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...power of 650 million Red Chinese. Alone in the mountain-locked fastness of their native land, Tibetans-like the Hungarians before them in 1956-could expect to stir the sympathy of the free world, but they could hardly count on any real help from it. Red repression in Lhasa coulu be even more brutal than in Budapest-for who would know what had been done? The single radio signal that intermittently flashes out to New Delhi from the Indian consulate in Lhasa was very weak, and its report was cautious and correct...
Ambushes & Air Raids. Since 1956 there have been repeated clashes in Tibet between Chinese garrisons and the hard-riding Khamba tribesmen, who boast that they go nowhere without their rifles, which they frequently use on everyone from rich merchants to officials from Lhasa to Communist cadres. Twenty-three years ago, when straggling parts of Mao Tse-tung's Eighth Route Army crossed Khamba territory on the famed Long March to Yenan, Khamba raiders picked off Reds by the dozens. Reportedly, Mao has never forgotten what happened-or forgiven...
...such opposition, the Chinese Reds-in a rare admission of serious trouble-promised that the communization of Tibet would be delayed at least six years. Many Chinese Red civilians were sent home. But still the Khamba insurrection flourished. Encampments of the tribesmen began to dot the wide plain around Lhasa. They consolidated their hold on the barren, treeless region that runs along the borders of India, Bhutan and Sikkim. The nervous Chinese Reds countered by erecting watchtowers along the Lhasa road, sandbagged strategic positions around the city...
...military, however, will really run the show, Premier Chou made clear. The revolt, complained Chou, had been started by a Tibetan army "clique," backed by "imperialists" raising such reactionary slogans as "Independence for Tibet." After their initial success at Lhasa, Red armies may find it harder to occupy the rugged countryside...
...Tibetan resistance. Last week the Indian consulate, lying between the Potala and Red headquarters, radioed New Delhi that there was "fighting in the immediate vicinity of the consulate. The situation is tense and rising." Then the radio fell silent. At Gyangtse, a large trading center 100 miles southwest of Lhasa, the citizens attacked the Red Chinese garrison. From Phongdo, the force of Khambas and fighting monks pushed toward the capital. At week's end the Communist-run Lhasa radio failed to come on the air with its noonday newscast; more significantly, the radio carrier wave, which indicates a station...