DESTRUCTION OF AEROPLANES.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15075, 19 May 1919, Page 5

DESTRUCTION OF AEROPLANES.

OUTCRY IN ENGLAND

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London, May 16. Some newspapers have raised a groat outcry at the destruction of several thousand aeroplanes, many of which were new.

;. Major-General Seeley states that the storage was insufficient. .Many were obsolete, and unsuited for civilian flying. They would be used for firewood. There were 5000 still to be bi'oken up. This action was the least costly to the State.