Word: lhasa
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Early last October 3,000 mountaineer soldiers, well-equipped by Tibetan standards with castoff British battle gear, held the vital frontier fortress of Chamdo, 370 miles east of Tibet's capital, Lhasa. They were preparing for an orthodox daylight attack by the invading Red Chinese...
Night Into Day. Commanding General Nga Beu, a man of action, galloped away from the enemy to warn Lhasa of the danger, leaving his men behind. Within a few hours most of his troops, their weapons scattered, were pounding down the road after him. None of them had fired a shot. Neither had the Chinese...
...their pay and perquisites. The men were given $6 apiece and a persuasive offer to join the people's army. Most did. The Chinese Reds then entertained the new recruits with a generous demonstration of machine guns, bazookas and other non-Tibetan fireworks. General Nga Beu messaged Lhasa: "It is impossible to defeat the Communists...
...waited helplessly for their conquerors. The Reds, anxious not to disturb their future victims in India, superseded military operations with a thorough propaganda campaign of "friendship and peaceful intentions." By December local agents had raised Mao's five-starred flag over the old Chinese residency in Lhasa...
...headed south the Chinese were still some 300 miles from Lhasa. Reports from the Tibetan border citadel of Cham-do, which the Chinese captured on Oct. 19, said party commissars were giving captured Tibetan troops a thorough Communist indoctrination, 100 sangs ($5) each, and sending them back to their homes...