1971.12.22, Country (Malaysia), Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Times)
Pakistan Gunboat Arrives In Malaysia Port Penang, Malaysia. Dec. 2. A Pakistan Navy gunboat with 47 people on board arrived here today. Sources said it was seeking provisions and repairs. The officers and crew refused to say why the British-built vessel Rajshahi had...
1971.05.15, Newspaper (Times), Refugee
Unbelievable Misery Peter Hazelhurst Bongaon, May 14-An overworked medical officer pointed hopelessly towards the never ending stream of refugees from East Bengal who so far have almost doubled the population of the Indian town of Bongaon, 50 miles north-east of...
1971.06.01, Newspaper (Times), Refugee
Bengal’s Suffering Millions For six weeks now the flow of refugees from East Pakistan into India has gone on relentlessly, into Tripura in the east, into Assam in the north, and heaviest of all into West Bengal. Despite the heroic efforts assembled by the Indian...
1971.04.21, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
West Pakistan Troops Use Tanks In Drive To Seize Rebel-Held Towns Michael Hornsby Bongaon, India-East Pakistan Border, April 11, The Pakistan Army moved out of its guarded cantonments in East Pakistan this weekend in what appeared to be an attempt to seize some of the...
1971.11.02, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Mukti Bahini Set A 12-Month Target Jim Hoagland reports from a guerrilla base on the Indo-Pakistan frontier India’s militarily explosive border with East Pakistan lies several hundred yards from the small frontier of Boira, where a smiling young Indian Army...
1971.07.25, Guerrilla Training, Newspaper (Times)
Guerrillas Say 20,000 Pakistanis Killed From Our Correspondent Tripura, East Pakistan Border. July 22. East Bengal freedom fighters claim to have killed between 15,000 and 20,000 West Pakistani troops and wounded many others so seriously that they “must have succumbed...
1971.12.15, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Moves to avoid a massacre Delhi, Dec 14- Mr Humayan Rashid Chaudury, head of the BanglaDesh mission here, said today that measures had been taken to prevent a massacre of non-Bengali Muslims in BanglaDesh by the “liberated Bengalis.” Bad feelings toward those...
1971.12.16, BD-Govt, Newspaper (Times)
Move to Dacca Planned By Bengal Regime Calcutta, Dec. 15. The Bangladesh Government is remaining in Calcutta while waiting for the Indian Army, with the help of the Mukti Bahini, to capture Dacca. As soon as the East Pakistan capital falls, the Government plans to...
1971.03.30, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Bengalis Fight for ports to starve Army into Defeat Peter Hazelhurst Calcutta, March 29, As the civil war in East Pakistan entered its fourth day today, Free Bengal Radio, a clandestine station, announced that the “Liberation Army” and West Pakistan troops were locked...
1971.04.05, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Rebel Fighters Lacking Leadership, Food And Medical Supplies Peter Hazelhurst Jessore city, April 4, This is a war that no one can imagine. On my left is an Army division, holed up in their barracks and surrounded by 2,000 non descript freedom fighters and about 500...
