1. CHINESE COMMUNIST CONTROL IN SIKANG 2. MOVEMENTS OF THE PANGDATSHANGS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800500009-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Shortly after the Chir_ieue New year, :Fationaiist troops recaptured Tatsienlu
(102.02, 30-03), which read been in the possession of the Chinese Gommunists
for two and a half monhsa At that time the secret soci.aties still held
1V'ienc l? uan S, 102-46, 0.0 ) , and iica;yuaa ( 102-15, 27-53) . tto. ever,- within
a few days 1,000 mouri,ed Chinese Communist troops drove the i ati_onalists
from the Tatsionlu a;'erg, rind both lFiench'uan and .diu(,yuan fell. Lit"ang
(100-16, 30-00) and '3atang { 99-30, 30-00) surronuered but, as of mid-April
1950, were act occupied Jr.: 'c?rce by the Chinese Communists.
2,. LIU Chia-chu, formf.-r secretary to the Panchen Lama and Sikang representative
to the :Nationalist Governsent*, was appointed military governor in B.stanga,
3: in mid,-April 195.), Gezan disho, whose residence is in Betang, was in Kantzu
(99-59, 31-38), possibly for the purpose of making contact with the Vsin hai
Chinese Commun=. t occupation forces at Yushu (96-52, 33-.0l), and consolidatin,7
northern and western Sikang, Province for the Communists,.
4., In late ;.arch or early April 1950 a large party of influential persons,
incluaing, the ,,h.iaf AY.agistrates of Batang and Li jang (sic) , made a visit to
the .pant?dat.shas.-ig brothers at boto, a.-t-lareqtly for instructions.
1opE;ya1 t'angdEtshang, in '.rata ...arfh 19.50, appeared to be planning to remain
in Isoto.**
`l. I,ap(;ca I ragciat;han; and his wife were expectia, to go to Lhasa as soon as
they received word that tLeir son trad reached Lhasa ante been well-re eived,***
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has not yet been cocai;acted by the Communists, for he would have to go to
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Tatsiorilu,t to be of much assista-ice to them. In Bot,:) a mountain retreat
primarily useful as a headquarters in guerrilla fighting, he ramairrs not
only useless but also a potential menace to the Chinese Communists,
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in June 1950 and appeared to be waiting for his parants' arrival before
proceeding; to Darjeeling, where he is to enter St. Joseph's College.
Iapga ? s intended trip to Lhasa is interpreted as an indication that he
hopes for assistance from Great Britain or America, and is determined
not to throw in his lot with the Chinese Communists, despite their
offers to him.
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