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spokesman said the new fight
ling was raging.
The Chayul area in Tibet is
about 10 miles north of. the
border claimed by India and
about so miles northeast OF
Thagla Ridge near the Bhutan
border where the fighting
started at dawn Saturday.
About half way between XII
bitoo and Thagla Ridge, the
Chinese are also concentrating
troops, the Indian spokesman
said.
The troops are in Longju, a
village that the Chinese cap
tured from Indian border
guards in August, 1859, killing
three of them in the first
bloodshed of the dispute over
$1,000 square miles of Hima-
layan borderlands.
The spokesman declined to
speculate on whether a Chinese
attack was imminent at Long
ju, but indicated buildups have
led to other attacks in recent
days.
Peiping radio said Chinese
troops also claimed the cap
ture of a mountain pass, three
more Indian posts land other
places" in the border region
between Tibet and India. The
places were listed as Chipu,
Jihchang, Changto and Hatung
pass. They were not further
identified.
Emergency Talks Called
Indian defense officials have
admitted the loss of at least
seven border posts in the north
eastern sector and in the La
dakh theater 900 miles to the
northweSt-both remote snow
covered mountainous areas.
Both Prime Minister Jigme
Dorji of Bhutan and the Crown
Prince of Sikkim, Maharaj
Kumar Palden Thondup Nam
gyal, arrived in New Delhi for
emergency talks.
India is reported to have
asked Bhutan for permission to
send in a military defense force.
Chinese troops are driving
southwark along a line within
10 miles of Bhutan's eastern
border, and Red China has
claimed a part of Southeastern
Bhutan.
Bhutan is an independent
country, but India by treaty
handles it's foreign relations
and has a mission in the coun-
try to train its small military
force. Sikkim is an Indian pro-
tectorate.
Claimed by Red China
Years ago Red China's Mao
Tze-tung said both Bhutan and
Sikkim should be a part OF
China by right Of treaties with
old Chinese empires.
One new Chinese objective
appeared to be Chushul Air.
field, only air supply base for
Indian troops facing the Chi
nese in the Ladakh theater OF
operations, 900 miles west Of
the northeast frontier area.
The Indians mentioned fighting
| in the Pangong Lakes area,
which is near the airfield.
The Indians said fighting
also continued in the Chipchap
River valley of the Ladakh
front.
Each side continued to &C
cuse the other of aggression,
and Chinese Communist prop
uganda organs hammered on
charges linking the United
States with the border strife.
while intruding In dian
troops are launching massive
general attacks on Chinese
frontier guards" the Peiping |
paper Ia Kung Pao said, ~. S.
| imperialism has come out in
the open to support and en-
courage the Indian reaction
aries"
The United States State De-
, partment said in a statement
yesterday "our sympathy is
with India as it seeks to meet
this unprincipled challenge to
its national integrity"
So far as could be learned
India has not asked the United
States for help, although the
Kennedy administration is be-
lieved to be willing to sell India
equipment if requested by Mr..
Nehru.
The Chinese claimed today
to have captured seven Indian
strongpoints in the eastern
sector and several points in
the Ladakh area to the west.
The points in the east were
named as Jungputiu, Chekuopu,
Keningnai, Jihtingpu, Tang,
Niangpa and Drokung Bridge. /
The Ladakh points were not
identified.
The Indian government has
admitted it's troops have been
forced to fall back in the face !
of what were described as at
tacks with overwhe lmin g
strength. Various reports said |
four to seven strongpoints were
lost.
Leading Indian newspapers
said yesterday India is in a
desperate undeclared war for
survival and Defense Minister
". K. Krishna Menon said
from the way they (the Chi
nese) are going, there is no
limit to where they may CO."
Both sides have admitted
heavy casualties, but no figures
have been announced. Indian
military spokesman declined to