পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৪৬

514 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড 30,000 men under Colonel Osmani have been alerted. She reports that there has been heavy fighting in Chhatak in the Sylhet district and near Comilla. There is, according to Clare Hollingworth, increasing evidence that the Chinese are giving material and moral support to the guerrillas. Indian officers are concerned about the extreme leftist tendencies developing among the guerrillas. The guerrillas are deeply' disappointed that India has not recognized Bangladesh. She also reports that there is now an open dispute between two groups described as the provisional government of Bangladesh in Calcutta and the guerrilla leader based in Tripura and that this dispute will increase leftist pressures on the guerrillas. The Times carried an extensive account of the Indian Prime Minister's press conference in Delhi yesterday at which she repeated that India did not want war nor would India do anything to provoke a situation by which a war might develop. Mrs. Gandhi also said that she saw no reason to have discussions with the Government of Pakistan because the problem lay between the government of Pakistan and the elected representatives of the people of East Pakistan. Yesterday and today (Sunday and Monday) the British press has reported and discussed events in India and Pakistan extensively. Mark Tully takes a look at this press coverage:– ☽ ! ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS INDIA PAKISTAN AND THE PRESS 25th October, 1971 by Mark Tully (S) Anyone who read all yesterday and today's British papers would emerge from the exercise in a state of total confusion. The main question which is discussed is the likelihood of war between India and Pakistan. Take today's Times and Scotsman. The Times headlines its story from Peter Hazelhurst, "Mrs. Gandhi flies abroad in spite of war threat ". The Scotsman's headline is Fears of War abate as Mrs. Gandhi leaves "for foreign tour. The Sunday Telegraph yesterday carried a story from Delhi in which it said that Mrs. Gandhi's short address to the nation before she left for her world tour must have had a soothing effect particularly in the border areas, where military preparations have according to the Sunday Times Correspondent, caused alarm. On the other hand the other two important Sunday papers emphasized the fact that India had begun to call up army reservists. The Observer correspondent said that the reservists' had been called up to keep up the Indian government's show of force at the borders to meet a similar build-up on the Pakistani side. Today's Daily Telegraph has two reports whose headlines make alarming reading. One from David Loshak in Lahore is headlined: "Pakistan Army itching to go against India," while Clare Hollingworth's story from New. Delhi is headlined, "Indian Troops poised to strike” David Loshak says that the Pakistan army is deployed in strength and