ATOMIC BOMB VICTIMS

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1945, Page 2

ATOMIC BOMB VICTIMS

Still Dying in Japan 280,000 CASUALTIES AT FIRST NEW YORK, August 22 The Associated Press of American .says: Japanese are reported to have died mysteriously a few days after the atomic blasts. Most likely Urey suffer from the effects of neutron stear from concentrated neutrons. These rays have been produced in the University o California and applied to animals which died within a few days because the rays destroyed a lot of white blood corpuscles Tokio radio states that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed or injured 280,000 people and rendered' 200.000 homeless, but many more victims of the attacks are dying daily from burns. A total of 60,000 were killed in Hiroshima where the bomb hit a central part of the city during _ working hours. The number of dead is mounting as many who were burned cannot survive. Because of uncanny effects which the bomb produces on the human body, even those slightly burned appeared quite healthy a. first but they weakened after a lev; days for some..unknown reason and have frequently died- The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima affected an area 30 kilometres in diameter in which practically all the houses were either blown up,' knocked down or burned down. Hence it is difficult to count all the bodies, many of which are buried under collapsed buildings. The sight of the wounded women and children defies description. A Japanese defence headquarters technician, Zutezo Torn, reporting on the Hiroshima bomb said. Unlike an ordinary bomb, it apparently continued to build. up increased pressure after the first impact. People who witnessed the monstrous spectacle said they saw ripples circulate from the explosion and a blacu shower,, apparently some form or liquid, rained down five to ten minutes after the explosion, staining The American Associated lies 3 says: The neutron rays from the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly in the air. ft is also likely that neutrons steaming from the bomb flash struck particles of the earth, causing them to emit their own streams of neutrons and become temporary injurious, lhe outstanding act about all these rays however is the ease with which air ana earth can disperse them to a point of harmlessness.