1948-09-18 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

HIROSHIMA

TODAY

Three years after, the first victim of the atomic bomb sees its scars as peace Here is an exclusive pen

monuments

and lens report by Richard C. Ferguson

Live'

N its third anniversary as the world's first victim of atomic

warfare, Hiroshima has a new and consuming interest over in world peace.

The shadows cast by the burst of Atom Bomb No. 1 are still etched on the side of the city gas tank.

Keloids raised by atomic radiation still swell the bodies of bomb vletim Kiyoshi Kikkawa and 9,428 other badly-burned casualties still alive.

Shinzo

Hamal,

the 34-year-old vity clerk who becue mayor, suf- . fers from an acute defciency of white corpuscles as A reminder of of the bomb.

Dut Hamai. like the rest of the elvle leaders and like countless survivors, toucher or untouched, marked the birthday of atomle warfare with a gigantic penee fes-

tival.

The Hiroshima Peser Festival Society has decided 40 preserve some of the landmarks of the A- bomb's deadly debut as a reminder to the rest of the world, animarkts like the shadows on the gas tank; like T-bridge. target for the atom bombarder; like the twisted shell of the Industrial Museum; like the slender steel tower near the centre of impnet.

The Bell Rang

the peace rounds, over which the bomb burst at 0:10 ant, on August 0. 1945 fly Hiroshima clocks). 1948's big noise at the ex- wet saine mament was the pealing of a pence bell, and the flutter of wings of white doves released the bell rang

The Hiroshima Penco Festival

Society, which Mayor Hamal hends, hopes some day to have a more im- posing memorial than doves, a bell, and atom bomb scars, They want ter build!

replice of Amerlen's

Statue of Liberty on the blackened site of Hiroshima Castle, which the

The urge

bomb destroyed build Hiroshima ar peace centre has, as Mayor Homal puts in mildly, "se

"severa! obstacles that must be overcotne."

Its primary function. from 1871

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WHO Australian MaJ. 8. A. Jary'e, Allied planning adviser. Hiroshima's Mayor Shlazo Hamal plans relaration of tower In background whigh marks the centre of A-bomb's Impact. The Tower survived bombing, but is not exactly on correct position.

until the surrender in World War seription from the track

of pre-

nge of atomie warfare bursl the Japanese city three

years ago,

As the

over building crunibled her head. she crawled under her desk. She WIL the only person who

excaped from the burning classroom without na injury.

ace

Today Miss Honda is n clerk indum- with the city govemmenta

trial and commercial division. When

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to Huys" would Hiroshima atand out forever na n symbol of peace to the world," she la echoing the thoughts of countless other Hilrushima survivors, from Mayor Humai on down.

Many of them began the nturie age with nothing but bitterness God + desire

Hlke for revenge, Shunsyke Yoshlokn, 22, a clerk in the city hall, who lo the interVEN- Ing three years has became the of the more active members of the Hiroshima Peace Festivat Society.

Fakutaro Okitsuki is not active In the society, but he has the same Idea. Until 0.15 m. on August 8, 1945, he was a wealthy restaurant owner. Now the family business in a small ice cream store, run by his two war-veterna

Sons,

the and family home is single room ad- jacent to the business.

Blossing In Disguise

❝ NOW think the bomb was ¿ blessing in disguise," he says to- day, "but it took me a long time to realise it. The atomic bomb the blow that destroyed our will to continue fighting."/

was

Eijiro Yamado, 58, was riding his bicycle to work when "Ichiban" struck. When he finally made his way home that evening, his hair and moustache were gone

and he was covered with blood, and his wife didn't recognize him..

Yamada and his neighbour. Taknosuk Hamasho, 55, celebrated merely the fact that they were alive and able 11. was as a port of embarkation vailing winds to tentative plans for 1945. They belong to the die-hard to talk about August 0. ter Japan's troops. Its port must an elevated railway system.

Japanese group that thinks such be developed before there can be Industrial

Japanese flock to his olce every

things us peace festivals and recon- growth. Nothing - has

struction should follow the pattern of been produced for export since the day. Some bear blueprints of fan-

the lastle brainstorms for ffiroshima's bygone centuries. war ended because most of

This rebuilding. Just as many complain with Yamuda's complaint that "life may have something to din Industrial plants, converted for

the rebuilding is munitions-making during

too slow, although is terrible today." He does, how- tha 85 percent of the city has been re have been earmarked for repara-

bulit in some tions,

ever, have three meals a day, his fashion. And Just a hair and inoustache have ambitious. for

many stay home aid complahi that Hiroshima

he is not even Mayor Hamal is the such fancy planning is useless; let back, aut he concedes

Hiroshima rebuild itself, they would certainty bring a hasty end against atomic warfare because "it has after other wars. to any confilet."

More

than

Allied city planning adviser, Major just as it S. A. Jarvic. an Australian Army earthquakes and fres.

engineer.

