IGUA 34 LA PRENSA LIBRE Lunes 19 de Diciembre de 1955 Hiroshima Nagasaki Bombs Survivor Tells Own Story tigu de las bist dic firr par wa 13 CAPAN SNOW UK Travel from Cristóbal to New York via Panamá Line Ancon Cristobal Panama NEW YORK to EUROPE 1915 63 Satofaction gumaneed CCADC SEARS on your money back via CUNARD LINE Big STORE Hours 8:30 a. to 10 TALLER HOLST HNOS. LTDA. Queen Mary Mauretania Queen Elizabeth Britanic For information see our authorized agents. ATA Ltda. Tel. 5593 AVIATICA Ltda. Tel. 5657 COSTA RICA EXPRESS Tel. 1622 SERCOVIA Ltda. Tel. 5954 or directly at Agencias Unidas, Tel. 3731 or 2553 The Atomic Bomb Casualty concrete buildings too had disap greet me temporarily blotted out All the sliding doors had been two thirds bald. My chest ached.
Commission has just verified, aft peared except for a few grotesque all sense of fatigue. We embraced blown out of the house. The plast. Today am not a strong man.
er years of search, information hulks.
each other unashamedly for joy. er walls had crumpled to the floor. My baptism by the atom bomb that 12 persons lived through Later learned that had been looked at where my worshop The roof tiles were missing or ly has left me somewhat hard of both of the atomic bombings of 200 yards from the center of the had been. Everything was shat. ing askew.
hearing.
Japan.
explosion. The only injury sus tered and strewn about.
It was the same with other but it was nothing compared These people were bombed first tained was a minor cut on the left We began clearing up the mess. houses nearby. But none had col to what others suffered.
in Hiroshima on Aug, 6, 1945; arm the beams of the roof, had the injured began pouring in, lapsed completely.
they underwent fallen in a way to act as a pro they arrived by the droves, some sa victims suffering from the same experience in Nagasalci. tecting shield over me.
walking, some carried, some near severe burns as in Hiroshima.
One of these dozen was Shigeto. thought of my two cousins. death, some hysterically calling later learned we were 3, 300 Save Time!
shi Morimoto, a kite manufactur What had happened to them when the names of their loved ones. We yards from the center of the Celaler Save er still in Nagasaki. Here is his the house fell down? But also cared for the wounded until late bomb.
Sales Office own account of his experiences in feared for the safety of the three into the night.
Money!
the two bombings.
workers at my workshop in the The next day the task of dispos DRILLS OF NO AVAIL barracks compound.
ing of the dead bodies went on, By SHIGEYOSHI MORIMOTO Offering a prayer for my cous and joined in with the other From where stood could see ins safety, started out for Ujina, able bodied.
fires raging in the city. All the (World Copyright, 1955, by INS) for. also felt a deep responsi. Aug. I thought of my family, fire fighting drills which the peobility for the well being of my em They were in Nagasaki. must ple had been taught were of no NAGASAKI, Japan, 19. INS. ployees.
get to them as soon as possible. avail not for something of such am one of the 12 persons who was barefooted it was use With my, three workers, left tremendous proportions.
lived through the atomic bomb less to look for my shoes. Hiroshima, hitching rides on the fires continued into the ings at Hiroshima and in Naga.
trucks as far as the city out. night, lighting up the sky with saki.
FAMILIAR LANDMARKS GONE skirts, for Hiroshima station was leaping flames. lifetime will not erase even no more, and rail transportation That night and my family one experience of this sort. am! The familiar landmarks that in the area was in a chaotic state. held a family council. We decided a simple man, a kite maker by stood only a short while ago had Then we walked along the rail. to evacuate immediately to the trade, but coincidence has given disappeared into the vast expanse way tracks, and luckily came to town of Tokitsu outside Nagasaki me a story to tell.
of rubble. Taking my bearings by a small station where there was where my mother lived.
It starts in Hiroshima, at a. instinct, set forth along what a freight train bound for Moji. We left the following morning. 11 You re Welcome to the morning of August 6, 1945. presumed was where a road nad From Moji we got a passenger There were others streaming out had just left my lodging near been.
Come in and Browse train for Nagasaki.
of the city, many with radiation the Japanese Army barracks in. It was like walking through a It was the morning of Aug. 9: burns with pieces of skin hang thru Our Sears Catalogs the Ujina section of the city to living hell.
My family had heard reports of ing grotesquely from their bodies.
buy some supplies for my busi On either side of me, as Hiroshima destruction, and were It was like a procession of perJust like window shopping without the ness. At the time was making walked, there were people lying overjoyed to see me alive. sons just emerged from hell.
tiresome walking and pushing crowds!
balloons for the Imperial Army. prostrate on the ground like swat Some neighbors came also to It was just like Hiroshima aft Fast, convenient ordering! Stop in today!
