cet OnaeReROHR EER, NAY coe —_—" - Jéapen News, March 17, 1954 ATOM BLAST SEARS, 23 FISHERMEN: _~ JAPAN MAY PR-OTEST 5 A Japanese Government protest was indicated | today in the aftermath of stories by 23 Japanese ' _fishermen, suffering hideous blistering black- | scar burns and pus dripping eyes and ears, that 4 they were apparent victims of an afomic blast. The Japarese Foreign ONice jsesakt said the description ‘of: submitted a formal request’ tu | the ‘burns the fishtimen suffer the American Embass* in To- | ed did ‘not ‘sound like atomic kyo fcr investigation of the exbomb injurics. ct plosten, reports LNS, | The scientist said hydrogen: The Yom'uri said tle Govern, bomb effects coulj be censidéror of Shizuoka Prefecture, home ; @b’Y different. \ , of the fishermen, would leig2 a Two of the fis nermen were in formal ‘protest on the grounds,, hespital. Tre conci-ion of one ‘that the vessel the’ m‘n were ' was said to be serious, “sailing in was outside the re-] Ttywas Mkely tha; the fishe-stricted atom grounds of th> % bomb testing. men, many of whom did not all Ieands., RMOw they were radiation vicarparently vic-| tims, would’ all be taken to” hos- most recent, a Pia) * hydrogen} White esh which fe'l on their ported the ship after the explosion was ‘fourd to be ratiourctive, Sale of he date, their fish catch, alrcady brought to Tohro, was sustenCed, place, of tre vescel, the u Meru, said tievoat MAS 0 tg.de the restric’ed eters of the b'ast area, “The mnatter of the bla was taken up in the Diet centerday ‘ : afte. neon. . b | of oT : ad A J.rancse selentist who examined one of the victims with a Geiger counter said he could not tell vet whether the men were victims of atomic or hydrosez bomb exples‘ons, Bu; another scientist, who has tone considerable res arch o1 the vieims cf H! ma and Na- ’ 7. ¥ ee i uw be & * ' } | n were seen 8 ts «ot atomic radiatio ren atts searing “ec and Ea a ne ima osh Hir e sinc ohs een : the first time men Was foun her fis se ane Jap soup of *tured i Pac rican test plast In the : Eurned by an Ame “iusada, p the blast js Sanjlro by d tere blis \ cw epee : Od, hospitaL—Fy a . e poe Pn ei a