” Jepan News, March 20. 1954 Bikini Incident ST JAPA FES, BD a t US EXP BRTS COPAAYt ‘ £4 P Competition has developed between Japanese and American scienti vestigating the radioactive Fukuryu Maru and her 23 injured crew bers, wha returned from the Central Pacific fishing grounds cavered the nuclear “dust of death,” says Yomiuri, The Japanese ate reported to The delicate relation between be reluctant to co-opérate with the Japancse and American scithe American ¢aperts. entists was reflected in two Japanese scientists” yesterday 'st&tements released oa Thursday rushej their analysis of the “dust jconcerning the investigation of 20f death” collected from the Fu- the “dus,af death.” kuryu Maru, while the Atomic Dr Morton, who flew to Tokyo Bomb Casualty Commission team, from Hiroshima, told réporters beaded by Dr John Morton, start. that he expected an announceicd an indenendent investigation. men; on the ash from WashingThe Japanese are endeavouring ton in the near future, while the jte carry out their own investiga- Tokyo University team, announc| on withod, help frcm the Amer- ing that the principal contents icans. were calcium carbonate, was The US team yesterday visited | confident that they would indeithe two paticnts in the Tokyo | pendently trace other contents Univ rsity Hesni al ani is sched- | scon, | jwed to visit Yaizu (Shizuoka However, the American and. Prefecture) tceday to investigate Japanese officials yesterday }1et the Fuhuryu Marv and 21 victims for the first time, ata confer } nespitalized there. The Japanese team visited the ence at the Tsukiji Fish Markeb and a Far “astern Air-Force ofport on Wednesday. Though the cabin*t on. Thurs-. ficial promised to submit, after . consultation . day agreed io conduct a joint . eight-member Tokyo University and o‘her Japanese sci- “enlists are reluctant te make wore ee atte een aey denne the ABCC, +. ~onl ‘Tqukiji, one of the biggest suf- 2 “ferers of fhe radiat’on scare, ~ yeste-day found nobidders -at ali for tuna, aid other b‘ig fish caught in the open seas. One of the two victims “aspitalized in the Tekyo University Hospital has started to lose white blood cell cournt to a éan-j gerous extent, The US public is rushing’ a spe-5 cial salve for radiation burns by! ‘a JAL plane, arriving here to-? ‘morrow mio ring. Mrs Jane Nishiwaki, an_ Amer. ican wife of Professor Yasushi | Nishiwaki of the Osaka Medical College, who inspected Yaizu ony , Wednesday, yesterday published! 4 Renae awk fev such a joint effort. ‘4 team with data on the ash upon urgent ree. quest of the Japanese™ « The Tokyo Fish Market in 4 investigation. with the US, the a signed article ‘n >fat. ing the Americans to < the damage, inciuding taminated fish. . The New York Herald yesterday said that if proved that the Jaranc was not at fauit “com_ elaimg Will surely be’ ¢ met”. The Washington P Times Herald said: “Iti to avoid “q conclusion American authorities m been in some degree neg the matter’,