ROAD INTO INDIA
Intrusion By China
(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW DELHI, August 26.
The Chinese Communists have built a road across the northeastern territory of Ladakh, adjoining Tibet, which has cut off several hundred square miles of Indian territory, the “Times of India” reported today. It said the road, built a year ago. links Gartok in western Tibet with Yarkand and Kashgar in the Chinese province of Sinkiang. It runs across a high, uninhabitable plateau in the Aksaichin region—an area the newspaper described as traditionally part of Ladakh and Indian territory. ‘The fact that the Chinese have built a highway through this area along an old caravan route would indicate two things: first that the Chinese cartographic aggression is being asserted by actual physical possession of Indian territory, and second, that the Government of India’s security arrangements along the admirtedly-difficult 450 miles along the border between Ladakh and Tibet and Sikkim are extremely inadequate,” said the newspaper.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 13
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