ATCMIC BOMBS

Grey River Argus, 15 August 1945, Page 7

ATCMIC BOMBS

HIROSHIMA VICTIMS. GUAM, August 13. The Tokio radio announced that the Mayor of Hiroshima and two high Government officials were among the thousand's killed in the first atomic bomb attack. FURTHER PROTEST. LONDON, August 10. A plea that the atom bomb should be placed in the same category as poison gas and that its further- use as a war weapon should be banned, was made in a letter to Mr. Attlee from Dr. A. M. Chirgw’in and Dr. Sidney Berry, chairman and secretary respectively of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. The letter said: “The supreme task of statesmanship in the future is obviously to protect humanity from such devastating instruments of destruction’. It is our deep conviction that any steps taken in that direction will be gravely embarrassed by the use of such a weapon in the present conflict.”