বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড ᏚᏖᎮ ! বাংলা 13.4.71. A.19 1230 PAKISTAN FOLLOW (HUBS) An American correspondent who was recently able to get into the East Pakistan capital. Dacca, said he found the once heavily populated districts a black wilderness of ashes and bamboo stumps-all that remained of the homes of thousands. The correspondent-from the news agency. Associated Press-said that the city, under strict curfew, during darkness, was patrolled by West Pakistan troops and that he had heard rifle fire at night. While he was in Dacca, the correspondent said West Pakistan troops continued to pour in by air. But there were signs that life was returning to normalessential services were functioning and shops had re-opened. K W I (XX) (from 0200): JU 1225; sat STMa ! বাংলা 16.471 A.49 2300 INDIA-PAKISTAN (mainly HUBS) Radio Pakistan says that saboteurs tried to blow up the. Kaptai hydroelectric power station near the East Pakistan port of Chittagong on Thursday, but were wiped out by Pakistani troops before they could cause any damage. The radio said the army had also foiled an attempt to dynamite a power plant on the River Meghna. It quoted an official spokesman in Dacca as saying that an Indian report that Pakistani troops had fired across the Indian border was totally baseless. Correspondents say that Pakistan army forces are advancing on the town of Chuadanga-one of the main strongholds of the supporters of Sheikh Mujib-ur Rahman. Saboteurs from 2000 Denial MON (PAK) Chuadanga (A P-Neeld) (Times-Hornsby) 223.5/sjc ૨૦ | বাংলা 17.4.71 C. 42 1500 PAKISTAN A group of East Pakistanis have proclaimed what they call the Government of independent Bangladesh under the acting presidency of Mr.Syed Nazrul Islam. At a village (Baidyanathala) just inside East Pakistan, Mr. Syed Nazrul Islam read a proclamation to about five thousand people gathered in a mango grove, saying his government appealed to all countries of the world to come to the aid of his people. He named a cabinet with Mr. Tajuddin Ahmed as his Prime Minister and Mr. K. M. Ahmed as his Foreign Minister. A group of foreign correspondents came from the Indian side of
