THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1959.
Space A-Blasts
DISCLOSURE Aided
FOR PM'S BENEFIT
From CHAPMAN PINCHER
London, March 19..
POSSIBLE. resumption
US
Defence
Washington, March 19.
Deputy Defence Secretary Donald A. Quarles said today that secret high, altitude atomic explo- sions over the South Atlantic had advanced America's ability eventually to develop de fences against ballistic missiles,
of H-Bomb tests will be discussed by Mr Macmillan and Presi- dent Eisenhower in He Washington this week.
This is the reason for the
disclosure yesterday that American nuclear bombs were secretly exploded in space seven months ago, United States Military chiefs, who want
to resume testing, timed the news to coincide with Macmillan's arrival,
told a news conference that the three explosions of "very low yield" nuclear devices "advanced the basis of knowledge" for an anti-intercontinental ballistic missile defence system.
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Quarles and Dr Herbert Tork, Defence Research Director, met reporters in a two-hour session, marked by unusual caution answering questions, after news of the tests last August And September first broke last night,
Thoy paid
explosions verified that an artificial band
Bround the
the
They fear that his opposition to resuming aurbear tests unless the Ruasions do sp Brst bas of radiation could be created at been strengthened by his fullts jo high altitude with Kheushchev,
earth.
These Disclosure of
space While Quaries said the testa expludunt, s'aged 300 miles upesh need ultimate development by ruchetienne bombs, Is laut defence against inissiles, an tended to convince, Americanatomie authority dropped public opinion that tests should strong hit that á major aim of be resume for these reasons: the tesis was to see if radio and radar communications could be disruptext by creating the artif
Secrecy
the con-
• It proves nuclear excini radiation hundreds of miles plosions can be carried out in above the earth. absolute secrecy despite findings of the Geneva ference that long-range de- fections could be infallible.
•
The fussians may be alko exploding rocketborne bombs in space for
Wealt all the knows.
It disposes of the outer thai H-Bomb tesis must be stopped because of the danger of radioactive fall-out.
⚫ The radivactive debris from explosions 300 miles up is dispersed in space.
This might black out Russlan
T American—systems for detreiing missiles and Mặt.
Janen.
Quarlee said that there was no question that on artificially- created electron layer would affect the propagation of electro-magnette waves, that is radar and indio communications,
"Some Effect"
D
He acknowledged that there
some effect on nation's radar system used for detection of Incoming missiles and aireraft.
• Further space froin ex-could plosions is essential if the West is to produce counter mea- Aures to bullistic missiles in which Russt hus
a substantial lead.
Three Bombs
Three melon-sized test bombs were used muinly to provide Information abou! what happens when
atomie explosion occurs in the near-vuruum of spnec.
But he pointed out that the electron radiation wou have "different effecia on different wave lengths", and be refused ta be specifo ox to what effects there might be on existing American radar. The implication seemed to be that the tests would help selent As there is no air there can Ílsta learn more about the radar be no blast. So the bomb ranges and frequencies needed must either destroy an in-in a future delection syajem.
misslie coniug
by በre radiation. The arientists wanted to know the width of the fireball produced 300 miles up to ser whether they stand a chance of
or
York said that from a scien- tific standpofut the tests pro- duced "nothing that was Breal conillet with anything known before."
in
catching highspeed missiles in 10 "Major Experiment"
They also wanted a measure the strength
bomb of certain
warhead of an
Asserting that the explosions
particles called neutrons which at 300-mile altitude were a might conceivably be used to "major experiment" but de- initely not the greatest of the century or anything like that," York said they showed;
Thai an atomie explosion would inject high energy elec- trons outside the atmosphere
neutralise thr incoming rocket.
Britain orightally · agreed to suspend teals until this October 31 but withdrew the offer alter Hussia staged further explosions,
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In a region covered by the earth's magnolia Üctd and that the electrons would be trapped for minutes to years depend- Ing on the energy with which they were put there.
rockets
That satellites and could learn and tell science a great deal about the ille and stability of electron shields-, that is, bands of radiation. "That is essentially what has accomplished on the Relentifle side," York said.
been
Quarles said the three ex- plosiony took place on Aug. 27, Aug. 39 and Sept. 6, all ni. about 300 miles altitude.
Ho would not slate the latitudo and longitude frum which the Navy's research misslie ship, the US.S. Norton Sound, carried out the firings.
Rockets
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Dr William J. Thaler, Navy project officer, said the nuclear devices were launched with three-stage rockets.
The rockets were modified X-17's like those used by the Air Force and Navy in per- fecting warheads that can re- enter the earth's atmosphere without burning up.
Quarles wald that the testa had very substantial military Implications" and the most Immediate effects would be in the field of defence rather than offence.
While "not directly Involved" in anti-missile programme, he auld, they had a "fundamental bearing" because they advanced knowledge of the interaction of radiation with. the earth's magnetic field."-UP.I.
Coldest Place
On Earth
—126 Deg. Below
Moscow, March 19. Hoviet Antarctle explorers have discovered the coldest place on earth, where steel tubes break under a hammer blow
Who Cares About The King?
Carol Withoy, 17-year- old art #tudent from Bournemouth, this week married Prince Henry Kimera, 31, and became sister-in-law of Buganda's King Freddie.
Bald the new Princess of reparts that brother-in- did not like Jaw Freddie mixed marriages and might be angry:
"Who cares about King Freddie? Our marriage has nothing to do with him. Ho is only on the throne, We don't intend to vo in
· Buganda,
spend Just bolldays there, We may settle In the South of France."
Of her new Tale Carol rald: "I shall try to be as dignified us I can,"
Of her cantiship: "It was a sort of appreciation each other's intelli-
of rence."
