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493 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড Army to move towards a more representative from of government. Miss Hollingworth says that President Yahya Khan hopes that the formation of national caretaker government will remedy the damage that Pakistan's image abroad has suffered as a result of the military action in East Pakistan. \b| ASIANTOPICAL TALKS PRESS REVIEW ON PAKISTAN 15th April, 1971 by Mark Tully (S) The Daily Express, a popular British Daily, leads today with a report from Sylhet District in the North East part of East Pakistan sent by their reporter Donald Seaman. He tells a distressing story of the suffering there. There is also a report from Sylhet in the Daily Telegraph by David Loshak. He reports that the armies are doing their best to crush all resistance before the monsoons start but the battle is by no means over. Morale amongst the resistance fighters is still high, according to Loshak, although they are very inadequately equipped. Morale amongst the peasants however is very low and food is scarce. The army's strategy appears to be aimed at cowing the people by causing the maximum distress and doing lasting damage the area. Sylhet he says is a ghost city. In Loshak's view the army has no hope or gaining control of the countryside before its movements are restricted by the monsoons. There is also an article in the Telegraph by Simon Dring who was in Dacca at the time of the talks before the banning of the Awami League and who toured the city after the army moved in. Dring feels that resistance will not last long because the resistance movement is inadequately organized and equipped. There is a report in the Times from Michael Hornsby writing from Calcutta. Hornsby feels that the resistance to the army is East Pakistan will now have to go underground. The reported formation of an independent government cannot, in his view, after this fact. Hornsby is anyhow doubtful about the report because the only source for it is Indian reports based they claim on monitoring of Free Bengal Radio. Indian coverage of the crisis has, in Hornsby's opinion, not been objective. He points out that the Indian press has not tried to investigate well supported reports of killings of non Bengalis by the Bengalis. 이 ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS INTERVIEW WITH J. STONEHOUSE M.P. & MARK TULLY On Aid Problems arising from E. Pakistan situation Two "British members of Parliament, both members of the Labour Party have just returned from West Bengal. They have been studying the refugee problem caused by the