"We cond see the damage done by the British bombs," the narrator added, "and the demolition bombs seemed to have been dropped over a vast area of the port, which is one of the largest in the world.
"It seemed strange to me that the only shelter we could use was about one mile away from our ship and we had to run for it, at times while the British bombers were active overhead and the German defenders were trying to drive them off.
"During the first month after war began, the British did not drop any bombs," said the Chinese narrator, mentioning the period during which the Royal Air Force were active in dropping leaflets making the last British appeal to the German people to see reason and cease their crime against Poland.
"But after the first month," he continued, "the British planes began to bomb Hamburg and did enormous damage to the large docks, many warehouses and some factories, ah of which we could see from our ship in harbour.
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