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AIR ATTACK

SECOND RAID ON MOSCOW FIFTEEN GERMAN PLANES SHOT DOWN. DOZENS OF PEOPLE KILLED OR INJURED. LONDON, July 23. Moscow was again raided during the night. Fifteen enemy planes, it is announced, were shot down. In this second raid 150 German planes participated, which, according to a Moscow communique, failed like the first. Soviet planes and anti-aircraft guns prevented large enemy forces from reaching Moscow, but dozens of people were killed or injured. No military target was hit. Fire brigades and. the population extinguished dwel-ling-house fires. A hospital and nursing home were seriously damaged. The alarm lasted five hours. M. Stalin, in an order of the day, states that it is ascertained that 22 raiders were shot down in the raid on Monday night. The raiders were spotted immediately, resulting in over 200 being dispersed and only isolated planes penetrated over the capital. Some fires occurred, and these were energetically extinguished. Good order prevailed. NORTHERN FRONT REPORTED RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL. ULTIMATE THREAT SEEN TO LENINGRAD. (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, July 23. With regard to the situation on the Russian front, it is felt in London today that generally there is a lull in activities there. However, as to fighting in the northern sector, where the Finns and Germans are attacking in the neighbourhood of Petrozavodsk, northeast of Lake Ladoga, reports confirm that the Russians here are making withdrawals. It may be that this effort by the Germans forms part of a pincer movement, with Leningrad as an ultimate objective. This northern attack would operate in connection with the German thrust from the direction of Estonia. Petrozavodsk is on the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway and on the south-west shore of Lake Omega. There is still no confirmation in London of Smolensk having fallen and there is nothing to suggest that the Germans have captured Kiev. In the Bessarabia sector it seems that the Russians are still withdrawing.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1941, Page 5

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AIR ATTACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1941, Page 5

AIR ATTACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1941, Page 5

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