H-Bomb Jitters
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Pcific Countries
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ACUATION of 37 adults, 23 ihildren and 500 British troops tom Christmas Island this th indicates that the time is ing close for Britain to explode first H-bombs “somewhere in Pacific.” jmewhere,” of course, is stmas Island and the “author ’ insist that no menace to the tries round about is being ed. t H-bombs Jitters, which have ked most of the communities n 2,000 miles of Christmas remain unabated, fact, they have spread to land, Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa and 2ook Islands, and even as far apan, where housewives are ng to stock their shelves with sd food, to be eaten as an lative to food “contaminated” dio activity. >anese fish retailers have ad customers to register if they supplies of “radioactive free during March.
Vacuees In Gilberts
j civil evacuees were taken Christmas to the Gilberts, hat remained after they and soldiers left was a skeleton in population, including a >ean district officer, and key 3 staff. 500 troops, most of them h Royal Engineers, constructed rodrome on the atoll.
Ssurance By British
the House of Commons, a ter of State for Foreign Affairs, >rmsby-Gore, said that Britain acting under established inter nal practice in warning ship to stay clear of Christmas I during the scheduled period 5 nuclear weapon tests, m March to August the tmas Island area will be closed ippmg. The Royal Navy and ;oyal Air Force will patrol the labour member had asked Mr. ny-Gore whether Britain was : under a treaty of inter lal agreement in warning Jap ships to remain outside a large pf the open sea from March August 1.
Ormsby-Gore, in reply to er question, said closure was ed under international law. refused to accept a suggestion ishermen would lose £1,000,000 ; the closure period.
Other Expeditions
,R- G. Mason, a British Lst. will lead an expedition of
eight American technicians to nearby Fanning Island next month, to study phenomena in connection with the International Geophysical Year.
A magnetic observatory is to be set up on Jarvis Island, which is the only land surface in the world close to both the magnetic and geographic equator.
Jarvis is a small, bleak, useless atoll, lying almost on the equator at 160 W. Long., and is now claimed by USA.