Himalayan Times (1952)

October 5, 1952

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own Army has been lately reduced to
a quarter of its original is very true.
The cumulative effect of all the three
shut-outs is enough to precipitate a
crisis in the otherwise peaceful hills of
Nepal, East and West.

It will be well to remember that
the Red Tibet’s border converge near
the hearts of these likely to-be-starved
families. Will not such a situation turn
the direction of the tide of exodus from
South to North ? Surely a hungry man
will not suffer from qualms and senti-
ments of ‘Isms’. Food and employment
will allure a hungry man even to hell.
Practical people who know what service
moans to the hill people of Nepal take
it. for certain that the latest interference
by India Government in the matter of
their recruitment to the H. M. G’s Forces
will only accelerate the speed of the
spread of communism into the very core
of the Nepalese society. Once the germ
of communism infects the hamlets
of the one-tracked hill men nothing
can and will eradicate it.

It is the communist party of India
who have made a lot of noise against
the recruitment of the Gorkinas by the
British on Indian Soil. Others who have
only sentiment for their political wisdom
joined the chorus and forced Government
of India's hands. And poor broken reed
of tho Government of Nepal primarily
whoso concern it ought to be can not
be expected to appreciate the implication
^ of the subject.

If the sane and sob°r administra-
tors of India do really feel that it is
humiliating to the national pride of the
progressive country of India to continue
!o allow the Britishers to recruit Gor-
khas on Indian soil, the Gorklias are
interested to know if India Government
will not take it otherwise if the recrui-
ting depots are shifted to the Nepalese
soil. Such a transfer will while knocking

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FACTS AND FIGURLS

New Delhi, Sept. 20

1. Of Rs.8I.5f) crores worth of stores
purchased by Indian Railways last year,
Rs 63.22 crores worth were made in
India.

2. The combined revej^ue receipts of
the Central and State Governments in
1 51-52 totalled Rs. 910.7S crores; the
combined expenditure Rs 824.0 crores.

3. Madras produces 25,5 crore eggs
a year, but the per capita consumption
is the highest in Travancore-Cochin with
19 eggs and the lowest in Madhya
Pradesh 5 eggs per annum.

Uttar Pradesh, has 11.2 million
acres under irrigation, the .largest area in-
India; Coorg has 0,000 acres, the small-
est.

5. Indian tea accounted for nearly
13 percent of the total value of the
country’s exports or agricultural com-
modities in 1950 51 followed next by
spices with 4 07 per cent

6. India has produced 75,919 complete

cycles during the first six months of
1952; last year’s total production was
114,275 as against 42,933 cycles in

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off the bottom from the argument of
the noisy section of the Indhiitt. politics
spare the disturbances in the most strate-
gic region next to the Reel 'Tibetan
Border.

All who have the interest of the
people and the country of Nepal at
heart and those who want the propaga-
tion of communism in the virgin soil
of Nepal to bo arrested through these
columns request the Government of India,
Nepal and Great Britain to sit round,
together and hammer out a working,
arrangement whereby the latest communist
design may be foiled.