Extensive Reconnaissance Flights Cover Major German War Bases and Cities; Heinkel Downed London, Feb. 27.
War Office announces that a large area in North Scotland is to be declared a protected area from March 11, under the Defence Regulations.
After that date, no person will be allowed to remain in, or enter, the area without a permit, except those not being enemy aliens whose homes are in the prescribed district on the date named. The protect the counties of Caithness, Sunder ted area consists of the whole of nand, Ross and Cromarty, as well as parts of Inverness and Argyl "During the last 24 hours, a number of successful flights over enemy ten itary have been carried out by the Royal Air Force," states a communique issued by the Air Ministry today: "These flights included reconnaissances over Heligoland and the German North Sea coast, as well as ov er large areas of the interior in western Germany.
German Heinkel raider was engaged and shot down by a British alr force fighter off the mouth of the Firth of Forth shortly before 1 pam, today, the Ministry of Alt an= nounced.
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