পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৮৫

বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড In Baltimore, the Padma, which is riding high and appears half-empty, was scheduled to load non-military goods, its shipping agents said. These goods included an unknown amount of electrolytic tinplates, which now stand in a warehouse on the pier bearing the familiar AID symbol of crossed hands on their packages. Another shipment of steel products awaits the ship in Mobile, maritime sources said About 30 members and sympathizers of the Philadelphia-based Friends of East Bengal yesterday continued their protest of the arms shipment, picketing the gate of Port Covington and holding their signs from a small flotilla of canoes near the ship. Night In Jail When the Padma arrived at Port Covington Wednesday night, city police in two boats arrested three canoes full of demonstrators. After spending the night in a Southern district lockup, six of them-all of Philadelphia-received probation without verdict for interfering with naval passage and disobeying a policeman's order. One other demonstrator was not charged. In a press conference near the gate to Port Covington yesterday" the demonstrators said they were planning to expand their protest action. WASHINGTON STAR FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1971 ‘ARMS SHIP" PROTESTS SET IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE (AP) Demonstrations were to continue today to try to stop the docking in Baltimore of the Padma, a Pakistani freighter alleged to be carrying arms and other cargo to its war-torn homeland. Police arrested six persons last night as they attempted to block the arrival of the ship using three canoes and a kayak. All were charged with obstructing the free navigation of a vessel, an officer said. Me added that "they were arrested more for their own safely." Meanwhile, the debate continued on whether cargo scheduled to be loaded on the Padma here would be placed aboard, The International Longshoremen's Association reportedly ordered its Baltimore local not to load the freighter, which protesters claim is carrying U.S. military equipment to Pakistan despite a ban on such shipments. An official of the ship's U.S. agents, East-West Shipping, denied that any military cargo was to go aboard.