Himalayan Times (1960)

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A NEWS WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY

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VOL. XIV SEPTEMBER 11, 1960. NO. V

INDIANS IN CHINESE TIBETAN REFUGEES FILTH a POTHOLES ON

CUSTODY LEAVE NAUTANWA DARJEELING ROADS

New Delhi, Sept. 9 n , Darjeeling, Sept. 9

Mrs. Lakebmi N. Menon, Uorakbpur, bept. 9 • Though Darjeeling

Deputy Minister for Ex- Unable to get passage Municipality derives am-

ternal Affairs, stated in baok to their homeland pie revenue in comparison

tbe Rajya Babha on Tues- through Wtst Nepal all to other municipalities,

day that the Government the 400 Tibetan refugees its annual revenue being

had made repeated repra- that had oolleted last between Rs. 16 and 17'

sentations to the Chiuese month at Nautaowa and lakhs for administering an

Government for the release Sunauli on the Indo-.tepa- area of roughly 4.1 aq

of 30 persons'arrested by 'e8e border near here, miles, civic amenities con-

them but without any have moved away from tinue to deteriorate,

result. these, places. An official Besides broken drains,

Mrs. Menon was reply- report said that only one anfi abundant filth in

ing to Mr. Dahya Bliai °r tw0 Tibetans who bad many important thorough-

V. Patel who had asked brought with tbem their fares, recently many of

uboul the number oflndian mules, were still at Natl- the town s busiest arteries

. citizens who were being Wnwa. havo become full of pot-

aubjectad to ' brain wash- The majority of these holes. This is particularly

mg" in China and who- homebouud Tibetan had unfortunate in the case

tber any diplomatic ap- moved to Raxaul, near of Mall Road, previously

proaches had been made the East Nepal frontier, a .lovely walk and now

to seoure their release with a plan to walk to the towu's main open-air

Replying to a sup- Kathmandu to approach lung The Cart Road have

plemantary, Mrs Menon the Nepalese Government now a most depressing

said about 30 persons ior permission to use the look.

—21 Indiau protected West Nepal route back to The municipality some-

nationals and 9 Kashmir Tibet. These refugees, who times blames the weather

Muslims-ware arrested by had oome from Sikkim, for the delay in taking

the Chinese authorities spent a month here look- up repair jobs—but this

since the outbreak of the ing for an opportunity is hardly a fair exouse.

disturbance in 1969. The to enter Nepal. Those who The fact is that the mu-

Government did not know managed to oross into nicipality's general admi-

the charges levelled againn Nepal were held up at nistration has tended to

them who had been sen- Meondihawa, Bhairavaand beoome slack. Roads are

fFfenced to various terms Butwal and were not alio* often left nnswept for

of imprisonment. wed to prooeed further. long periods.

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