Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday december 13, 1971 Dacca Battle looms continued Afler beating off a counter at tack during which they killed 23 pakistani soldiers and took 12 prisoners. There was no official word on Indian casualties. The Indian spokesman was unable to say whether the Para troops had linked up with an other Indian column advancing from the Meghna River to the Northeast. These troops were reported to have taken Narsing i 25 Miles from the capital and to be now advancing fast towards the main drive on Dacca is from the Southeast and some reports placed in near Daud Kandi 20 Miles away. East pakistani guerrillas in Dacca and its suburbs were said to be awaiting the signal for a general uprising but so far no fighting was reported in the City itself. The Indian spokesman declined to say exactly How far the Indian airborne troops were from Dacca but added they might be in More than one the military spokesman in Calcutta said pakistani troops had surrendered so far in that part of East Pakistan lying East of the Meghna River area now completely in in Dian hands. Pakistan denied this. These included 987 pakistanis who surrendered sunday in co Milla District alone. South of Dacca in the Bay of Bengal the Indian Navy maintained heavy pressure on the trapped pakistani forces. A spokesman at India s East Ern naval Headquarters of Visakhapatnam said Indian War ships and Carrier borne aircraft were still carrying out a series of strikes. Naval ships to bombarded chit t a g o n g Harbor and aircraft scored direct hits on runways at the City s Airport the spokes Man said. The Airport was unlikely to be in operation for at least 24 hours he estimated. The government spokesman in new Delhi said Indian ships and aircraft had sunk several Small Craft and an escorting gunboat carrying pakistani troops trying to escape South wards through the Bay of Ben Gal. They appeared to have been trying to reach Burma. The Indian army chief of staff Gen. Sam Manekshaw said saturday he knew the pakistani forces were planning a mass breakout from the Chittagong area and in a special broadcast Mer chant ships and the arme forces in them will be destroyed if you Endeavor to to an official pakistani spokes Man claimed that Pakistan forces have killed India troops since the War started o the Western front and o the Eastern front. The spokesman Furulie claimed that 166 Indian tank were destroyed and damage on both fronts. A map of India s Eastern Mil itary Headquarters in Calcutt indicated about two thirds c East Pakistan is in India hands. As the indians Drew close t Dacca three British planes or sunday evacuated More tha 400 foreigners including canadians from the City in a tens four hour Airlift. They wer flown to Calcutta. Some of the refugees arriving in Calcutta said some foreign ers who wanted to leave wer left behind for Lack of space they reported that one a Clung to the door of the Las plane and fell to the ground a the plane taxied slowly Alon the runway. Among those who stayed in gorgeous imitations of topazes aquamarines garnets alexandrite amethysts and sapphires. You can choose any of these synthetic stones to be set in any of the above 10kt. Yellow and White Gold mountings. Which Are from to downtown store Only Birks Beautiful Creole earrings which show their French and Spanish heritage proudly and gracefully. In 18kt. Yellow Gold. Our wide variety of designs includes earrings for pierced ears m both polished and textured Gold. Those shown Here Are from to Birks the City were 17 american officials a few in and re Cross workers and missionaries and about 50 journalists. Indian planes resumed bomb ing the Airport 15 minutes after a six hour ceasefire for the evacuation. Indian authorities said Minrul crowds in the pakistani capita of Islamabad in West Pakistan Cut Short an evacuation of for Eigners during cease fire there. The foreign minister in new Delhi said seven plane managed to leave with an undisclosed number of foreigners but seven others were stranded at the Airport and one a forced to turn Back without Landing because of the mob. No major fighting was reported along the Border Between India and West Pakistan by the indians claimed capturing some pakistani outposts in the Rajasthan desert and in Kash Mir near Kargili. A pakistani military spokes Man said pakistani plane bombed Indian air bases am army concentrations in the Pun Jab Kashmir and Rajasthan area saturday night but gave no assessment of damage. Reporters have been Barrec from most of the War fronts and have been unable to verify 01 disprove the conflicting claims but correspondents who mad unauthorized trips toward t h t Western front last week did Noi find signs of the heavy fighting claimed by the. Pakistanis. J peace terms set out United nations a Ndia declared sunday night that there can be a ceasefire and withdrawal of Indian armed forces if the rulers of Pakistan withdraw their own orces from East Pakistan and reach a peaceful settlement with the insurgent leaders. The conditions were Laid Down in a letter from Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi to Secretary general u Thant As the Security Council consid ered an urgent proposal by the United states for a new cease ire Appeal. The United states sought unsuccessfully to get a vote Sun Day night on its Resolution. The Council adjourned Early this morning until later today. Soviet ambassador Jacob a. Malik threatened to veto the . Resolution if the United tates pressed for a decision. Sardar Swart Singh India s o r e i g n minister read mrs. Gandhi s letter after telling the Council it was unrealistic to make a further cease fire Effort without first hearing a representative of the Bangladesh insurgents. The Council brushed Side requests for a Bangladesh hearing at its sessions ast weekend. Singh told the 15-country Council that any solution to conflict will have to take nto account the views of the government and people of Zangla ambassador George Bush in Rodu cd the