Jharkhand District, Ranchi City, Ramgarh Town
（星星生活特稿/作者：捷克佳）
"......经过八个多月的施工，工程于1982年完成，并在1983年2月14日举行隆重剪彩典礼。台湾侨务委员会庞守谦处长和印度兰伽军区司令R.S. Puri准将共同主持仪式。除当地的印度人之外，还有请来的和尚进行超度法式。印度华侨协会也自加尔各答市组团并租赁两部旅游巴士，专程前来兰伽镇参加当日的庆典。(newstarnet.com)"
I been to a unique town in India. It was in 1983. That is the Military Town of Ramgarh where, for the first , I saw a highly disciplined contingent of Indian Army and commanders.
In the above Chinese article that mentioned 2 tour buses, I was in one of the buses that went to Ramgarh in Ranchi on 14th February 1983.
Here are some memories of that trip:
The buses stopped briefly in front the restaurant of Chong Ki Yung, who would a month time receive recognition from Taiwan Government for his merit effort in restoring a forgotten Chinese army cemetery in Ramgarh. It is the opening of this newly restored cemetery I came, alone with 2 bus lot of Chinese residents of Calcutta City.
At the cemetery ground was an army brass band composed mostly Sikh army. They march and played several tunes during the ceremony. It was a very hot day, while all the VIP and visitors seat under shelter of tents, the whole band of Sikh Army stay under strong sun the whole ceremony cession.
The newly Temple also declare open that day and I was amount the first batch of visitor to enter the temple. I was among the last in the line and as I turn my head I saw the main gate at the distant came a big noicy crowd of villages men and women and children approaching the temple. There were VIP inside the tinny and I thought if these crowd also enter same time they may jam the temple. As I was at the doors at that time so instingly I close the 2 wings of the big door trying to keep the noisy crowd outside, at least till all the VIP inside have left.... soon a member approach me and told me its OK to let them in....all of them. So I let all and every one of the group of villagers into the shrine....................
Chinese Army in India - The X Force
Why 600 Chinese soldiers rest-in-peace in the soil of India?
There is a chapter in modern history which the Indian and Chinese forgotten. A capter the young generation of British and American do not know exist. This is also a page the Japanese want to tear off and destroy.
1942, China sent troops into Burma to assist the British in holding back the Japanese conqueror. Chinese loose to the highly self sacrificing Japanese. These Chinese forces became broken up, and retreat out of Burma. Part of these forces entered India’s Ramgarh under the British at that time. Calcutta, during the WW2, was a place of refugee providing refuge protecting many a Chinese scholars, politicians and business men.
This retreated Chinese army were re-equipped and re-trained by American instructors at British expense. They were named X Force and used by General Joseph Stilwell as the spearhead of his drive to open a land route to China (the Ledo Road).
Eventually they return to China with 600 of them choose to remain in India for ever.
Read full stories in : Chinese Army in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Force
印度加爾各答梅光學校校長丘莉蘭自1983年起管理 加爾克漢德省蘭齊市的「中華民國駐印軍蘭伽公墓」。1995因中風不良於行，由學生陳學良接管。
抗日遠征軍公墓斑駁剝落 2010-04-05 22:43:07 中央社記者何宏儒印度蘭齊5日專電
印度加爾各答的華僑4日前往「中華民國駐印軍蘭伽公墓」春祭，因年久失修，墓園祠堂、佛堂樑柱有裂痕，部分墳塚出現破洞、英烈靈位碑也斑駁剝落，亟待整修。
墓園位於加爾克漢德（Jharkhand）省首府蘭齊（Ranchi）近郊的蘭伽（Ramgarh）地區，原名「印度蘭伽中國抗日遠征軍烈士公墓」，為第2次世界大戰期間中華民國遠征軍埋骨之所。
加爾各答（Kolkata）華僑後來將湮滅在荒草荊棘中的國軍墳墓集中遷葬一處，修建成環境清幽的墓園，並僱請專人管理。
6位加爾各答華僑4日分別搭飛機、火車，前往墓園舉行春祭。加爾各答與蘭齊市相隔約320公里；華僑抵蘭齊後，需再花費約2小時車程，走山路抵達墓園。
1983年起受托管理墓園的加爾各答梅光學校校長丘莉蘭對中央社記者表示，加爾各答華僑每年固定在青年節到清明節期間及軍人節時，前往墓園舉行春、秋祭。
最近10年來，她因中風而較少參與，並在4年前將管理之責交棒給學生陳學良。
中央社記者走訪園區，發現一處圍牆遭緊鄰的大樹壓迫，已經崩裂；部分墳塚出現拳頭大小破洞、部分墓碑則有裂痕；蔣公題字「英靈赫奕」的英烈靈位碑也斑駁剝落。
另外，園區大門接待小屋屋頂鋼筋也已露出；陳學良憂心「屋頂不知道那一天會掉下來？」
丘莉蘭強調，維護管理墓園雖然是國家的事，但「我們有責任來幫忙國家保管這個地方」。
由於蘭齊市至蘭伽山區路途遙遠而辛苦，陳學良說，整修工程勢必需要花費數倍於平地或市區的費用。他希望台灣政府撥款協助，以儘早完成整修，告慰異鄉英靈。
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