Wire-less Service) Tbi surrender of the 2,000 German airplanes required under tho terms of tho armistice has been proceeding during the past week and it is expected the full complement of enemy machines will shortlv be in the allied hands. " The taking over, examining and parking of so vast a fleet of machines has necossarily -taken time, as the German armies in their retirement are leaving the pianos behind in their evacuated airdromes. Cortain difficulties difficul-ties and attemptod raslong coanaoted Trith the preciao proportion of the tx-lous tx-lous typea of aircraft to b turnod orer and the alrvrorthinefls of soma of tho machines surrendered are not being adjusted in response to firm representations represen-tations by Marshal Foch on behalf of the allies. Some light is thrown upon what this jrljjantic surrender of aircraft means to I eBBaaa . , the Germans by tho .official British figures of air fighting upon the Brit- : ; f ish western front from January 1 n", r 1918, to the date of the armistice. ' These figures show the number of en- ; emy machines destroyed in aeriaJ . combats by the British to have been 3(060, while enemy machines driven t , down out of control numbered 1,174. 1. & Germany is known to have lost well f E over 6,000 air planes destroyed and f E surrendered during the present year, f; B On the other hand, the resources of 1' fj the allies are being reenforced by 2.00C ft m German machines of modern type and M. E in good serviceable condition. ft I!