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SOMETHING TO CHEER
It's all in a glass of
water
By Chapman Pincher
B
are
London.
a
RITISH atom scientists
working on fantastic new project aimed at producing limitless power for industry, ships, and homes.
11 is a bold bid to tame the tremendous energy of the hydrogen-bomb
Can
so that
it
be used to generate
electricity.
If i surveed: and there are
5. und
J
believing
Litic+M -
Day
that progress has been pretedly
matund It
possible to get the power 000 tong of coal that of the
hydrogen
of water.
contained in a glass
Uranium expemive and dan- gerous with radiometivity, would
bentilazed H
Retenule power.
JL
NQUIVO
THE FUEL
Hydrogen Tar
refatively
cheup compound called Within deuteride would become the
fuel of the fatury.
The work as being carf work nl Fri
ff grent secrecy at atomie research stations at Har- well al Aldermaston, Berk shire.
Rumors
mrclear
nut
the przwer
thermine trehnted
have
term for H-bomb energy
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1955.
IF IKE'S PROPOSAL REALLY CAUGHT ON
'Many more of these short-notice inspections by the Russians and they'll start a cold war all over again."
London Expresa Bervice
The man from
DID HAPPEN?
T
were
HERE
only three of us in the compartment as the train rumbled
been circulating among univer- arty seleutists for months.
The existence of the otticial wards Bolzano and the Alps. project was confirmed for the My wife, pale and motion- Last time when a spokesman of
the Atomic Energy Authority Aud: "It is true that postbilt- thes of using thermo-nuclear re- actions for power purposes are being explored by scientists
•
the Atomic Energy Authority. We can give 5569 further in-
formation."
THE MEN
Two teaS HE working on the project,
IN
Team No. 1 at Aldermaston led by Sir William Penney wn offshoot of the huge jroup. which is developing the hydros gen-bomb for defence.
the past
trudes
✪ Three people in a railway carriage ..
but one was an SS man, Did this story
REALLY happen? The answer will be published on Monday.
the fatherland. We had packed our few bays
and set cut for America and freedom. And now
this.
studium, One group after another berut hustled into it' wa
doors wern bed. Just when li war our turn a young SS than came up:
The train roared into the long I have ozlem to accompany and to-
cutting through the you personally. Get a move on,
Brenner Pass. In the emergency We cimbed into
into a first-class lighting compartment
Wo silently clasped and flopped into hands. the twe
We had nothing to window scata.
say. The After 35 mbuks the train came sudden
silene? opprezzive
but on the other side and the stunned me completely, and I
un streamed through the was unable to think at all.
win
жете We days.
now in the midst of clean mow-clad moun- tafins etched sharply against the blue city: It was as if we had emerged into another world-as if the last few hours could have bern nothing but a nightmare, We looked at each other and
less, stared out of the win dow at the green monotony which stretches along the valley of the River Po. The young SS man, tall, blond, and sun-tanned,
was whis
tling a sentimental tune and illy looking out of the win dow across the corridor.
Certainly be was not think ing of the two of us, The fact that we were his prisoners pul {!;it
responsible for he wis handling us over to the prison guards in Augsburg was nemly established in his mind that once the train bad started ho elid not give us another thought. We were only routine job-two German Jews
50
Team No. 2 Harwell is led by Dr Eton Bretscher, head of the nuclear physles division, who was recently revealed ng a ploneer of H-bomb research by } out of thousands being rounded Dr Edward Teller, the chief
up in Italy to be sent to con- scientist behind the American
centration camps in Germany. H-bomb,
Son
In addion Sir George Thom-
and
other outside con sullants to the Atomic Energy Authority have been carrying out theoretical studies un
the
problem.
America and tusan are
Beyed to be working
011
be the
hydrogen
power project,
Britain mny be in the
but lead
because of a secret advance in H-bomb theory made by Sir William Penney,
THE METHODS
is
con-
It is because of this advance that the Government fident can base its defence policy 001 hydrogen bombs, though 110 British hydrogen weapon has yet been tested.
Two possible methods of con- frolling the power contained in thermo-nuclear fuels are being investigated..
Past the ship
I pulled myscir together with jerk- must try and think calmly. Why hadt we two not bern it into cattle truck likee
d
the others? Why did they give us a special guard and put us in
first-class
compartment? Somehow I felt that if only 1 could find the reason for this milled. there was still hope us. It would give ne
"
.
chance 10 work out some
plu which
mal
might save our lives. At that moment the SS was the only person who might help me to and the right
answer.
and
"I began very carefully As I looked at the lovely sun-
over-casually. I outside remurica "drenched scenery
imply could not make myself
the beautiful realise that they were taking us
scenery, olk to Germany. Only
an
The
hours ago we had been standing
ine lavely weather:
happily at the window of OLIF
but he did not answer. I ask-
little hotel in Genoa watching cd him for the
the steamer which was to take uta to New York. And, Avhen the
doar
opened
the
and
two ngures n operatta-like
tho beautiful uniforms
the of Italion Curabiniere entered our room and asked us most politely to accompany them, we had not the slightest suspicion of dan
ger.
They helped us into the back of a lorry and we were driven through the harbour and past our ship. But when we stopped The first la electrient and again and again to pick up depends on the discovery
German re- with modern atom-splitting fugees all over the town I know machines snill amounts of something terrible was in store matier can be heated momen- tartly to temperatures of more than a million degrees,
that
Inore
At such temperatures minute amounts of-H-bomb fuel may be induced
to set free energy
at a controllable rate.
