A. CHAPTER VI CEVERAL COMMENTS COMKENTS ON AUSTRALIAN RECORDS AND DATA Paragraph 31 The statement "they sailed through the Pacific 2. Refs WED 3/4/1378, dated July 2, 1958. (Tab 4, Appendix IZ) a. 900 miles vest of the last atem explosion center in the Careline Islands" On the other hand, is, ef course, not ecasistent with eur movledge of the leeation of the wuspected event whieh teok place at Bikini Atoll. they were about 520 miles from Enivetok and 720 niles from Bikini ac- cording te their pooition 2s show em course plet (Tab A, Appendix ITI) Paragraph 3: The statement "it was about 70 nillircentgens* and ag reperted te eur dovernnent in their official advisories. be He time wit is indicated. This ie further confused by ie neaningless either ag a dose or dose-rate figure in the context iz whieh given. the fect that Captain Matsubara is reported in the leenl (Rabanl) neweIn paper as using a figure of 7 to indionte that this represented a nunber scch as °20 counts per ninute above the linit ef human safety.* Ref- actuality, the mmber 70 really indicates 2 coumts per ainute shove the higher norma] background limit of the instrument im question. erence next peragragh belew snd page 4 stery, RABAUL TIMES, dated 25 July 1958, eolum 3, paragraph 1, under subbead “above limit.” (Tab B, Appendix YI). eo Paragraph 4: The numbers quoted ere vel] vithin the sera] background range qaeted in theiy second interview vith the dustrelian authorities. Referenes HED 3/4/1410 dated July 24, 1958, paragraph &, 4 BESTAVAILABLE COPY