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...ANGER WITH MR. NEHRU, headlined the Ambala Tribune. "The Prime Minister is on trial," reported Bombay's Free Press Journal, as angry readers' letters piled high on editors' desks. Millions now knew that the Prime Minister had for years shrugged off Chinese incursions into faraway Ladakh, Kashmir's northeast tip, had even let China cut a road through the district in 1957 without a challenge. Not until last week, when a trickle of troops moved in by air, did India even maintain army forces in the frontier area-and then only after the Chinese had shot...
...back into China, sat last week 40 miles inside territory that India has always considered its own, although Chinese maps have long claimed it for Peking. It seemed clear that Red China was out to formalize this "cartographic aggression" by annexing a 6,000-square-mile piece of mountainous Ladakh...
Then, with bland audacity, Red China's latest note hinted at a weird bargain: if India would give up a portion of Kashmir around Ladakh, China might stop its border pressure in India's Northeast Frontier Agency, a region lying 850 miles farther to the east between India and Tibet, whose frontier was settled 45 years ago when the so-called McMahon Line was defined. "If Indian troops may cross at will the traditional and customary Sino-Indian boundary in [Ladakh] for so-called patrolling, then Chinese troops would have all the more reason to come...
...word reached New Delhi that Chinese and Indian troops had clashed in their bloodiest border battle yet. "Now the fat is really in the fire," cried one Indian official. The fighting took place, New Delhi announced, at a place called Hot Springs in the district of Ladakh, 45 miles from the Kashmir-Tibet border. When two Indian constables failed to return to their camp from a patrol, a searching party of 60 to 70 Indians set out to look for them. From a hilltop Chinese troops opened fire. The Indians fired back, but were soon scattered by "grenades and mortar...
...barely escaped encirclement. An Indian plane had tried to drop munitions to the surrounded men but failed. That incident had occurred at Longju in India's North-East Frontier Agency (popularly called NEFA). It was not the first one. A thousand miles to the west, in the Ladakh district of Kashmir, Chinese Communists have repeatedly ambushed and captured isolated Indian patrols, said Nehru. As recently as July an Indian detachment (an officer and five men) was taken prisoner by Chinese troops that had established a camp "well within Indian territory...