The Daily
Morning News
20 MAY 1971
News headlines and details from the Daily Morning News.
News Headlines:
- 8 ships carrying wheat, rice, sugar reach Dacca.
- 3 MNAs-
elect dissociate from AL . - India prepared to fight, says Indira.
- Thant gratified at Pak acceptance of UN aid offer.
- Enemy's attempt to divide Pakistan foiled, says Lt. Gen. Gul.
Other Headlines:
- Rs. 4 crore SBP credit for East Pakistan.
A total of eight ships carrying rice, wheat, sugar and soyabean oil have reached Dacca from Chittagong and Chalna ports for distribution in Dacca and despatch to various other destinations in the province.
These ships carried approximately 23,000 maunds of Chinese and Japanese rice, 20 maunds of wheat, 29,000 maunds of soyabean oil and 13,000 maunds of sugar.
Two ships carrying approximately 23,000 mounds of Chinese reached Dacca for distribution among the rationees through ration dealers.
Two ships, one from Chittagong port and the other from Chalna port carrying approximately 20,700 maunds of bulk wheat have also reached Dacca for distribution among the rationees through ration dealers in Dacca city and other parts of the province.
Two ships from Chittagong port carrying about 29,000 maunds of soyabean oil and two vessels carrying approximately 13,000 maunds of sugar from the Jagati sugar mills, Kustia, have reached Dacca.
About 2000 maunds of soyabean oil and 700 maunds of sugar have already been despatched for various destinations unloading of these basic commodities is going on in full swing. Hundreds of labourers have been engaged to unload the ships quickly.
Rangpur, May 19 (PPI): Three MNAs-
The tree MNAs-
They have condemned in the strongest possible terms the nefarious Indian aggression against East Pakistan and widespread destruction of life and property of our people by the Indian infiltrators and their collaborators.
They have appealed to the people to uphold the ideology of our great homeland and put in vigilant efforts to protest the country's integrity and sovereign.
New Delhi May 19 (UPI): Prime Minister Indira Gandhi warned Pakistan on Tuesday India "is fully prepared to fight if a situation is forced on us".
Simultaneously, Indian envoys were reported to have alerted London and Paris that India will be forced to act in its national interest in face of the "increasing numbers from East Bengal."]
The envoys were acting on instructions from New Delhi in the wake of an Indian note to Pakistan delivered recently.
The note said that the growing tide of refugees, now estimated at over 2.6 millions, "leading to a threat to peace, in the region."
The minister gave the warning from the Himalayan Hill Station of Ranikhet in Uttar Pradesh state.
Mrs. Gandhi said the refugees have created a number of problems "which will effect severely the nation's economic, social and political life."
The London correspondent of the widely circulated Hindustan Indian High Commissioner in London called on the British prime minister, Edward Heath Monday and informed him of the problems the refugees have created for India.
The correspondent said the India High Commissioner told Heath that "The unending refugee inflow from East Bengal is rapidly building up to a situation that might force India to act to protect its national interest."
Indian Ambassador in France, Mr. Chatterjee, made a similar statement and called on a senior French Government official, according to the Hindustan Times correspondent.
United Nations, May 19 (APP/Reuters): UN Secretary General U Thant is gratified that Pakistan has decided to accept his offer of aid for the people of East Pakistan through UN agencies, a spokesman here said yesterday.
The Secretary General has asked Pakistan's UN Ambassador Mr. Aghashahi for more details of his government's need before taking action of the request, the spokesman added.
President Yahya Khan's Economic Affairs Advisor M.M. Ahmed called on U Thant on Monday and told Secretary General of the aid required mostly food, and water transport to help carry it into the interior of East Pakistan.
Mr. Ahmed also suggested that some 200 UN experts, who left East Pakistan during fighting between the Pakistani Army and Bengali separatists last March, could resume their work in the country from June 1.
The UN spokesman said yesterday that U Thant had not yet made a decision about the return of the experts but was waiting for further information.
Karachi, May 19 (APP): Lt.-
Replying to a welcome address presented at an annual dinner of the Karachi Bar Association
held here at a local hotel, he said the malicious and dastardly attempt made by some
enemy inspired traitors to divide, weaken and destroy the very foundation and existence
to the beneficence of Allah, the selfless and inspiring leadership of the Quaid-
The Mussalmans of Bengal, Baluchistan, Frontier, Punjab and Sind along with their
brethren in faith in other parts of this sub-
He said no price could be too great to save the honour and integrity of a state born out of the express desire and will of the entire people forming part of it.
By the grace of Allah the prompt, vigilant action of our Armed Forces with the backing of the loyal and patriotic elements against the miscreants in the eastern part of Pakistan were on the run. The enemy's back had been broken and his hopes for the break up of this country had been shattered.
He said, "It is imperative that all of us, whether in East Pakistan, West Pakistan or abroad should address ourselves earnestly to our work with redoubled energies so that the economic blow which we have suffered could be recouped at the earliest."
He said, "The enemy could not, through external aggression, violate the sanctity of even an inch of this land for this nation has earlier proved in no uncertain terms, if any proof was needed, that it has the capacity to repel and humble the planned attack of a country many times stronger to it militarily.
"The world witnessed this nation rising as one, sinking all internal differences, to stand up against the threat posed to its security and existence," he said.
"The frustrated enemy appears to have changed his tactics and wishes to hit us by creating conditions which may bring about internal bickering and economic crisis", the Governor added.
"We have to be on our guard against such designs and against the machinations of the enemy agents. We have to be prepared for any sacrifice that may be necessary to build Pakistan into a strong country. We have to work hard and tighten our belts.
"The time demands a conscious effort by every citizen of this country.
He said the evils like evasion of taxes, smuggling and corruption were as harmful to the nation as any internal or external conspiracy against Pakistan. He added, "It is high time that we eschew these evils and look down upon people who are found indulging in such evils with the contempt that they deserve.
He was confident that people in both wings of the country will rise to the occasion to prove their mettle to the world once again.
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