Himalayan Times (1960)

Tw* j5imnlnil«n Time*

CHINESE BUILD ROADS IN LADAKH

Report* by Foreign Journalists Contradictory
New Delhi, February 17.

The Prima Miniiter
■aid in the Lok Sabha
today, that, aooording to
iaformation received by
the Government, tome
roads had been construo
ted by the Chinese autho-
rise* on the Indian terri-
tory in Ladakh occupied
by them.

He was replying to
Mr? U. C. Patoaik who
hud aiked whether the
Government had tried to
, verify the statement made
by some mem here in the
House during the last
■ession that the Chinese
bad constructed roads
from Sinkiang to Tibet.

Mr. Hem Barua : H*«
the Indian Embassy been
nuked to got information
from the Chinese Govern
ment whether they had
built more roads in this
area.

Mr. Nebru replied
that the embassy had not
been instructed to do so
*beoau*a we do not think
that thi* kind of effort
bear any fruit. Our
present relatione . with
the Chinese are wall
known. They are strai-
ned. To inquire from
them about auob a ques-
tion is not likely to yield
any useful result*.'

Mr. A M Tariq • Is
the Government of India
aware of the faot that
some foreign papers and
foreign journalists are
building up some sort of
■torie* and publishing
them. Is it not the duty
of the Government of
India to contradict suoh
stories?

Mr. Nehru : How can
we contradiot stories even
though we might think
they are not based on
much truth? We oannot
contradict them without
prroise knowledge.

February 21. I960

CHINESE FLAG OVER
POTALA REPORTED
Srinagar, Feb. 18
Chinese flags fluttered
over the Dalai Lama's
Potala Palace and over
the Sera and Drepong
monasteries near Lhasa
aooording to eye-witness
accounts reaching here.

The reports said plant
were under way to eon.
neot Lhasa with the
Chines* mainland by a
railway line. Chinese in
Lhasa, it is stated, open-
ly deolared that Ladskh
was 'part of Tibet'.

The report* added
that the Kinkiang-Tibet
highway, which cut across
Ladakh Akaai-Chin pla-
teeu, had been extended
beyotd Gartok.

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