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By the United Press.
TOKYO, June 5~-A Japanese sea captain said today the
United States appeared to have explcced =: hydrogen bomb
May 28 without warning to ships in the Bikini Atoll area.
Capt. Shinkichi Murata of the Mizuho Maru said his ship
was Grenched with radioactive rain,
Two of his crew were reported suffering an acute shortage of white corpuscles.
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1660 MILES AWAY
"We were 1660 miles from Bikini ‘toll May 28 when a
hydrogen device probably was exploded wicvhout warning," he
said,
gear.
"It was raining that day and the entire crew wore rainRadioactivity then was only 45 geiger counts but it
was 1250 on May 30.
water."
.We washed the ship with soap and sea
Japanese weather observers have claimed the United
States employed a hydrogen device at Bikini May 28.
They
based their claim m recordings of earth and atmospheric shock
waves.
The United States has neither confirmed nor denied
the claim.
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"ACUTE SHORTAGE!
Kyodo News Agency said today that physicians found an
"ecute shortage" in the white corpuscle count of two of the
Murata's crew-members.
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Examination of the crew ceme after the ship arrived at
Niihama on Shikoku Island yesterday from New Caledonia and
was found "hishly radioactive.
Tre white corpuscle count of the rerainder of the crew
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was found to be ebout normal.