Crew Agrees To Sail
(Rec. 10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 18. An atomic scientist assured the crew of the 9994-ton Nauru-bound ship Triaster yesterday that they would be in no danger of atomic fall-out from the coming Christmas Island hydrogen bomb test. After the scientist, Professor Courtney H. Mohr, Professor of Physics at Melbourne University, had addressed them for _nearly an hour, the crew decided to sail —24 hours after its scheduled departure. A crew spokesman said: “After hearing the report and opinions expressed by Professor Mohr and having full confidence in Captain Kitching to carry out the precautions advised by the Admiralty, we agreed to saiL “However, we wish to state that we are unanimously opposed to any future nuclear tests, and request our unions to raise pur demand for the ban on all atomic and nuclear weapons by all governments.’’
Yesterday cooks, seamen and stewards told Captain Kitching that they would not sail until they had assurances that there would be no danger from radioactive fall-out. The crew members also demanded protective
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 11
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