PEKING WARNS INDIA

Press, Volume C, Issue 29691, 8 December 1961, Page 17

PEKING WARNS INDIA

(NX. Press Association—Copyright)

NEW YORK December 7. Communist China acemed India today of planning to occupy Chinese territory. It warned that if (India persisted “it must bear full responsibility for the resulting new tension.” Pekmgs charges were contained in a Foreign Ministry statement distributed by the official New Cuina News Agency the Associated Pres* reported from Tokyo. It denounced India's latest

accusations that the Chinese had established new posts in Indian territory as ‘sheer fabrications” and “open interference in the internal affairs of China.” Charges Denied Peking Radio said yesterday that China bad denied India’s charges that Chinese troops were invading Indian territory at the InlolChine-e border according to the Associated Press The Chinese Foreign Ministry expressed “regret” that the Indian Government had made such “groundless Charges,” the radio said in a.

Chinese language broadcast monitored in Tokyo. TTie broadcast said the Chinese Note was delivered to the Indian Embassy in Peking on November SO. It was in reply to an Indian Note on October 31. India claims the McMahon Line is the north-eastern border but China says the border ties approximately 100 miles farther south The Note. however warned that Chinese troops would be ready to cross the McMahon Line if Indian troops continued their military activities on the disputed border, th® radio said.