London, Feb. 10. Reinforced Royal Air Force patrols planes which had resumed bombing and strafing attacks on British coastal shipping. British sources said two other German raiders were believed to have been seriously damaged in four battles between R.A.F. and German planes, 1 The Royal air force counter-attack-an announcement that a ed German raiders coincident with
single British destroyer had sunk two German U-boats attacking a British convoy, The Admiralty announcement said, "N is not normal Admiralty practice to announce the sinkings of U-Boats as they occur, but an exception is made on this occasion in view of the fact that two U-Boats were sunk by one destroyer while attackitig a convoy."
Four battles were fought between British and German planes yesterday and in another British planes pursued a squadron of German bombers out to sea. An encounter between German planes and a British warship also was reported in the North Sea. The German planes few off when the warship opened fire, but first dropped what appeared to have been an aerial torpedo. The warship escaped damage.
During the first aerial clash of the day, B.A E. planes shot down a German bomber near the Firth of Forth. The German plane also was badly damaged by anti-aircraft fire and wick. crashed in a field near North Ber-
Widely Dispersed Raids Later another clash occurred well out over the North Sea where a German raider was reported to have been badly damaged by British pursuit planes, The third battle occurred off the North-east coast of England where patrol fighters attacked two German bombers. Another aerial battle was staged off Aberdeen-shire, Scotland, where British planes pursued a Junkers squadron into the clouds where it was lost. Other British planes chased three Heinkel bombers which were flying low over the water off Arbroath, Fighter planes also rushed to the aid of a tanker being bombed near Peterhead yesterday. The attack on the tanker was only one of many German attacks on British and neutral shipping yesterday as the German offensive against coastal shipping was resumed.
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