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SUCCESSFUL HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS
For Ike Announcement
THE whole of Asia waits
THE
with some impatience, not untinged with anxiety; for Indications of the line of policy Mr Eisenhower, the American President-elect, intends to adopt relating to the Pacific. Interests are us conflicting as viewpoints, und while there are morits in Mr Casey's suggestion that Mr Eisenhower should pay a personal visit to Southeast Asin trouble spots after he has been to Koren, the danger nlao exists that such a tour might well leave him more! confused in mind than if he
rests content with briefings and reports from expert advisers, Nevertheless, in
due course, Mr Elsenhower will be expected to clarify his attitude to a number of problems affilcting the Pacific and the Far East. First consideration Kóreu. While it js recognised that Eisenhower dosirea as keonly as anyone a quick end to hostilities, his vngue election campaign references to the possibility of leaving "Asians to fight
any
By US
Atomic Energy Commission
WASHINGTON, NOV. 16.
THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION TODAY AN- NOUNCED THAT SUCCESSFUL HYDROGEN BOMB TESTS HAD BEEN HELD AT THE ISOLATED ENIWETOK PROVING GROUNDS IN THE PACIFIC AND SAID SCIENTISTS WERE PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS.
While the Commission did not say it in so many words, its announcement made it clear that America had exploded the world's first hydrogen bomb. The wording of the announcement suggested several might have been set off. The Commission accompanied its report on the supersecret periments" with a warning to Russia that the United States would con- tinue its studies looking toward development of the awesome H-bomb.
It said lack of any effective and enforceable arrangements for con-
trol of atomic armaments demanded it.
Englishwoman Questions Suspect
The Commission's statement apparently meant that the United Mau Mau
States had beaten Russia in the race for the first H-bomb.
US scientists
have assumed that the Soviets have been working on such a weapon since their atomic experiments were successful.
ex-
ploded its first atomie weapon
at the Monte Bello istanda of AS
northwest Australia that the United States might be keeping secret the fact that the world's first full-scale hydrogen bomb had been exploded.
Spreads To The Coast
BIG ROUND-UP OF NATIVES
Asians”, has caused some perturbation. Nothing at this time could more injure the prestige of the United
The H-bomb gains tremendous, authoritative American science after Britain successfully Nations than the wholesale destructive force through fusion. writer known to be in clost withdrawal of American rather than fission. In the A-touch with developments, forces from Korea. Nor bomb
the nuclei
of the atoms "constituting the greatest treat would it be calculated to are broken up to release a Bery to the human race since the help bring the war to rush of energy. This is Assion. Black Death (mid 14th century)."
In the H-bomb, certain hydrogen satisfactory conclusion.
FLOOD OF LETTERS nuciel of the atoms are fused is Inconceivable that Mr
Mr Dean, in response to re- to create helium, releasing far porters' qustions today, said the world recorded a major carth- Selsmographs throughout the
Mombasa, Nov. 16. Eisenhower haa at
assion of Commission was
The first official news of investigating, moment given thought to the more energy than
uranium or plutoniumn.
with a view to possible prosecus quake in the Pacific on Novem- abandonment of Korea by
great tidal wave, the United States; neverthe The 11-bomb requires 10 to tion, a flood of letters from Tasker This was followed by a Mau Mau activity: on the coast of Kenya, 800 miles Force personnel purporting to
Press reports purporting to from the main-trouble spots. less, the world will expact 25
describe a
hydrogen bomb test came from eyewitnesses me of from him a clear statement material' as the A-borib "For shot on November 1
ser in the Kikuyu tribal 'arca-. them said to be Americón on what he considers to be this reason, among others, the
Letters began arriving in the vicemen in ships taking part in was reported today. first explosion does not mean the future policy pertaining to the Korean problem after the H-bomb will be, available Jn. United States over a week ago the Eniwetok tests--graphically
from persons at Entwetok who described "the huge orange ball" An oath taking ceremony was quantity immediately or will ho has completed his visit replace the A-bomb altogether. tory's first hydrogen bomb ex Will said they had witnessed his
discovered yesterday, four miles by the explosion.
in Mombasa AN the Eniwetok testa
southern since from to the war front.
AEC announcement said
ement said plosion If the letter writers QEYOND Korea, Mr Eisen- the
the first in 1018 have been scaled Kenya and 12 Kikuyu tribesmen, recent experiments hud chiefly Junior officers and crew. hower will also have to accomplished a remarkable feat
were ar- were Mau Mau markings
rested. Two Kikuyu women scene actually saw, what they usually tight restrictions formulate and indicate the and, while it did not specifically members of ships near the of to Press and public, but un-all bearing the felltale secret were also arrested in Mombasa now American Government's mention the H-bomb, spoke of described, the weapon obviously imposed this year.
