444 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড The Financial Times of November 16 reports Mrs. Indira Gandhi to have said to the Congress Party executive "Bangladesh has come to stay, (here is no power on earth which can alter this real position." "Mrs. Gandhi reported to have given ultimatum over Bangladesh" was the Headline of the Times of London on November 17. In this dispatch Peter Hazelhurst reports "Mrs Gandhi the Prime Minister had given the international community a time-limit of two weeks to resolve the crisis in Bangladesh." "Mrs. Gandhi sees tide turning" was the headline of Daily Telegraph of London on November 16. David Loshak, the New Delhi correspondent of the Newspaper writes "Mrs. Gandhi the Indian Prime Minister told parliament yesterday that the international tide was turning against Pakistan." That Pakistani troops in the occupied areas of Bangladesh are getting more desperate everyday is now confirmed by the report in the Daily Telegraph of London of November 17. "Pakistanis murdered Priests" was the headline. The correspondent writes "American Roman Catholic Priest Father William P. Evans was shot dead at the weekend, 17 miles south-west of Dacca. He had lived and worked in Pakistan for 23 years" Clare Hollingsworth further writes "I was on my way to his Mission Church of Bukshnagar when he was murdered in a disputed area of no roads or telephone. The boatman he engaged to take him from Gola to the Mission described what happened to the Archbishop of Dacca who was staying at the Mission". The boatman told Clare Hollingworth "we were boating down the river when military guards ordered them to report to the local commanding officer as the boat was searched. Father Evans was questioned and allowed to return to the boat. But for some unknown reason they took Father and me out of the boat and forced us to sit in a ditch". Clare Hollingworth, the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, further describes the most criminal and treacherous act of Pakistan army in killing Father Evans, the respected American Roman Catholic Priest in Bangladesh. She writes "although the commanding officer was satisfied about the identity of Father Evans the army began firing at close range." The boatman told the correspondent "I broke lose in fear of my life and they fired at me also a couple of time but missed. I later heard from another boatman in the neighbor that Father was shot dead and his body thrown into the river." ২৫ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ The report of massive attack of Mukti Bahini on the occupation army continue to bring tremendous success every day. They have now intensified their offensives from every corner and at every sector wherever the troops of Yahya Khan are existing. The world press in almost all the capitals report on the successes of the Mukti Bahini. "In Bengali guerillas Hamlet hope is high" was the headline in the New York Times
