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Show GERMANS RAID BRITISH SHIPS LONDON, March 2 OPt German air raiders, swooping low over the North tea. struck anew at gritaln't shipping lanes today at British scouting planes returned to their bases after a night of reconnaissance reconnais-sance flights which a communique said had taken them over Berlin and northwest Germany and drawn fire from Berlin's batteries. Two of the nasi raiders which appeared off the Scottish coast were driven out to sea by royal air force fighters as the sounds of heavy gunfire rolled inland. The crew of a steamer which reached a British port said the ship had been bombed and machine-gunned machine-gunned by a nasi plane, which was driven off by a war vessel before British planet reached the scene. The scouting planes which re-connolterod re-connolterod Germany for the seventh sev-enth successive night reported they had drawn antiaircraft fire at Berlin, Ber-lin, but the air ministry declared that "the fire was wide of the mark and no evasive action by the bombers was necessary." Thousands of leaflets were scattered scat-tered over the Berlin area, the communique added, and parachute flares were dropped "to drive home the fact that our aircraft were once again over the capital of the relch." |