Other refugees reported that some Bengalis had taken vengeance by killing non-Bengali businessmen.
The foreigners said that a 7 p.m. 10 5 a.m. curfew prevails in Chittagong, that electric power, cut for three days, has been restored only in some areas of the city, and that the port was virtually shut down since there were no Bengalis to work there.
Some of the evacuees left their homes during the heavy fighting and took refuge in the Hotel Agrabad, away from the center of action.
They said that soldiers had visited some of their homes while they we away.
“The army was very polite,” Edward J. McManus, an American engineer from Montrose, N.Y., said with sarcasm. “They drank all my whisky, but they gave me all my glasses back. Very honest."
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