“onSatur ‘July 19 two@ananesd ‘pa nk of theSapanese Navy’on a cartographic surveyarrived edeul. " Accerding ‘tohis story,” they eaiiei through ‘the Pacis 1 miles west of the last atom explosion certre in the Vareli G2 00S8 ~ % 3eFa a eS = theeSheastet thems | Asoutivensteintstroneeé ~mtiog‘a-vest™“Of blew over their headin:‘an: atomic¢louds> Onthe "TAKUYO", where “-“they havé.allequipment such as geiger_ counter ani. ecintillo- ne, . graph, they noticed about a Wsek -ago;*at-mitiay, that the -ahip was radiowactive, _ Accoriing to €l:cir:atatement, "it was. about 7O milli Roentgen - “They imeeately contacte’ their © ~~ headquarters ‘and took Frveautions -~ hogei the ieck of the ~ ship ani cleaned the crew's Clothes, ete. © When theese. ahips arrivedat Rabaul, -1 inmediately sontacte3 _ :: You ond, after our raiio.ceversation,-.we took thegeiger. Sounterfrom Ehe-shipte the. Sustonie shied comer,‘where it: registered: 2h:times per minute; onthe deck ofthe ship the wv. same instrumentPeristerest 29 times per minute. > ; The doctor of the ‘ship reportei that, accoriing to his opinion, two metbhers of the crew were affeoted. We took 7 members for Dlooi testing and fom the 7, 3 had counts lower than 5000 , leucocytes, For control we took 7 members of the other ship s crew, where we fount two members hai a count lower then 5000 @e Well. Today ~e have tested the crews of both ships and the results @re attached, We are also enclosing the scintillograph reports from the ship\, which was contaminated, Accoriing to the statements of the Captain, the "SATSUMO” was Not conteminated ani their instruments 4143 not show radiio= activity. BEST AVAILABLE COPY I have to exphasizse here that owing to interpretation @iffieulties, some of these statements may be incorrect. t We have only one Japanese here whoee English is more or less undpraganiadle; ungprtunasely, ne aw hey =~ wow epeak ¥ Vwery poor Eng to make contact in other languages. ucated menbers of sh. I failei, Gsm, Unfortunatel, when we took the geiger counter to the Custome hed the *rese reporter arrived ani he saw these activitics 60, thenews spread geite speedily through “abdul and further afield, In accordance With your instructions, the ship was net put im quarantine an4 th® crew were free to move about; but I recommended the people not to go on board the "TARUYC", in x