ONE REPONT
today. policy concerning a number contributions, to "thermonuclear lived up to its unofficial billing
which ts of a "hell Bomb."
nouncement from
President-elect
times
The
much
nuclear
text of today's
caused
from
for
Mrs Grace Turnbull, an expert in Kikuyu tribal custome and language, having lived all her life amongst the tribe, nits at a table (centre) while an alleged killer, a member of the Mau Mau terrorist secret society, is, finger-printed and quës. doned (right), in the Fort Hall area of Kenya, about 50 miles to the northeast of Nairobi. 'Sitting next to her (left) is an African child, son of a murdered Kikuyu and an identification witness. The child is now under police protection for fear of reprisals. At the far end of the table is a police officer,
London Express.
Four Killed
In Ambush
were
seven
Gabes, Tunisia, Nov. 16.
Four French soldiers
killed wad others wounded, four of them seriously, when ter- rorists opened fire on two buses loaded with soldiers
Hous returning from a cinema to, their camps.late last night.
The terrorists took cover behind a stone wall and walled for the two buses to fil before opening fire on the unarmed soldiers. United Prem.
Volcano In Eruption Again
Will Marry Despite Objections
London, Nov. 16.
EUROPE SHIVERS Winter Arrives Suddenly
London, Nov. 16,
Weat Europe shivered in. the grip of winter today with freezing temperatures and reports of heavy snow- falls in the north.
Thousands of skiers were out on snow-clad mountain slopes in the Austrian Tyrol where winter sports were in full swing. Danger of avalanches hod-passed be- сдиѕе of an unusumily sovero
front. Temperatures dipped to -16 deg. C (or 3.2 deg. F).
In Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, traffic was held
up until
snow ploughs cleared roads blocked by deep snow.
Cloudy skies and intermittent ́ snow squalls continue through- · out Switzerland.
Freezing temperatures in the. uplands have made mountain roads dangerous and drivers org warned to use chaina.
In Paris Icy winds blowing under an overcast sky brought the temperature down to & deg, C (or 42.8 deg. F). Light snow- falls were
forecast tonight in Paris and Normandy and morning frost in most parts of Northern France.
In Copenhagen heavy snow this afternoon surprised Danes who do not expect such thick falls until late Dezember.
In Holland
slect and rain poured from a cloudy sky with Temperatures hovering around freezing point,
Ardennes
A white drummery 29 The first snow of winter fall year-old Louis Bellson, Jr. in Brussels tonight as tempera- arrived here today from tures fell to around freezing New York to marry, despite point.
Snow pleo fell in West Bel- his father's objections, a nium and over the coloured singer, 84-year-old in the east-Reuter. Miss Pearl Bailey. They will marry on Wednesday,
When told. ' of his father's threat to disown him, Bellson said: "It is not like my father. He is a bit confused and Influenced by local gossip. We will definitely get married on Wednesday".
And
young Fatal Fall-
Through Hatch
Calcutta, Nov: 16.
Miss Belley, whose A fire brigade rescue squad, father is an evangelist parson | pumping water out of the 8,409- the United States, said: ton cargo vessel City of Bristol "There is only one race-the yesterday found the body of human race".
She told Reuter
received a long
He had fallen a diali.
The Los Angeles Examiner of other problem. France weapons research,"
Several others reported an said on November 8: "It is Police and troops today carried understood to mean the hydro- will be anxlous to know?
bomb.
exoct time for the reputed likely that the tremendous force out one of the biggest sweeps gen whether he is willing to
the offelal an- hydrogen bomb explosion--7,15 of the H-Bomb the world's since the emergency bugan The text of commit the United States,
and terrorist suspects in the moun- "Joint Task a.m., Eniwack time, November first vaporised into gas or to use his influence to nouncement sald:
132 operating for the 1-One other letter, referred, dust the atoll, half-mile wide and tainous North Kinatgop...arca Force commit the Valted Nations, Department of Defence and the perhaps by error, to October 1 three miles long, on to active participation in United States
The Atomic Energy
Com-detonation took on which the rounding up 1,500 Africarus,
Chief Officer Jack Drummond After intensive screaming 208 The article was based on a the Indo-China conflict with Commission, has concluded a mission announcement said the
she had lying on a pile of manganese cable from ore in the tioning. Of these 00 were a view to bringing it to a third series of weapons develop latest series of tests, like that in better a Los Angeles citizen had were detained for further quen-
Bellson Scrior, asking her not "was designed to further received Eniwetok Atoll in 1031,
a friend who
45 fect through rapid end. The Chinese ment tests
San Diego, Nov. 16.
to marry his son. the development of various types claimed to have watched the charged with various offences
a burning jute hatch which Nationalists in Formosu will the Marshall Islands.
test.
