RADIATION WARNING
Peking Denies Broadcasting
PEKING, May 1. A “pirate radio” in or near Communist China put out a bogus warning last week about Russian hydrogen bomb tests showering radioactive fallout on North China, a Peking radio spokesman said today. He categorically denied that Peking Radio put out the report, which warned Chinese to wash their vegetables and seal wells against radioactive dust from Russia’s nuclear explosions in Siberia.
“Forces hostile to China” were operating secret transmitters faking official Chinese broadcasts, the spokesman said. Chinese engineers were now trying to discover whether these transmitters were on the Chinese mainland or in some neighbouring country. The “pirate radio” programmes were first heard last June and had increased in intensity since March, the spokesman added. It was monitoring stations outside China which last week picked up the radioactivity warning—in the Chinese language—to people in Manchuria.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28267, 3 May 1957, Page 9
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