The walls of his office in City Bliss Wakako onda was tench. Hall, next door to the mayor, are ing her day's Arst class In covered with maps of every den Hiroshima primary school when

In Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, a doctor examines the de- formed hand of Kiyoslal Kikkawa, atom bomb vielim No. 1. He and his wife (left), both severely burned, five at the hos

pitt and are "Exfilbit A". for Important

Eltro Yaniáda (fight) and his wife, are Joined by neighbour Taknosak Hamasbo in an atom bomb anniversary toast to their sür- vilul, which Interests them

reconstruction,

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vistiers.

Exhibit No. 1

grown

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PROBABLY the least interested in

Hiroshima's future is Kiyoshi Kikkawo, who is called the No. 1 A-limb viëtim and is quartered at the Red Cross Hospital with his wife for rently exhibition to im. portant visitors.

A prime sperimen of the effects of radiation, Kikkawn's back, neck. arms and chest are covered with keloids, which have returned despite several attempts at plastic surgery. In past years he has talked free- tv and willingly posed for pictures. Today he arrogantly says the world owes him

a living, and demands Doyment when

picture is inkens Because of reports that he is on the Jananese government mayrit and kept at the hospital as

"Exhibit A.“ Allied authorities will have nothing to do with his case beyond sug gesting. he be moved out to make room in the crowded hospital.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948.

What have three years done to the city that was the target for the first atomic bomb? In Hiroshima today, traffic rolls again over the battered bridge (below), on which a B-29 focussed its bombsight on August 6, 1945.

Benide the Inductrial Museum, near to the bridge in upper pic- ture, i

woman illo a helmet with flowers in memory of her husband, killed when the building was wrecked by the atomle bo mo.

T-men hot-up the drug chase

by R. M.

MacCOLL

Keeping track of victims like Kikkawa is

to a job that will Ins! as long as reconstruction and the Pence

Society's

G Statue Liberty. Ench day. 20 Americans and 100 Throneve employees of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission 01 rheck the blood of from five to 20 women friends. IIIroshima Bomb vletims. Others A drug-crazy mobster is shot working on narcolles. And last year

WASHINGTON. T-men are at least their equals in FAMOUS Hollywood star is toughness, training, and tenacity,

seized by the police while been shot and killed by criminola, In their "war" eight T-men hava a "marijuana jag" with and nearly 60 wounded.

arc conducting 60 genealogical study.

Just now there are 181 of them

exhaustive dead by Washington detectives they made 2,330 arrests for narcotics

com-

juann.

To Ret the answers the while making his 31st robbery trafficking and 953 arresin for marl- mission seeking, its director, of narcotics safes in chemists' Lieut.-Col. Carl F. Tessmer, thinks shops. the work should go on for the next 20 to 50 years.

Although the Far and Middle East have traditionally been the sources

A famous jazz drummer goes of much of the world's smuggled Most of Hiroshima's scars should to jail after confessing he dope (Lascar seamen in British ships be gone by then.

smokes "reefers,"

have been caught with some of the Fifteen largest hauls), with Egypt the Inter- teen-aged boys and girls are national clearing house,

of late arrested in Denver, Colorado, years Mexico, America's immediate also in the middle of a "reefer neighbour to tre south, has become party."

the supplier of enormous amounts of various drugs. Fifty-five pounds of raw oplum are seized by T-men In a ship as T-men will fell you of at least 20

It has become a big business, and it enters New York from Indian porlo.

Three years after A-bomb wiped soul fila big restaurant, Fukutaro Okilanki (seated) runs ilny lee cream stand with. dife and sons. He now thinks bomb was "bleming in

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airstrips a few miles south of the Texas border where planes land and

These are disquieting symptoms take off packed with morphine and jof a malevolent discose which

is heroin, and of large and well- giving sociologists, educators, with machine-guns, which try the disciplined "Jeep armles," armed

law enforcement officers some very

Juneasy hours in America today. border at night.

The ratio of drug sildiets to the Drug-taking in all its forms is general American population is ond known to be steadily on the increase, in 3,000. from "Aleeping pills" down to the is on the increase, it is not as bad But although drug-inking deadly. habit-forming morpline, since the last world war as it was cocaina and oplum.

in the post-1914-18 war period. Who tire ranged against this Like everything else in America, menuce, hotting-up the fight against the high cost of living has made it with all the cunning and re- nn appearance in the grand manner sources of the command of the in drug-taking circles. A one ounce American Government? The answer shot of heroin, considerably adul is an eilte corps called the T-man terated at that, fetches from £100 (Treasury men).

to £123, The Narcotics Bureau is run by That is big-time stuff. But moṛ- the Treasury and housed in Washing- phine goes even higher. Whereas ton's Constguard building. The one grain of adulterated heroin G-men of the FB.I. have got far more fetches about Bs. In the dublous publicity as the glamour boys of markets, morphino costs at least £1 America's crime fighters, but the 18s., a grain..........

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