SEA BIRDS DEAD
Russian Test Victims? (NX Prtu Asm—Copyright) LONDON. Oct. 18. Hundreds of sea birds found dead along England's east Anglian coast are believed to be victims ot Russian nuclear teats. Teats revealed the birds were “unusually radioactive," a research committee was told yesterday. Dr. E. Duffy, the chief scientific officer at a research centre at Monkswood. Bedfordshire. was speaking io members of the Norwich and Norfolk Research Committee, “The Times" reported A naturalist, Mr Edward Ellis said: "Hundreds of fulmars (a species of sea bird) were found dead and it happened at the time the Russians were carrying out tests. “The birds affected . . . are rare in this country but come from the Arctic where the tests were being carried out The newspaper did not sav exactly when the dead birds had been found.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29956, 18 October 1962, Page 6
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