US Confi:cms FError. Ca ! PNT ay He Wiha SQ} i Washington, 5 Sat.— A completely authoritative | ‘ssurce stid yesterday the United States fen | tentativelyestablished that American “negligen| ce or error” in the Bikini H-bomb tests caused inJury to 23 Japanese fishermen, reports INS. | t The source said the TS “will accept responsibility” and would veloped ycsterday, however, the- fa.lt was due not so much toj , make compcnsation to the Japa- either carelessness or negligence nese tuna fishermen in the ‘as it was to the explosion being South Pacifie burned by a ra- ‘two to three times more power- dioactive “fall out” after a ‘ful than anticipated. thermonuclear eaplosion on Squads of US Federal food inMarch L spectors are under orders now Investigationg so far complet. to check alt imports of tuna_ ed, the source said, s¢emed) clearfish from the Pacific hydrogen ly to support the claim of the bowb t.st area on the “stim? possibility they m.y ke rad‘oJapanese fishermen that they were outsce the danger Grea active, . when showered by radicactive In Tokyo, a spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office said toesh, On Friday, US Ambassador to day that ajl tuna fish exported Japan John Allison promised the to America would be tested first -Japanese Goverrment that com- with) Geiger counters and the pensation would be mdie if it goverrment would vouch for it were established that the fisher- j being free from radioactive conmen were not at fault through | tamination, peither negligently or deliberateThe Fore'gn Office acted quick- | . ily fishing with’n a danger zone. ly on the heels of news that one 1 had now been tentatively es- California tuna packer cancelled ! tariished, the source said, that a 150-ton tung shipment order 1 the blame rested only with US from Japan in the alarm that 1 ‘ officials and scientists in charge, has spread since the 23 Japanese4 of the March 1 blast. According to inforrration de. fishermen returned with a radio-, active tuna cargo from the Mar>. , shal) Istands area, - «4 i