Shortly after midnight, sentries posted on the lookout reported that the Chinese were advancing towards Chaku from Rupa as they could see a few hundred men on the move with mashals (torches). Accordingly, an officer knocked on the door of the basha in which Gurbax Singh was sleeping to apprise him of this new development. M. S. Brar, the commanding officer of 1 Sikh LI was furious at being woken up for what he considered a trivial matter. Convinced that the mashals were being carried by our own tribals, the colonel wanted to know if the Chinese would be so stupid as to advance down the road
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