DEFENCE OF BHUTAN

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28981, 24 August 1959, Page 11

DEFENCE OF BHUTAN

Nehru To Meet Premier

NEW DELHI, August 21. The Prime Minister of Bhutan (Mr Jigme Dorje) will meet the Indian Prime Minister (Mr Nehru) soon to discuss the defence of the Himalayan State against Chinese Communist incursions from Tibet, according to authoritative sources in New Delhi. Mr Jigme Dorje, who has been touring Bhutan’s border areas, is visiting Delhi in the wake of reports that the Chinese are probing all along Tibet’s southern border with India, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan. Chinese propaganda in Tibet is reported to be claiming that neighbouring peoples of Tibetan stock are part of the “Chinese family” who will all be reunited one day. There has also been reports of strong Chinese troop concentrations near Bhutan’s borders and of minor incursions by the Chinese in pursuit of Tibetans fleeing after the recent rebellion. 8.0.A.C. Routes Through Cairo. —The British Overseas Airways Corporation announced today that it planned to resume services through Cairo on routes to the East as soon as it was practicable to do so. No aircraft of the corporation has landed in Egypt since the Suez crisis in November, 1956.—London, August 20.