My shopping didn take long, ted flies. From the lips of many my house to welcome me, and we er all.
and with time to spare decided there came anguished cries for all stood in the ward as de On Nov. 13, while resting at my to visit two cousins who lived water, water.
scribed the bomb over Hiroshima. mother home, was suddenly just a few blocks away. was saw others stumbling towards was at the point of telling struck with a dizzy spell. felt about o clock when knocked me, the skin of their faces peeled them that in the event of a bluish sick at my stomach and couldn on their door.
off and hanging over their chests. white flash in the air to run for stand up. My hair began falling We sat in the living room for Still others were groping hyscover when it happened a rapidly. Within 10 days was a few minutes exchanging pleas terically around with the flesh of gain.
COSTA RICA antries when we were interrupted their backs and chests exposed, We ran for our air raid shelter.
by a blinding flash that lit up the with huge pieces of what only a Roof tiles began falling on the PRENSA LIBRE sky outside.
short while ago was healthy skin shelter with a deafening racket.
It was amost powerful flash of now dangling in strips from their For 10 minutes we waited. NothOnly 00 Monthly a blue white color, and immed. bodies.
ing happened. So we cautiously iately after it there was a tre could hardly believe my eyes. crept out.
Phone 2287 mendous rumbling sound, and in These pitiful objects, some de.
less time than it takes to tell, the lirious, some semi conscious, some house collapsed and the three of crawling, others limping with us were buried under the debris. makeshift canes to support and My first thought was that it guide them for a moment must have been a great earth thought was in a daytime world Phone 4056 50 yds. So. of Public Health Ministry quake.
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Iscratched and clawed away in Charge of Service Repairs made my way between rows at the debris like a madman, and upon rows of houses, all burning finally maraged to crawl free. like huge funeral pyres and came There was not a single wooden to a river.
house in sight that had not been The bridge that was supposed flattened to the ground. The larger to have been there and that had crossed so many times before was not there. It, too, had burned to nothing.
Germans Win in Saar Vote Soviet Loan to Afghanistan Taking off my clothes, tied them in a bundle and strapped SAARBRUCKEN. 19. Voters MOSCOW. 19. Radio Moscow them over my head and waded of the Saar, the industrial State said the Soviet Union has granted CARTELERA CINEMATOGRAFICA PARA MOY across.
on the French German frontier, Afghanistan a 100, 000, 000 long.
On either banks of the river have swept into power a group of term loan to finance a Russian PALACE were charred bodies people who German Parties pledged to an ear organized technical aid program.
BRIGADOON must have frantically tried to ly reunion with West Germany. Afghan leaders and visiting Soviet douse their flaming clothes in the The Parties won a 63. of Sun chiefs have been holding talks.
VARIXDADES water but didn quite make it. day vote. However, a 75 maTHIS ISLAND EARTH had got only a little distance jority is needed before Constitufrom the river when a little girl tional restriction can be overcome 15 Injured on Cyprus MODERNO THREE MUSKETEERS she couldn have been more to reunion with Germany. And than six or seven tugged at my they must coalesce with the Chris NICOSIA, 19. series of ter LIBANO sleeve.
tian Peoples Party to make the rorist bombings and shootings in STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND Mister, please come and help Saar the 10th State in the Bonn the British Crown Colony of Cy my mother, she pleaded.
Republic.
prus has resulted in the injury 10 ARANJUEZ And where is your mother?
of more than 15 persons, includ. 18 GREEN FIRE asked.
ing two US citizens. She under that house, please Elections Confirm Armas hurry and help her.
Automatically, headed to GUATEMALA CITY, 19. The where she pointed. The house had Nat Democratic Movement of collapsed like a pancake.
Pres. Castillo Armas was victori.
With reserve energy that came ous in Sunday election. The anfrom know not where, lifted nouncement came as no surprise.
the fallen timbers. Ten, fifteen All candidates for the 66 seat recently reorganised offers you delivered at home minutes went by. It seemed as Congress promised to support the though wasn making any head anti Communist leader.
way at all.
LOSE TRACK OF TIME Lottery for UN Deadlock keep at it time is hard to UNITED NATIONS, 19.
measure and at last uncovered The Gen Assembly postponed to.
the woman body. She was sey day scheduled sesion as Western erely bruised, but alive and able diplomats worked to round up eto stand up.
nough yotes to push through their When finally arrived at my lottery plan for solving the deadshop at the Ujina Army Barracks. locked Security Council election was near collapse. But the sigat in which Yugoslavia and the PhilI of my three workers coming to ippines are contenders for a seat.
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