Evening star., 1960-06-05
Froyed Tibetons Renew
Attacks on Chinese

DARJEELING, India, June 4
AP).-Desperation has driven
Tibetans to new attacks on
their Chinese Communist mas
ters. As a result there has been
q recent upsurge Of guerrilla
fighting.
Preliminary reports indicate
there was a major popular up
rising recently in Shigatse, one
of Tibet's main cities, 135 miles
west of the Capital of Lhasa.
Battles and Guerilla hit-and-
run raids occurred in a number
Of other widely separated
points. Many Of the guerrillas
have been forced into the hills
by intolerable conditions in the
towns and villages.
This picture was pieced to-
gether from reports reaching
this Indian mountain town 40
miles from Tibet. The reports
came from sources proven ac-
curate in the past as well as
from refugees driven out Of
Tibet by the recent fighting.
(In Taipei, Tien Chun-
chin, new chairman Of Ma
tionaliSt China's Mongolian
and Tibetan Affairs Commis-
sion, said he has no infor-
nation direct from Tibet on
the reported new uprising but
added he is not surprised by
the news. He said President
Chaing Kai-shek's govern
ment will do everything 1t
can to support the Tibetan
resistance movement.)
The Shigatse uprising is be-
lieved to have occurred after
the Chinese discovered anti
Communist activities among
followers of the Panchen Lama.
Panchen Rejected
The Panchen, revered In
Tibet as second only to the
self-exiled Dalai Lama, has
been used as a Chinese stooge
since the 1859 Lhasa uprising
was crushed. But the Panchen
Lama's followers refused to go
along with him.
One unconfirmed report said
some monks from the Panchen
Lama's monastery there turned
against the Chinese in an open
fight after they had been sent
to attack other Tibetans.
The Panchen Lama himself
repeatedly is under palace ar
rest in LhaSa and no longer is
trusted by the Chinese.
One of the claimants to the
Panchen'S throne is reported
to have escaped from a Chinese
concentration camp near Lhasa
and reached Bhutan, a buffer
state between India and Tibet.
Sources said the claimant,
whose name was not disclosed,
had been tortured by the Chi
nese and was accompanied to
safety in Bhutan by five fol-
lowers.
Successor Not Chosen
The old Panchen, regarded by
Tibetan Buddhists as the 10th
incarnation of their greatest
religious teacher, died about
1910. Three small boys were
discovered as candidates for
the 11th incarnation. The final
choice was supposed to have
been made by the Dalai Lama
and other high priests, but it
never occurred.
Civil war almost broke out
over the dispute in 1851, but
the Chinese intervened and set
up their protege as the present
Panchen. One claimant was
said to have died and another
to have made a vain attempt
to escape to India. 1t is not
clear which one of these two
now is reported in Bhutan.
Reports of other major bat
ties in Tibet recently have
come from areas around Mar
gartse Dzong, east of Gyantse,
and also from west Of GyantSe.
The Chinese are known to have
l been bringing in truckloads of
their dead into GyantSe.
Use Guerrilla Tactics
With most Tibetan military
strongpoints wiped out, the
guerrillas have returned to the
pattern of attack they used
when opposition to the Chinese
occupation of Tibet first f1ared
six years ago.
Resistance forces wait on