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441 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ পঞ্চম খন্ড more dedicated than ever. The majority of people are already anxious to break away from Pakistan and the Pakistan army commanders are beginning to realize that they are trapped in an unsinkable guerilla war." "Yahya's shrinking alies" was the editorial headline of the Guardian of London on November 9. It mentions how Pakistan is gradually being isolated and Yahya Khan's closest friend China is now gradually withdrawing her support. The editorial says "events are running inexorable against Yahya Khan. The continuing American aid stopped dead yesterday and China most devoutly...of allies has sent Yahya Khan's emissaries home from Peking with the softest of comradely cotton wool." With the American stoppage of arms supply to Pakistan, the editorial says "it leaves Yahya without western friends. The West Pakistan generals in short have come to an end of their path of bungling violence." Chinese cold behavior with Yahya Khan's representatives in Peking is also reflected when the editorial says "unease became manifest during the talks. There is no prospect of intervention by China against India if war breaks out. If war comes indeed Pakistan will be operatively alone, deserted and condemned." "Pakistan army still killing and looting-says refugees" was the headline of the Daily Telegraph, London. The Newspaper reports "it was at first thought that the wholly Muslim Pakistan army was concentrating its attacks on Hindu villages but officials regard the latest evidence as proved that the army is waging a straightforward campaign against any one thought to offer support to the idea of an Independent Bangladesh nation." ১৭ নভেম্বর, ১৯৭১ As the days go on the Mukti Bahini's offensives intensify more. "Wave of sabotage in East Bengal as border tension rises" was the headline of the London Times this week. It writes, "the most spectacular act of sabotage carried out by the guerillas was the sinking in Chittagong of a large oil tanker that was about to sail for Dacca, 7 of the crews were missing". The Newspaper's Dacca correspondent Malcolm Brown further says the guerillas have recently blown up patrol fuel supplies to hamper to Pakistan army, and have so far sank or damaged at least a dozen ships." He further writes, in the past 24 hours they have also assassinated a leading Dacca Lawyer in his room and set off three large bombs in a power station leaving Dacca and two towns nearby without electricity for most of the day. Lack of power yesterday caused a water shortage in Dacca. He goes on to say electric power in Dacca and elsewhere in East Pakistan has been progressively disrupted by sabotage to the point where there are half a dozen power outs every day. "Dacca Business Centre shaken by bomb blast" was the headline of Daily Telegraph of London on November 12. It says, a heavy explosion had shaken business centre of Dacca yesterday when a bomb exploded in a car a few yards from the entrance to the main post office. A reliable British eye-witness saw one man killed but later it was learnt 3 people were killed." About the morale of 6,000 West Pakistan Police who were brought m to East Pakistan in March is at a very low point, reports this Newspaper. It says "they