Evening star., 1941-07-23
Vichy Reported Ready to Yield
To Tokio's |ndo- o-Chino Demand:
Nozi Wedges Held, Soviet Says
Scores Are Killed
And Wounded in
New Moscow Roid
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 23.-A second
successive night of Nazi aerial
attacks on Moscow admittedly
left scores killed and injured, but
the Russians declared today the
raids were another setback for
the Luftwaffe and indicated
German ground forces had made
no progress from their new
wedges inside the Finnish and
Ukrainian frontiers.
The Red Army's midday bulletin
reported stubborn battles through
the night, but it mentioned fighting
in the same zones as yesterday and
said nothing significant had oc-
CURED elsewhere.
These fronts included not only the
Porkhov and Smolensk areas, where
German and Russian armies pre-
viously had been embattled, but also
the Petrozavodsk region. inside the
Soviet Union from Finland north Of
Leningrad. and Zhitomir. so miles
closer to Kiev than Novograd Vo-
lynski. where the Red Army's re-
sistance to the NaZis' Ukrainian
thrust had been centered.
Petrzavodsk and Zhitomir ap-
peared for the first time in an early
morning communique on yesterdays
war developments and were re-
peated in the later bulletin. indi-
eating that fighting at these new
points still was indecisive.
Hospital Struck by Bomb.
Again last night. Russians de-
clared Moscow's defenses beat of
ruin from the skies, and the Luft-
waite failed to burn out this camou-
f1aged capital of painted spires and
teeming millions.
(The German high command
said Nazi raiders last night found
fires from Monday night still un-
controlled and bombarded mill
tary targets in Moscow again with
a destructive rain of incendiaries
and heavy explosives
Scores were killed and wounded.
Some fires f1ared up. A few homes
and hospital were among the
places hit. But in the main the
night-long assault by $50 German
bombers was pictured as a fizzle by
a Soviet communique.
1t said 10 per cent of the raiders
were shot down and only a few
pierced the sesrchlight patterns and
bursting barages to reach the CEN
trail city. twenty-five German
planes were reported felled the
night before.
Reports from the long land front,
meanwhile, declared the Nazi on
rush still checked in the vital CEN
trail sector of Porkhov and Smo-
lensk, but acknowledged German
Finnish penetrations in the north
and indicated Nazi thrusts into the
Ukraine might have deepened.
Moscow's four millions seemingly
took the raid stoically, as they did
the night before, filing into shelters
and the protection of the citys sub
way system at the warning whine
Of sirens.
Searchlights flashed on and the
sharp bark of anti-aircraft guns be-
gan almost at the first sound of the
sirens. At the same time barrage
balloons were sent up, trailing heavy
cables
Throughout the alarm, which for
a second time lasted approximately
5l2 hours, starting at 1910 pm, fire
watchers stood their roof-top posts
in relays, ready to deal with in
cendiaries.
Fire brigades quickly extinguished
the fires touched off by bombs. the
Soviet Information Bureau said. It
declared mo military objectives were
damaged"
Altogether, a Moscow communiuue
today said, 80 German planes were
shot down yesterday and last night.
Loss of II Russian planes was
acknowledged.
The day before the Germans lost
81 planes to IA Russian aircraft de-
stroyed, the Russians said.