Cairo, Feb, 2, Royal Air Force warplanes on Friday night heavily raided Tripoli's docks and bombed three merchant ships, the R.A.F, communique said yesterday, British bombs hit two 8,00-ton vessel and one 4,000 ton ship, the communique reported, British planes also raided Barce, Talian coastal outpost northeast of Benghazi, Italian Libyan: headquarters, the communique said, Bombs bursting among seaplanes in Tripoli harbour destroyed one and damaged others, it said. Other bombs straddled seaplane hangars, causing explosions, which were followed by clouds of black smoke. Several fires were started—United Press,
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