Himalayan Times (1963)

February 3, 1963

Himalayan Times

Seven

wiil pass through the die-
puted mountain, presuma-
bly suggesting that each
side had recognised the
other's right of access to
the peak.

The Chinese Govern-
ment has repeatedly flaun-
ted its agreements with
Burma and » epal as proof
of their peaceful relations
with neighbours. What it
significantly does not tell
the world is tl at the
principles which China ha»
accepted in reaohing these
settlements will not apply
to India. The "imperia-
list0 MoMahon Line has
been accepted in Burma,
but the same line in India
continues to remain 1 ille
gal''. This is the Chinese
brand of logic

On April 2, 1953 tht
then Pakistan Foreign
Minister, Mr. Zafrullah
Khan, deolared in the
Pakistan Parliament at
Karachi that tht Chinese
troops bad violated Pakis-
tan's frontiers in the ex-
treme north of Kashmir,
lie refused to give details.

Ia 1959, China pub-
lished a map showing ap
proximately 15,000 square
kilometres of the raider*
held Kashmir as Chinese
territory. So far, however,
the Chinese Government
has not officially made
any claim for this terri
tory.

Dawn of Karaohi edi-
torially wrote on October

3, 1959: "...The main
portion of the 2,000 mile
long McMahon Line is
Bharat's concern... We
feel it our duty to tell
the comrades in Paking
that, so far as Pakistan
is concerned, there will
be no yielding of any
kind, at any teme. The
sauctity of ths McMahon
Line must be preserved
and maps or no maps,
we will not countenance
the loss of even a single
inch of our territory."

Negotiations are at
present in progress bet-
ween China and Pakistan
for demarcation of the
boundary. India protested
both to Pakistan and
China on May 10, 1960,
making it clear that they
had no right "to locate
and align their common
border1' in Kashmir.

China has a border
claim against her "Sovitt
sister'' too. China consi-
ders the SinoMongolian
frontier to be '■undeter-
mined".

On the Manchurian
frontier, there is a dis-
crepancy between Chinese
and Soviet maps. Ths
frontier lies on the con-
flnanoe of the river Amur
and its tributary Ussuri,
where there is au island
about 30 kilometres long.
The Chinese maps show
this island as China's,
while Soviet maps include
it in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet city of

Khabarovsk and the Sino-

Soviet frontier at the
western extremity of Sin-

kiang are also subjecto

of cartographic disagree-
ments.

INDIA HAS OVER 226
MILLION LIVESTOCK

New i)e!hi, Jan. 29

India wais 70.6 million
working bullocks, 5! mil-
lion breeding cows and
£4.2 million breeding she.
buffaloes, according to an
analysis of the 1961 live,
stock census.

In the five years from
1956 to 1961, the number
of cattle and buffaloes in-
creased by 11.4%—-from
293 6 million to 226.8
million, cattle from 158 7
million to 175.7 million
and buffaloes from 44.9
million to 51.1 million.

India thus possesses
the largest number of
cattle and buffaloes in
the world—more than
one-sixth of the world's
cattle and half the buf-
faloes. But she has nei-
ther the densest cattle
population nor the highest
ratio of cattle to human
population. India has .'54
cattle per 100 heotares of
geographical area and 40
cattle per 100 persons of
population as againat
Denmark's 79 cattle per
100 hectares and New
Zealand's 253 cottls per
100 persons.