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valley, near The burma DOTueT,
300 miles to the east of Bonn
dila.
Push Beyond WaIong
Indian troops were reported
fighting the Chinese on that
front, but it was unclear Just
how the line stood after the
Chinese advanced IL miles from
captured Walong during the
week end.
Mr.. Nehru also announced
that in the Ladakh area, $50
miles to the west, the Chinese
have captured three more OUT
posts guarding the vital Indian
airfield at Chushul.
But he said the airfield, last
main Indian base in the noun
tain passes of Ladakh, remains
firmly in our hands,
He said one outpost 5 miles
east of ChushuI had repulsed
several Chinese attacks but fin
ally fell after waves Of Chinese
soldiers hurled themselves
against it. The other two posts
were evacuated after attacks,
Mr.. Nehru said.
AS bad news continued to
pour in from the Himalayan
battlefronts, informed sources
said the Indian government
may ask the United States and
Britain for fighter planes.
Warplanes in Tibet
Aerial combat has been lack
ing so far in the border war,
but the Indian government is
worried about the large num-
Der Of Chinese fighter and
bomber planes reported in
captive Tibet. Bases in Tibet
put Chinese warplanes within
easy reach Of midas over
crowded and highly inflam-
mable cities and Of its over
strained communications.
In a radio speech to the ma
ton, Mr.. Nehru called the
fighting "a matter of survival
for us" and said India was
grateful ''for the speedy help
that came to us from friendly
countries abroad, more es-
pecially from the United States
and the United Kingdom"
I'VE shall require more help
and we will ask them for it
and we shall certainly use all
the help they can give u.s." he
declared.
India must stand up to
Chinese aggression. Mr.. Nehru
said-"not only we, but all de-
cent-minded persons and de-
cent-minded countries who
value their freedom anywhere
in Asia or Africa. Europe or
America"
Senators Visit India
Four United States Senators
and Ambassador j. K. Gal
braith conferred with Mr..
Nehru today on midas military
setbacks but declined to COM
ment afterward. The Senate
group. led by Majority Leader
Mike Mansfield Of Montana, Is
spending three days in India
on a fact-finding tour for
President Kennedy.
Government concern over
possible extension of the ground
war to aerial combat and air
raids reflected the continued
uncertainty here over China's
ultimate goals in the conflict.
Chinese Communist Premier
Chou En-lai, in a 5,000-word
letter to the heads of "a Afri-
can and Asian nations, warned
yesterday that the war probably
would spread. He placed the
blame on India. accusing it of
helping the Tibetan revolt of
1859, and said the border crisis
was created as a means of get
ting more aid from the United
States.
BY contrast, an editorial in
the official Peking Peoples
Daily today was conciliatory in
tone. 1t said military con-
flicts on the Sino-Indian bor-
der and their growth to their
present serious proportions are
the last things the Chinese
government and people want
to see."
The paper repeated Chinese
Communist proposals for a
cease-fire without pre-condi-
tons for negotiations. India
has repeatedly rejected this
proposal and demanded a with
drawal to lines held before
September 8.
Since Picking sent its troops
against India october 20 in
an all-out offensive that fol-
lowed five years of border in
cidentS, there has been no clear
statement of what the Chinese
are seeking.
1t is estimated that only
about 100000 men on both sides
are engaged in the fighting so
far, a tiny number compared
to the legions that about war