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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 7

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FATE OF HIROSHIMA

JAPANESE REACTION OF HATE (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.] Rec. 11.30 a.m. : , . NEW YORK, September 4. "For its size, no city in the world is so completely wiped out as Hiroshima," says a correspondent of Hie Associated Press who has just visited the first target on which the atomic bomb was used. "Fewer than a dozen buildings stand forlornly in the midst of the ruin ,of what was once supposed to be Japans most modern city. By contrast, Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin seem untcuched. Block after block in Hiroshima contains only a thin covering of rusting tin, a few stones, some broken bricks, and .twisted frames. "The only air raid shelter to escape the bombing was army headquarters, under 18 feet of earth and concrete. From the centre of the city there is absolutely nothing left standing for two miles in any direction. Nearly a month after the bomb was dropped, the stench of death is terrible —worse than that of the battlefields in Normandy." A Japanese reporter who visited Hiroshima shortly after the bombing said: "The people of Hiroshima hate you. They think you are the most fiendish and most cruel people .oa earth.". The Japanese said that no attempt would be made to rebuild the city and I that the entire area would be evacuated until scientists declared it safe.

MORE REPORTS ON EFFECTS

OF BOMB TOKIO, September 4. "Secondary radiation" turned tha green hills behind Hiroshima brown, several days after the atomic bomb attack, according to Japanese newspaper men. Green ricefields five miles distant were also completely browned.' Many of the wounded victims who were taken to hospital became insane. Physicians said they could find no remedy for the effects of the bomb. Persons 10 miles away were paralysed in the spine. Residents of Hiroshima calmly stood and watched the atomic bomb, anchored by two parachutes, slowly fall. It exploded at 1000 ft. An official source at Yokohama said that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima wiped . out the , headquarters of the Japanese 2nd Army and killed some generals. The official count of the casualties a fortnight after the bombing was 33,000 dead, 30,000 missing, 13,950 seriously wounded, and 43.500 other wounded. By September 1 the death toll reached 53,000 because many of those who were originally listed as slightly injured died from no apparent cause.

MOST PROBABLE USE

Rec. 9 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 4. Two American scientists, Dr. H, Winn and Dr. G. Suits, said that tha most probable peacetime application of atomic energy would be in the form of heat. • However, this is .not likely in tht near futurel^Both; men, who participated ill the" development of tha atomic bomb, consider it technically possible to use nuclear energy as a source of power, but believe it is too early to predict whether this is economically practical.