new . Resold on after insisting that the Council demand immediate compliance with a similar Cea fire approved by the general Assembly last tuesday night. The foreign minister of pakis an Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said it would be a tragic precedent or the world at Large if pakis is allowed to be Dis Mem ered by Force. Today it is he Aid. Tomorrow it will be thu Bhutan is already in the Sikkim is already in the Nepal is not yet in the but it is going to be very he suggested other neighbors including Ceylon Afghanistan and eventual would be taken Over. Bhutto said it would make no offer since to Pakistan if India and its supporters delayed unction by a Day or two by what called a filibuster. He expressed Confidence that Dacca the beleaguered capital e East Pakistan would not be nother Dunke que. Dacca is not going to fall so he said. The people of East Pakistan will stand Dom 1 Itaev to defend Dacca to the i the proposal put Forward by j Bush was almost identical to j the one approved by the Assem i Bly after two soviet vetoes had prevented Council action. The . Resolution noted a Kislan already had accepted Oie ceasefire Appeal. J because of lengthy private j consultations among the 15 Council members the session j began at p.m., More than three boors after the scheduled i Hoar. S la her message to Thant mrs. Gandhi said India accept a ceasefire and draw her forces to India Terr to to if West Pancis Foffi its forces for Psi East Arr a winces a peaceful an. A. A. A a ser citizens Ewe to so Basss a desk Feefe of saxes we d. C. Steuart leads sask. Liberals sask. Victory to Steuart continued i did t like the regimentation i did t like what was Hap pening. I just Don t like social ism. I Don t worship on the altar of free Enterprise either. I thought Well if you Don t like what you see do something about or. Steuart married with two children was an Alderman and mayor in Prince Albert where he has a business and is a former president of the Liber Al party. He got the legislature in a by election in Prince Albert in 1962 and has won every election since in the Riding now known As Prince Albert West. After the Liberal Victory in l964, he was named minister of Calth later became minister of natural resources and before the june Liberal defeat he was provincial treasurer and Deputy Weymier. One thing that bothers or. Steuart is the Liberal party Lailure to attract.50 per cent of the vote since. 1938 while the Kcf or nip has done it two or three that s something i Hope to do something about by opening up the party More at the local Evel establish policy at the ocal said or. Trudeau who was flanked on a stage by 10 Cabi net ministers and most of que Bec s 56 Liberal my s. The prime minister who was interrupted by applause six times during his 20-minute speech said that social Justice and Prosperity will remain the two priority objectives of the Liberal party. These were our two themes in 1968 and these Are the two themes we wish to he referred to the obligation of government to work for the Good of All people noting that it was to this aim that his govern ment is pledged. Promising continued redistribution of wealth among the Richer and poorer provinces and a better Deal for minority groups such As indians and eskimos or. Trudeau said it was his party s major objective to More Equality More social Justice in every Section of Canadian during his speech which was delivered mostly in French the prime minister said you wanted recognition of red China a capital gains tax a revision in nato Well Buster you got pm replies to critics continued earlier in the Day on a French language open line radio show broadcast across the prov Ince on a network of private stations or. Trudeau told a caller that asking him hypothetical questions about separatism was like asking an atheist about god. Or. Trudeau declined to sup port a recent statement by his parliamentary Secretary York North my Barnett Danson that any referendum on Quebec in dependence should be limited to Quebe cers. He noted that or. Danson had expressed his own Opin during a visit to Quebec City last month the prime minister said the election of a separatist government in the province would t necessarily mean an Independent Quebec. Or. Trudeau became annoyed when one caller from Chicou Timi suggested Quebe cers would finally be free in 1976. How Are you not free right now if you Don t feel free it s not my he responded. Questioned about Quebec s High unemployment rate the prime minister conceded that it is a major problem although he noted that there Are ten thou Sand Job vacancies in Mon Treal. M r. Trudeau also fielded questions about pensions the . Import surcharge and import restrictions to help the shoe and shirt industries. One caller from Quebec City announced he was the father of 11 children. Well you re Way ahead of me on noted or. Tru deau., his wife Margaret expects the couple s first child this month. Nixon meeting Pompidou continued Nixon arrived some six hours Ater. Terceira Island was selected for the Franco american sum Mit mainly because it houses a . Air Force base. After France and West Ger Many patched up their differences a week ago Pompidou it it be known he would present a coordinated Europe an approach to the Long last my Money dispute. He recognizes that no con Crete solution to the current crisis can be reached Here. Such a solution also would de Pend on Summit talks Nixon is o have during the coming weeks with British prime min ister Edward Heath West Ger Man Chancellor Willy Brandt and japanese Premier Eisaku Sato. A conference in washing ton later this week of the 10 i Hest non communist nations also will play an important role. Just in time for the holidays the beneficial it s Cash for Holiday shopping plus Cash for holi Day travel plus Cash for gifts plus Cash for expenses plus Cash just to have and enjoy it s the plus loan at beneficial finance. Cash for any Good any any other. 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