Twenty Africans were found The San Benedicto Island
In linols, Belison Senior, caught fire the day before and Greenhouse Series of weapons." probably expect 3 pro- "Like the
recon burned for 12 hours before it it was designed
The blast," the letter writer in possession of prohibited pub volcano, 870 miles south said: "I will never to 1951,
10 The announcement added that 10
ciled to it." the in
the development further.
of the "leaders and members of the sald, was watched through dark lications, and in ene African's of San Diego, was in erupt-
But Mrs Balloon Scalor sends was extinguished. various types
a huge hut police found what they de of weapons. In
Inmilltary and civilian components glasses. It resembled
in The City of Bristol arrived at whether or not the United furtherance of the President's of the Task Force accomplished orange ball which grew larger elared to be subversive litera-lon again today-belching, wishes of "all the happiness
to her son. She Kidderpore docks from Chaina, Polico believe that this smoke and ashes at four to the world's States is prepared
announcement of January 31, a remarkable feat of precision in and brighter until it appeared ture.
and: "I do not object, to the East Paklatan, with a cargo of encourage and support any 1950, the tast programme in planning and
and as if no dark glasses were there African was the local operations
the Mau Ma Tent for five minutes intervals,
son to Miss Juto and was loading manganeso Lieutenant Jim Ball, pilot of marriage of my military moves from cluded experiments contributing have the commendation of tho at all.
Bally and when they return oro'for the United States when A letter writer to the Times Police in the
district a Navy plane which flew a thermonuclear weapons Department of Defence and the Taiwan against the Chinese to
be open
to the fire was first discovered.- Atomic Energy Commission." ia, Ohio on November 10 sald arrested 20 Africans who were Fleet camera party and three my home will them"-Reuter,
Reuter. mainland. Here though, un research."-United Press.
In replying to reporters' ques- the flames, two miles wide, allot about to attend a Mau Mau Scripps Institution of. Oceano- RESULTS SATIFY tions about the letters, Mr Dean five miles into the air, and that meeting. One of them was shotgraphy scientists
the over said: "Information Issued by the heat was 180 degrees when in the hip as he tried to escape. volcano today, sald on his re- mind by his advisers and
Washington, Nov. 10.
Commission it reached him 30 miles away. Routing police and army co
that smaller eruptions of throughout Worldwide speculation that the Atamle Energy it! political colleagues,
and ashes every continucu in the Eniwetolt test series, 1050,
He added: "Within alx hours, sweeps appears unlikely that he the United States had exploded is limited to today's statement an island that once had paim the day in the Nyeri, Fort Hall seconds also were noted.
amplification might PAK | because
Ball said a large lava slob would countenance exten- the world's first hydrogen bomb
trees and cocoanuts was now and Nakuru districts-Reuter. received no direct confirmation
150 to 200 feet down inside the. nothing. The island had actually
crater appeared to be keeping disappeared."--Reuter,
the volcano from "blowing ila top."
less Mr Eisenhower ju porsuaded to, change his
PERTUBRED
sion of military operations when the American Atomic give it to potential enemies. against Communism, for he Energy Commission today 4772- has gone en record ns being nounced the conclusion of o new of the opinion that he does series of successful atomic tests "Our objectives of protecting not consider an-amphibious at the mid-Paclac proving the security of information in expedition against the China ground nt. Eniwetok atoll.
the tests have in general been MOSSADEGH'S
events
of
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NEW MOVE
Govt. Sues
Vast Du Pont
Concern
the. Du Pont
75
Other members of the party told of hearing intermittent low rumbles while flying over the volcano, the only active one in the Eastern Pacific. It started crupting in August and by late In September had built a cone more than 1,000 feet high.
