CHINESE BOMB

Press, Volume C, Issue 29657, 30 October 1961, Page 13

CHINESE BOMB

Preparation Reported (NX Press Assn.—Copyright) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29. A Russian radio broadcast monitored in Los Angeles yesterday said Communist China was getting ready to conduct its first nuclear tests, the Associated Press reported. The monitor said the broadcast reported that a 2000-square-mile area near the Russian-Chinese border was being evacuated because of “the forthcoming nuclear tests by the Chinese People’s Republic.” He said such broadcastshad not always been accurate. The broadcast did not announce the dates of the tests or indicate the size of the devices to be tested. The monitor, who spoke Russian and regularly listened to Russian radio reports, said he picked up the broadcast at 9.5 megacycles. He said the broadcast was directed at the Soviet Union and the Far East. The monitor asked not to be identified. He was associated with an important scientific organisation and one of his assignments was to monitor Russian broadcasts, Associated Press said. The organisation said it did not want to be mentioned as the source of such reports. The monitor said the Russian announcer reported the tests would be conducted in an area near the confluence of the borders of China, Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union. The monitor said the Russians had exploded some low-yield devices at a test site near Semipalatinsk, which was in the area mentioned. Syria Readmitted. Syria has been readmitted to the Arab League.—Beirut, October 29.