1941-08-30 — Page 9

Second Section

Hongkong Telegraph.

Magazine Feature

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941.

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Photo at left above shows bomb explosions at Waalhaven. The misty, circular object in the right foreground is the gun-sight. How very low our aircraft actually flow is best depicted in the picture

in the right upper corner. The planes barely skim the house tops............

We Fly Low?

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For many weeks now the Royal Air Force has delivered, day and night with- out stop, heavy and disastrous blows from the air over Germany and other vital arcas in the occupied countries Our planes do not drop bombs at randem, but seek to destroy important objectives, such as air fields, docks, railway centres, factories and shipping. These pictures were made during a recent low-level attack upon a large concentration of German shipping in Rotterdam docks. Blenheim bombers took part in the attack. This type -of-aircraft,-incidentally--is-indicated_to_be_the_kind_that_will_form_the_ "Hongkong Squadron." In all, seventeen ships, of an estimated tonnage of 100,000 tons, were put out of action, while on land two warehouses and a factory were left in flames. Approaching their targets, the Blenheims flew low over Dutch territory in "V" formations, which was taken as the Victory symbol by the Dutch, who waved to the R.A.F. as they swept to the attack.

Picture at the right shows Dutch citizens in a Rotterdam street watching without fear as the R.A.F. planes go by. Below are further pictures of bomb burṛts at the Rotterdam docks. The tail of tho

plano from which the photos were taken can be seen,