FACILITIES ON BORDER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30863, 23 September 1965, Page 17

FACILITIES ON BORDER

India Denies Dismantling tNZ. Press Association—Copyright • NEW DELHI, Sept. 22. India denied today that it had dismantled military installations on the Sikkim-Tibet border as demanded by China, the Associated Press reported.

“That is absolutely f a 1 se ,” an official spokesman said in commenting on a Radio Peking report that the Indians had complied with China’s demands.

“We h a v e not crossed into Tibet and we have not torn down anything,” the spokesman said.

However, Peking newspapers today published photographs purporting to show Indian military structures on the Chinese side of the Sikkim border, the New China News Agency reported, according to A.A.P.-Reuter. The N.C.N.A. said the In dians had retreated from the Nathu La, Jelep La, Cho La and Tungchu La passes. The official Chinese organ

also resumed a sharp attack on the United Nations, the United States and the Soviet Union over the India-Paki-stan fighting. “IN LEAGUE" It claimed that the Security Council’s order to end the fighting “ratified the aggressive ambitions of the Indian Imperialists.” The Soviet Prime Minister. Mr Alexei Kosygin, who invited both sides to meet on Soviet soil, was accused of failing “to go into right and

wrong and distinguish between the aggressor and his victim. Nor did he mention the right of the people of Kashmir to self-determina-tion.”

Mr Kosygin's message showed that the Soviet leaders were anxious to lay their “interfering hand” on the conflict, the agency said.

The United States was acting in league with the Soviet Union in an attempt to compel Pakistan to accept a cease-fire, it said.