Helsinki, July 10, The Finnish capital underwent its second severe air raid of the new war against Soviet Russia on Tuesday night when Red Air Force planes battered several sectors of the city.
Casualties were believed to have been much higher than in the raid on Sunday night. The first official figures said 17 persons were killed and 165 were seriously injured.
Shortly after the alarm sounded. the fiercest anti-aircraft barrage every witnessed in this city began around the outskirts as Soviet bombers in flights of six and three planes each flew over the city, They re leased bombs in widespread sectors, heavily damaging more than half a dozen buildings.
Official communiques disclosed yesterday that the Finns had destroyed 41 Russian tanks and 73 enemy planes and had sunk five Red Fleet vessels.
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