Himalayan Times (1950)

A««.wt 27; i»9u '^Itmfllapan Quintal j . ;' l'n

GANGTOK ROAD INDIA'S ADVICF. TO NO ^ PPROACH BY INDIA

■4 : | TO CHINA

Expected lo Open By The tfHIN^ ON TIBET $w Delhi, Aug. 18.

End Of Tait Month. London Aug. IS. . official circles 'here

■+* India was urging Chi- dcscribel as incorrect a

Duo. lo the recent na to use "moderation'' Press statement reported

rains the road has again itwands Tibet. Mb. V. K. to have)been made by the

•"•«•'» breached al a few Krishna Menpn, India's Indian High Commissioner

places. The diversion at High Commissioner in Bri- in London', Mr. V.K. Kri

R ingpo is again under the tain, s:ii<l today. shua Menon, that India

Mood waters of Rang

ur'ii

that on the MelliUholn been made to knownto the

is partially swept away. Chinese Government, but T|l{,

Lepchakhola gap has now '« would not be correct- .:„lu.ni]

widened to 1000 ft. In- to say that there hay,- sai(, hw

i i i been demarches From tin' i. u

terviewed by onr correspon- ,. . Delievo

dent,Mr. Lahiri, Assistant l"rt!an s"'"'. Whatever statesman will take steps

Enffineer.saidthatlhevnre a:dvlC6 \p «"* Cb,!m 0,1 which ^ill-load to a new

s'ill hopine l„ nr,en the tl"',, ,ll"'ton. q»«*tion WQr|(,

road lo nheie.1 traffic by ",!'",'"' .;M *° '»"ct'on M. Lie, who is on.,

the end r,f this month of moderation ^trresp.-c-ttye holiday Wait to his homo

against all these odd ends of.legal rights country added:

with two <>r tree Iran- In.lias position i:i "TlU problem of Tibet

shipments. The road is Tibet was rather peculiar. Iooko> like being a very

now open from Gangtok She. was the only'country ^difiWlt juridical question."

to the In-each near Rang- represented at the Tibetan .'j \UIVA been unable so

po and from Rangpo to capital. Hut the Indian far lo bbtaili any definite

Tarkhbla This is expected representative was there information about Tibet's

to be extended to Bha- in an ''Undefined capacity" judicial (status as a nation."

1 ukhola where a tranship- and was more or less the j_

ment may he necessary successor of the original India, like Britain,

for sometime till the dry British representative who rcc >gniiied Chinese suzcra-

days come. The temporary "strayed into Tibet and inty ovi»r Tibet. But India

Mclli bridge, which has stayed there." was pressing China not

again been taken up, when--- to take a strictly legalistic

completed will take the jeeps and small cars can view til the present time

traffic right from Lepcha- reach upto Rangpo from of international tension

jhora lo Bhalukhola. At Kalimpong through the and rcfiain from precipi-

presunt through traffic is Munsong Govt. Cinchona tale action, and. in his

non-existant between Lep- Plantation ami by-pass view, there was every

ehajhoro and Tarkhola, the damaged Tista Valley likelihoodthat China would

but by special permissions road. heed rijdian advice.

China to use

Speaking to 'British

river nl.ich hi.s chaiccd ,,r.,Mm.„ „ m-.d.-ration towards Tibet,

its courc The temporary and In.lin 1 i. smu. n at a .

bridge-recently construe- '"J*80" in celebration of :->--./.■■■ -©F TiBEl
,„j i, i, i,, Indian Independence Day,

bed awal while he said: "oVviews have M LIE S DIFFICULJY

Oslo, Aug/ 1-1.
U.N. Secretary-
M. Trygve Lie,
to-day: "I still
>hat no responsible