European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Farm Border Jhelum Here pakistani Farmers cultivate their 1 u was o but Brave attempt As workers tones to ceasefire line soil tides restrains them from any increase la military potential Over that in effect the time the agreement Wax la cd Nrrma no Are to approach within 900 Yards of the there some similarly the firing of repair of fortifications and photography of installations Are pro of the part Utsan aide banners Are permitted to cultivate Belr Plota up to the but they too Are prohibited from a typical Check Post on the cease fire him a on the Banks of the Jhelum a Hurt North of Uzat Fataba in Western what used to be the main Rand from in to St Rettgar in participants in this undeclared War face each other across a dry Stream bed that the Demark Tom line separating India held territory from Arad prom the checkpoint on the Pakistan aide it la possible to look across the Little Stream and watch the Indian troops who Man their Barrier on the opposite the Road once made a Horseshoe but the Bridge that spanned the dry Wash was destroyed during the War and has not been instead a narrow dirt fill and Culvert replaces the Bridge so that White in the Only traffic that crosses go Back and in Check Points on either ceasefire line can be followed on a map of Kashmir that hangs on the Wall of a former maharajah rest House in dome where the in now has a Field starting a few Miles East of on the Pakistan Indian the line runs northward through the lower Foothills that Are the stepping stones to the after a couple of reverse bends in an area known As h crosses the Road and Jhelum River at the streams de from the line slices through mountains in a northerly direction until it meets the Kos Mengana River where it turns East to lose Luelf in the glaciers of near the Sinkiang Indian forces hold the territory South and East of the line and Pakistan defends the Region North and the jeep ride from the in Field Sta Tion to the ceasefire line is uneventful except for the Claustrophobic feeling of being sandwiched Between the Jhelum feet below and the Clouds crap ing mountains on every available Flat Kashmir Farmers till their terraced plots of Rice and wheat military activity in the Region is nil with the exception of occasional cease fire line pack mule stables and Camel caravans of supplies remind the visitor that the area is a military the officers and men who Man the front Are relaxed and but con stantly Alert to an overt move by the a fad Flag up m Many Chat Kashmir nearly 400 crowds from the West watch violence in the East the stars and stripes 1