Commission 13 mainland could achieve any The short announcement didattarent. The
over
the decisive result. A third not say specifically whether a concerned, however,
describo connection question that will, in time, full-scale hydrogen bomb hau let.ers purporting to
Investiga
Teheron, Nov. 10, the -tests, be nosed to Mr Eisenhower been detonated, but it gave the some
that the Eniwetok with
load- The Persian Premier, DF are under way
Ball Badd visibility during is his attitude to Britain's which a Jointtions
pokaible disciplinary Mohammed Mossadegh, by the
the flight was very poor. He desire and request to be Task Force took part, involved ing to
Chicago, Nov. 18.
hed to fly through a series 'of associated with ANZUS. both standard nuclear fission action or prosecution for violat- use of his special powers, today
sla's Supreme Court of Justice The United Stater Govern- storing with ice and snow at The Truman Administration and hydrogen nuclear fusion." Ing Task Force regulations or ordered the dissolution of Par has made it painfully clear) Speaking of the series of shots the law.
"Making public further in-wind instructed the Justice Minia- ment is due to open its essa on 10,000 feet.
Scripps scientists aboard ava the Chairman of the that the propoedl la frowned a whole, Mr Gordon Dean, formation as to the nature and the to appoint judges to co- Tuesday in a Federal court civil
sult designed to break up the the plane were: James M. tests might stute a new Supreme Court. But Britain has end in his announcement that results of these upon.
A rew law also authorises the $6,000,000,000 Du Pont Industrial Snodgrass, head of the Special Department, and strong and legitimate claims clentine executives for the injure the intereste
monopoly. member of the judjelary within contends is
Douglas L. Inman and Adrian to be taken into the Pacific tells have expressed satisfaction United States. We will make Justice Minister to retire any empire, which the Government Divisions
no further announcements." Security Council, and it with the results.
The Government alleges that Richards, geologists. No postal censorship was enthe next two months respective
to to attempts Inmily controla a of retirement age and service.
In addition to President Truman gave the may be assumed that any
Observers noted at or stock in three holding replying to
com-photograph the volcano efforts change of attitude on the order for the development of the forcet at Eniwotok, but
made to record the part of Washington after hydrogen bomb on January 31, spokesman sald,
EI. Du Pont do. Nemours and sounds. Results of the sound Mr Eisenhower has assumed 1940, to see to be that our questions, that all such opera Premier Bhavam Es Sultanch's panics, which in turn control u office would be welcomed country is able to defend itself tlons had certain security re-trins is due to begin shortly.
rulations applied to distribution Supreme Court in Company, the chemicals com-recordings will not
ilor is interpreted as being pro
General Motors pany
In until tomorrow. "Associated just as much by Australia against any possible aggressor."
As the experimenta proceeded, of information,
Reports began to circulate moted by a Government desire corporated, and a major block Press. and New Zealand 'no' by "the hell bomb" was described
In November month to preclude prejudice from the
of stock
in United States Britain,
by Mr William L. Laurens, an early
justices during the trial-Reu-
Rubber. ter.
The suit claims that Du Pont. General Motors and United Highway Tragedy states Rubber violated the
Naples, Nov. 16. tai look out for the
Fribourg, Switzerland, Nov. 16. Sberman Anti-Trust Act, a Inw
A now Venus has been dis- London, Nov. 16, credited source" who had later tlons
Two boys walking along the designed to prevent restrictive Britain's leading internal news reaffirmed the information, but American.. agency tonight cancelled a story it had not been confirmed else-
A high shipping official at road to attend church at nearby roonopolies in industry, by covered.at excavations near here. hours
It is a finely chiselled bust of they had put out two
whore.
Southampton, main terminal Marly-le-Grand were struck by restraining trade through secret This one, too, la without arms,
rebates and by dividing among a car travelling at high speed themselves several -before- that security otheera 'at
liners
Gelde of the goddess, much larger than passenger Spokesmen at the Home Office for sea and air ports throughout the
Bald tonight: "No today and killed instantly.
manufacture to eliminate con- life size. It was found in ruins country had been ordered to and Scotland Yard, London America,
for or lookout search
The two boys, Michel Nideg- any watch crib fari an American
The Government will sock a archaeologists describe it as one threatened police headquarters, denied any American is being made. We ger, D, and Gerard Rowaler, 15, petition. The charges are denied, at Masseria del Gigante.. Italian reported to žuve
Imowledge of a threat to the have received no information were walking with two other court order dircoling the Du of the most important discoveries Princess Margaret,,
sister of Queen whatsoever about the alleged boys, who escaped injury.--- Pons Company to soll its Cieneral { in many years. Associated The Press Association said the 22-year-old
Associated Press.
Motors tock-Roper/ ptory hind come from a "properly Elizabeth, or of special instruc-threat.”—Reuter,
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