MORE ATOMIC BOMB VICTIMS FOUND NEAR HIROSHIMA
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Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. c. TOKIO, Oetober 4. Slx Imndrod bodies of tho Hiroshima atomic bomb victims wero J'ouiid this week by a Japanese party on the island of Ninosiunia tiiree miles south of Hiroshima. The bodies were the remains oi' ihe last to di! of many thousands of victims who fled to the island after the bomb was dropped more-than two years ago. The offieials found a horrifying seene of pntrifieation. Three hnndred Inbourers had been ordered to bnry the dead immediately hui this has been hekl up temporarily because of fears that the bodies may still be radioactive. The seeret was revealed when Hiroshima eity offieials went to seleet a site for a memorial for the Hiroshima dead. After the atom bomb was dropped in August 1945 thousands of injured were evaeuated by frienels and relations to Ninoshima where they died at the rate of 500 to 600 daily. Night and day the smoke and names of Ninoshima could be seen from the outskirts of Hiroshima as offieials and others cremated the dead. Fuel ran out as more died and they were buried. Eventually even this was impossible and hundreds of-eorpses were left in open mass graves on the beach. These open beach graves the Hiroshima offieials discovered this week.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 October 1947, Page 5
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