Policeman's
Murderer To Hang
London, March 19. Ronald Marwood, 25-year- old scaffolder, was to- night sentenced to death at the Old Bailey for stab- bing a policeman to death after a gang fight outside a dance hall in Holloway, North London.
Indians
(On The Warpath)
Fail To
See Ike
Washington, March 19. One hundred American In- dians from New York State, many in feathered headdresses, today
paraded outside the White House in a vain attempt to give President Eisen- hower personally a list of "bitter injustices" alleged- ly suffered by their race. The Indians, members of the, six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, are kinsmen of Indions who revolted in Canadian reserve a fortnight ngo and sought to secede from Canada to become a separate state.
The Iroquois Confederacy in New York also claims recognition as a sovereign na- tion,
IMPERIAL DOORS OF
+
JAPANTM CLOSE UP AGAIN
Tokyo, March 19. The Imperial Family which opened ils doors to wealthy commoner Michi- ko Shoda four months ago snapped thom shut with the announcement that Princess Suga would marry a bank clerk with noblo lineago but money.
Suga'o úinnce
littlo
Hisanaga
Shimazu, a tall be-spectacled man of 25 whose family re- ports an Income
only 50,000 yen (IIK$828) a month. Bhimaru's family register, how- ever, in more impressive than
·his financial rating.
He is a first cousin of Emprese Nagako whose mother was Shimazu's father's sister. This makes him a first equin removed of Prince KS Sura. She 酒 five yearu younger than he is.
once
Hla Utem-
Shimaru bears one of Japan's
most princely name.
established ancestors selves as powers on Klushu Island nearly 800 years ago and
into the krew
Doble Hatsomia clan.
Sblmasu's
Contrast
engagement
to
In
to the
Princess Suga stands niriking
contrast engagement last November of Crown Prince Akilo to Michiko Shoda.
The Crown Prince shattered 26 centuries of tradition by bringing a commoner into the Imperial Family but he also
Princess Suga
happened to pick one of the wealthiest commoner in Japan, sfuck to tradition's Sugs
dictates and rot herself a mem- ber of an extremely blue blood family but one whose fortunes have declined since the end of World War II.
Bura
A
fact will bring dowry of 15 million Fen (HK$250,000) in her husband. The Bhimaxu family played
key role in returning power.
the
the throna during tumultuous Melji restoration of 1868 which set Japan on the road to modern industrial power. U.P.I.
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Test Tube Births Not Adultery
SAYS CHURCH MAGAZINE
Milan, Italy, March 19. Artificial insemination is a most serious moral offence but does not constitute adultery, a magazine edited by members of the powerful Roman Catholic' Jesuit Order said today.
The opinion
on artificial in- scraination and adultery pub- Ushed
the by
magazine {Social Aggiornamenti Social! Cilallons) conflicted with the recent ruling of an Italian civil
The Indians failed to see the President but a secret service couri. man at the White House gate told them he would take any Carla Cezarotti an adulteress petition to the President,
Treaty
Police stood by вя the Indians, colourfully-dressed both men and women, marched slowly up and down for more than an hour.
Wallace (Mad Bear) Ander
signed with a treaty George Washington in 1764, the six-nation Indians were
The court termed teacher
because her child was conceived by artificial insemination.
The magarlas sald; “It does not look as if the baɛle ox- ments of artificial insemina- tion constitute (what là con- sidered) the classical ulit of adultery.
"Pending a better judgment, we do not think that a woman
inseminated in that way should The jury, after considering i their verdict for nearly three, their spokesman, said that be punished as an adulteress." hours, found him guilty of the
The magazine sald, however, as it made of glass, the Soviet capital murder
it still would be of Police Con-
an "immoral news agency lang said today, stable Raymond Sumners by Vually Sidorov.head of Le stabbing him win entitled to take their grievance" if the husband were the directly fo the President donor or constatted to mother Soviet
Marwood, who pleaded not
man acting as donor-UPI. Vosick. who La now
guiltys stout with his hands Moscow fold reporters that chened, in front of hún and 10- In July 1968 the lowest tem- | pcared unmoved as the judge perature Byer recorded on pronounced sentence. earths minus 87.4 degrees The prosecution's Centigrade (about 120
Antarctic
case was
Router.
Not Golf,
Sir!
• Columbus, Ohlo, March 19,
asked that caddies be exempted
Fake Party Gets Votes
The Hague, March 19.
from a $1 hourly minimum wage A political party which does bill during hearings measure.
that Marwood struck the police- degrees Fahrenheit below man in the back with, a diver's; zero) was registered at Vostok, Į undersea kalle after a Kang State Rep. Richard Metcalf The Vostok station at the fight last December outside a Ecomagnetic Bouth Pole, Is dance hall in Seych Sisters
Marwood denied in the wit- ness box that he had a knife an the evening in question but said he struck Summers in the face. Reuter.
about 10,744 feet above sea | Road. level and the staff had to contend with lack of oxySGIL. It took about five hours to cook a hot liquid meal, Mr Sidorov Bald. Reuter.
on
The
"It would ruin the game golf by speeding it up," explained-U.P.I..
Baker Cremated Wife
Tours, France, March 19.
Pierre Duport, a 35-year-old
baker of La Celle-Saint
THEN BAKED
Avant, was sentenced to TOWN'S BREAD:
forced labour for life to-
of
not exist Fot 1,540 votes, or 0.02 per cost of the total, in the Netherlands elections,
The party was registered in he Amsterdam and Utrecht by a nian who hua since been
admitted to a mental home.
Other municipalities refused
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