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WEW YORK, Saturday (4.4.P.). <= Three U. 8. Arwy doctors have flow to

Rabanl, New Britain, to examine Japanese sesmen said to have been dusted

with radiowactive fallout.

(7? End of Bulletin. R.M.L.)

The fall-out was from a United States hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok,
in the western Pacific,
The doctors from Truk, in the Caroline Islands, will examine five crew

' members on the coastguard vessels Takuyo Maru end the Satsuma Maru, who
were taken to hospital suffering from radiation exposure.
United Press said the ships sent geiger counters haywire when they

reached Rabanl] last weekend, but the radiation had dropped below the danger
level.
The captains of the two ships, which were making oceanographic studies,
said they were well out of the danger sone when showered with radio-active
fall-out.

Jap Protest
The coastguard in Tokyo says 37 menbers of the crews and scientific teans
aboard the vessels have been under medical ebservation because they showed
signs of radiation iliness.
Tokyo reports say the Japansse Covernment is preparing a protest to the

U.S. about the incident, which occurred on July 14 outside the designated
nuclear danger area.
The incident may spark a new wave of demonstrations in Japan during ths

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