The second depends on the use of specially shaped charges of ordinary high explosive to produce tremendous pressures under which thermo-nuclear fuels may burn more readily.
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
FOREIGN OFFICE
for us.
and more
time. He hardly seemed
aware
of our presence.
I filtered into silence,
zano
anct climb
for then
by
Louis
"Do you re- member when'
Suddenly he turned towards me and pushed me violently back into my corner.. "For God's sake shut up," he said.”
We said there was no mistake and that we were Jews. Thon
he began talking again.
But the train was already slow- ing down, and the 55 ma resumed his mask us TRUCOUS voices announced our arrival af
We were here Augsburg. last? Skiing at
Kitzbuhel - I'd
Hagend
LOUIS HAGEN wont to Britain as a German refugee, enlisted, ond-after Ainhem- returned as a hero with the Military Medal. Arnhem Lift, The Diary of a Glider Pilot, which he then wrote, was boat-Bollor. He also went to the For East and back to
of
Germany as a war correspon. dent. Now he is translating and editing the papers General von Schellenberg--- head of Hitler's Foreign Secret Service. Hagen lives with his wife And two
We felt as if we had suddenly forgotten it was run into a black tunnel after the 60 lovely.
We sunshine,
were curtly Slowly the SS ordered outside, lined up with man turned to the others, counted, and alloted wards us and to our Special Group. It was seemed to see like a cattle market, and we
first were us for the first
the cattle thousands of Lime
es ordinary helpless and despairing people. human beings. The trudge to the prison In some incred- cam
camp; the further numbering ible way he and division; the looked like བམ་་
Д
communal mcal
wretched like were friend, a guide, scenes in to film rather than our
that
we
A guido-
At last Own experience. We was it!
were led off to a cell.
Dimly both thought of we realised that we had been it at the same separated from the others and moment, but it
given a cel of our own- was my wife
Special Category-that was us. who spoke:
But we were pust eering, and "Weren't you soon fell into an exhausted at Kitzbuhel?" sleep. His voice was <ager, "That's right at the Grand Hotel. 1
The mitillels
children in Primrose Hill. sped past. We stopped in Bol-
short while remember you,
the began
slow "Four years ago." That's tried over the Alpe. I
right-we him to a conversation, sometimes snow and hard frost. again and again to draw
Gsglockner few minutes, at every
other like professionals." to wait times forcing, myself for half hour before malding a new atempt. But nothing could induce him to talk.
A friend
the
Bunch of keys
I was awakened by n hand touching my shoulder, Who young SS man was leaning over' climbed
me, his face pallid in the dawn powder light
"Get up and dress quietly. I shall be back for you in ten minutes," We fumbled into our clothes,
You did
We demurred politely. insisted.
He'
"No, I mean it. Most of the holiday skiers are only good for bunch sliding down hills, and have
do him through long corridors.
ma ant pushed mo violently Bewildered shook us. by the hend and
some
He returned with à large of keys. We followed At last we stopped in front of
heart attack it they have to do There was no noise except the ta impressive coking building.
any climbing."
Then
ho Inside the entrance hall a long I grew more desperate. My suddenly became serious. "But hollow sound of our footsteps queue of Jewish refugees was attempts grow snove nud slowly Allng past
othequent and mare a row
crical how on earth did you get here, and the rattling of the locks as ho hysterical. There must be come terrible opened one door after another about a dozen tables, Behind Without realising # Imistake.
faced the heavy an 55 man. moved closer and closer to him. Surely you can't be Jews?"
Impossible. At last we sal every table-
wooden door which led to the Suddenly 1. knew the worst. Suddenly le *URTUCC toronds
street. The SS mon opened it, They wern oing to ship us back to Germany.
back into
my
corner, 'For
giving me some money said: Slowly the queue moyed from God's adite dhune up, you Jewish
"Good luck to you both--it It was obviously too much for desk to desk. "Name? Ago
he sak, and turned back pic
tough--but the Place of residence in Ger- o stare out of the window.
him. We could see the terrible will be Profession?
mind between spirit that got, you up the I folt completely exhausted; conflict-in his your steamship utterly empty a beaten. Wo what he had been taught to Grossglockner should keep you think and his own opinions going." The heavy door clanged had been luely too often before,
I shut photograph but this was the end. My mind But that was no help to us.
our quickly followed up this
Two months taler we werd Budden wandered back over the last four
safely out of Germany. theal years in Germany. advantag
› you know where they are hd boon trying to leave but
What are they
WORLD COPYRIGHT: REIKAVED It seemed to me hours before had frustrated our pink.
always some terrible disaster taking us?
going to do with us? Why are the wo being separated from they finally let us sleep on the
DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? floor of a large room. And be First, they had put me into a 'rest?" fore, I know I had gone to sleep cohcontration camp. Later we
Ho turned from his private it was morning and there were were caught trying to escape to
thoughts with an effort: "You're crowds of other people dragging Flant. They put me
Category.
Speciál themselves
from the cold cou- pristni and augahy I got out, this cata crete floor.
dimo through the efforts of a We asked if this were good or 58 Guards were shouting at London banker. And after that
bad. His face told us tlie shepherding us Into queued. Ave costed for two long fearful answer. He looked hurt
many? -Hund over
Bckets fingerprints
your money.
Doors bolted
into
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Then we stood for hours on end and agonising your never know, bewildered.
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