1971.06.05, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Cholera ‘out of Control By Ian Ward in Calcutta The cholera epidemic in West Bengal is “totally out of control,” the State’s Health Director, Dr. Mira Harilal Saba, said yesterday. Repeating urgent requests for international aid he said: “We need anti-cholera...
1971.06.12, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bangladesh Plans for new offensive Norman Kirkham Diplomatic Staff Bangladesh guerrillas, armed with weapons from Czechoslovakia and China, are planning a new offensive against the West Pakistan Army. Reports reaching London suggest that harassing tactics will be...
1971.11.03, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Guerrillas Start Street Warfare In East Pakistan By Clare Hollingworth in Dacca Forty Thousand Bangladesh Guerrillas are now operating inside East Pakistan, and posing grim problems for the West Pakistan Army, which is generally deployed along the 1,300-mile frontier...
1971.12.16, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bangladesh Gives pledge on civilians The Bangladesh Government declared yesterday that it respected the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war and civilians. All India Radio reported. The radio said the self-styled government also promised to help the...
1971.12.18, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Bangla Desh reconstruction era begins From A.B. Musa Dacca, Dec 17 The BanglaDesh Government has begun work on a new constitution and new election to be held in the middle of next year. The “war cabinet of five headed by the acting President. Mr Nazrul Islam, has set...
1971.12.18, Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Upset By Parasite Policy By our Diplomatic staff Dissatisfaction in East Pakistan over economic and political disparity between the country’s two wings has been a festering sore since partition. From the beginning West Pakistan has been a parasite on the...
1971.11.15, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Telegraph)
BanglaDesh rulers win confidence of liberated areas By Clare Hollingwrth in a “liberated jone ” 80 miles inside East Pakistan The BanglaDesh district commissioner, late of the Royal Navy and Willesden Technical College in London, said “ “We are a desperate...
1971.11.15, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph), Yahya Khan
India Awaits pressure on Yahya By David Loshak in New Delhi The Indian Cabinet, meeting after the return of Mrs Gandhi, the Prime Minister, from her Western tour, decided yesterday on a “wait and see policy“ on the Indo-Pakistan crisis. Mrs Gandhi is understood...
1971.11.15, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
Indian Snub for BanglaDesh Team By David Loshak In Delhi A Two-Man delegation from the unofficial “Government of BanglaDesh”, left Delhi yesterday for Calcutta empty-handed after appealing for more support from India. The delegation comprised Mr Hossain Ali,...
1971.12.13, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Telegraph)
Independent Bangladesh Government Takes Over in Jessore Drive to Restore Law and Order First Priority The Government of independent Bangladesh, which returned over the weekend to the former Pakistani district capital of Jessore, has stated that its first priority is...
