Himalayan Times (1952)

July 13, 1952

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CHINESE TROOPS REACH
1NDO-TIBET FRONTIER

Kalimpong, July 9
On Sunday, July sixth
two hundred Chinese
troops have reached Ya-
tung the Tibetan town
only few miles from tho
Indian frontier in Sikkim,
states an authentic report
received here today from
Tibet. Chinese authorities
in Lhasa have sent ins-
tructions to Tibetan offi-
cials at Yatung to make
room for these soldiers
who accordingly are being
accommodated in houses
belonging to Yatung in-
habitants causing great
hardship to them. This
troops of two hundred
will shortly be increased
to fivo hundred and accor-
ding to informed circles
they will bo permanently
stationed at Yatung which
is an important place to
the Chinese from point of
view of frontier strategy.
Their present assignment
is to build roads between
Yatung and 1'hari to trans-
port lingo quantity of
Chinese rice shortly arri-
^ ving at Yatung, through
India, for consumption in
rice starved Tibet.

China’s great problem
in I ibet today is trans-
port and thousands of
spades and other road
making tools havo been
piled up at different places
in Tibet for rapid cons-
truction of motorablo road

REPRESENTAIIVE IN
LHASA

New Delhi, July 8
It is learnt that tho
Government of India’s
representative in Lhasa,
Mr. S. K. Sinha, is return-
ing home on the completion
of his term as head of tho
Indian mission in Tibet.

Ho is likely to be
succeeded by Mr. A. K.
Pen, until recently Indian
Consul-General in Shang-
hai.

RICE FOR TIBET

Kalimpong, Julp 5
One thousand tons of
Chinese rice for Tibet ar-
rived at Calcutta port on
July 3, said a spokesman
of India Government at
Gangtok yesterday- The
whole lot will shortly bo
sent to Gangtok, capital
of Sikkim, from where
these will be taken toJ
Tibet bv mule caravans
This forms part of a total
of 3000 maunds of rice to
be exported to Tibet.
Tibetans of late have ex- J
pressed their discord ent
on shortage of rice and
Chinese have assured them
of liberal supply-

betweon YatungandLhasa.
All these are said to have
been carried by the Ilima.
layan Syndicate the newly
formed Sino-Tibetan com-
pany operating in India
and Tibet.

IXIX)-TIltIiT TRADE
ROUTE

• Kalimpong, July 5

The Chinese in Tibet
now plan to make motor-
able tlm 103-mile long
Indo-Tibet-trade route from
14000 foot Himalayan pass
Natu on Sikkim-Tibet bor-
der to Gyantse, Tibet's,
third largest town and
ternjinus on Indo-Tibetfc
trade route, state kites™
reports reaching now-Cron* •
Tibet.

Two thousand Chinese
scldhrs at Gyantse have
been briefed for assign-
ment and first batch of
1,000 soldiers with mules
and camels carrying road
making* equipments have
left Gyantse for

The Chinese!**®
given top priority tb road
project as motorable road
from Yatung to Gyantse,
and later to Lhasa, will
shorten Chinese supply
route to Tibet of Chinese
goods and food supplies
required urgently in Tibet*
This year’s rainfall in Tibet
also threatens crop failure
on which Chinese were
relying to relieve food
scarcity in 'J ibet, so that
unless road project is
completed in quick time,
famine willbeexpected to be
widespread in Tibet. Cham-
do-Lbasa overland road
project for mntorised traffic
has now been abandoned
on account of mountain-
cous terri.an which have
defeated Chiness engineers.