Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-22
INDIA


AS Cease
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2,500-mile battle line there has
been no firing since midnight
in Ladakh, the strategic region
which Peking covets and claims
to have cleared out the In
dams.
Mr.. Nehru was studying Pc
kings terms of the ceas-fire
and a proposed troop pullback,
put gave no hint of what course
India would take.
Compromise Opposed
Feeling ran strong in India,
however, against what many
said would be a compromise.
The Hindustan Times called
Peking's offer an Iltimatum,
rather than a peace offer.
Mr.. Nehru has vowed that
the Chinese must be driven
from Indian soil.
In the four days preceding
the cease fire, Chinese shock
troops drove to the edge of the
Assam Plains on the northeast
frontier and completed occupa-
ton Of practically all the 81 600
square-miles Of territory in the
northeast and northwest
claimed by China.
Some Indians thought Pc
kings only purpose in calling
for a cease fire was to give it's
troops time to consolidate,
should Communist peace pro-
posalS be rejected.
Mr.. Nehru disclosed the
latest exchange of letters with
Premier Chou En-lai, dated
November 4 and November IA,
stated basic disagreements
which still stand despite the
cease fire.
Ladakh Main Difference
India wants the restoration
Of the situation before Septem-
Der 8 when the Chinese began
incursions into northeast India.
China asks the re-establish-
ment of positions of November
Z, 1859. The main difference
is in the Ladakh region of
Northwest India.
In his letter Of November 4
Mr., Chou called The invasion of
India border clashes" He said
the demand for September 8
positions meant "the Indian
government has put to the Chi
nese government humiliating
conditions such as forced on a
vanquished party"
Mr.. Chou said the September
8 situation was unfair and
pregnant with danger of border
conflict and hence should not
be restored"
Mr.. Nehru replied November
IA that Mr.. Chou was making
a magnanimous offer of retain
ing gains of earlier aggression
plus such other gains as it can
secure by negotiations from the
latest aggression"
The line the Chinese claim
to have held in Ladakh in 1853
was actually captured by them
only since the invasion of In
Ola began on october 20, Mr.
Nehru said.
Thousands Evacuated
Events since September 8
have completely shattered any
hope that anyone could have
entertained about settling In
dia-China differences peace
fully in accordance with nor
mai international principles
observed by all civilized gov
ernments." Mr.. Nehru wrote.
--latest reports from the
northeastern front said the
Chinese had halted at an out
post known as the Foothills, at
a point where mountain road
emerges into a strip of jungle
before descending onto the
plains.
Thousands of Indians and
more than $50 Westerners-
Britons and Americans from
tea and rice plantations north
Of the Brahmaputra River-fled
before the Chinese onslaught.
Indian planes airlifted the
Westerners to safety.
The Indian army withdrew
its corps headquarters from
Tezpur.
The main Indian force was
established at Haayuliang, 100
road miles from midas largest
oil fields at Digboi.
The Chinese advance fol-
lowed the defeat of an Indian
effort to hold a line at Walong
in.the Luhit River valley. Chi
nese troops pushed the Indians
80 miles down river in four
days.
Would Pull Back Troops
Grouped in small self
dependent units, the Reds cut
down through the Himalayan
wilderness with lightning speed
when they Unbiased their sur
Prise offensive OCTOBER 70,
Under China'S unilateral
plan, troops would be with
drawn from invaded areas in
the northeast after December
l.. A 25-mile-wide no-man's
land would then be established
in that sector.
But Picking made no offer to
yield much of the deep Com
munist advances in Ladakh on
the western frontier where the
Chinese have built a supply
highway linking Tibet and the
Chinese Province of Sinkiang.
Radio Picking urged India to
respond promptly and posi-
lively" to the Chinese cease