বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড Kushtia (Woollacott said that morale in Chuadanga was high because of the defeat of the army at Kushtia and the reports of killings by the army which made the local people very angry.) Woollacott thinks that in the Southwest of the province the army will be able to hold their cantonments at Jessore and Khulna hut to send out small parties to try and control the other towns will be very dangerous. Woollacott confirms other reports that the army have now driven liberation forces out of Jessore. | با ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS BRITISH PRESS ON PAKISTAN 13th April. 1971 by William Crawley (S) On the Pakistan crisis the British national press this morning carries news both of the internal military situation and of the international repercussions. The Times carries a report sent from Dacca two days ago by an American Associated Press correspondent, Dennis Neeld. Neeld reports that the Army is in control of the city but that thousands of families are still fleeing to their native villages from the city. According to Neeld looting by non- Bengalis is commonplace, and West Pakistani troops are still round up Awami Ieague officials and other prominent Bengalis. There is a night curfew in force in Dacca. Neeld says that about 10,000 troops are believed to have been flown into East Pakistan in the past fortnight being the strength of the Pakistan armed forces to an estimated 35,000. According to Neeld previous estimates that there were 70,000 troops in the province are exaggerated. Reports in both the Times and the Guardian suggest that it is only a matter of days before the Army will have regained control over all the main urban centers in East Bengal. According to a Times reporter, the Pakistan Army has no immediate logistics problems. Supplies and reinforcements are being flown in and the army has control of the key waterways. The Guardian reporter, Martin Woollacott, reporting from Calcutta, says that resistance in the western part of East Bengal is likely to be suppressed in a few days. The Army has gained control of the Pakse Bridge which gives access to the southwestern parts of East Bengal. Peter Hazelhurst in the Times writes of the international implications of the crisis. He reports that foreign diplomats in India fear that a serious border conflict might erupt between Indian and Pakistani forces on the frontier of East Bengal. Hazelhurst says that the most immediate danger is that members of the Bengali liberation forces may retreat across the border and set up their camps in radian territory, in which case the Pakistani forces would feel justified in following them across the border. Hazelhurst says Indian Military stragies believe that in the event of a full scale conflict between India and Pakistan, President Yahya Khan would ask China to create a diversion on the Sino-Indian border. In the Daily Telegraph, Clare Hollingsworth reporting from Karachi says test there is a danger of East Pakistan becoming another Vietnam. She says that the appointment of General Tikka Khan as Governor of East Pakistan indicates a desire on the part of the
