§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Under-Secretary of State to the Air Ministry how many machines have since the Armistice been burnt in France; whether, in order to accomplish this, they were soaked with the best aviation spirit; and whether there was no possibility of selling any of them?
§ Major-General SEELYTwelve machines of obsolete type were burnt in France after removal of the engines and instruments. They had been damaged in landing at places where there were no facilities for reducing them to produce, nor means for transporting them elsewhere, nor was there any possibility of selling them. I have no information as to the use of petrol to assist in burning them.