London, Feb. 27.
Accomplishing the greatest feats of the European War, Royal Air Force planes last night and today carried out reconnaissance and "bomphlet" raids over North Sea; Baltic and inland German regions, the air Ministry announced tonight.
A squadron of R.A.F. craft recon-noirred above Heligoland Bight today, gathered much useful information but lost one plane "which could not return to its base," according to the Ministry.
Other flights were carried out over Berlin, where pamphlets were dropped, according to informed quarters, and over the strongly fortified areas just north of Hamburg. British airmen returning from the cruise above the German capital at dawn, declared the whole city was in darkness. They met only one German plane aloft, and it did not even attempt to give battle.
Other planes last night carried out successful reconnaissance work over Hamburg itself, Kiel, several other less important ports, and over the estuaries of rivers in northern and north-western Germany, Air Ministry quarters revealed.
Two German planes were shot down over British coasts today, bringing the total of enemy craft destroyed over or close to British territory to 43. Nine other German warplanes were attacked and, the Ministry announced, "probably could not return to their bases."—Havas.
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