Mukti and Tajuddin

Workers Press no. 647, 28 December 1971 · scan page 2

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DINAJPUR RANGPU BOGRA MYMENSINGH SYLHET RAJSHAHI • PABNA • KUSHTIA DACCA FARIDPUR COMILLA • JESSORE KHULNA Wifer COX'S BA IN YET another shift to the League leaders are conspiring to Desh a one-party state.

Premier Tajuddin Ahmed has decreed his government will consist of Awami League members only and that there will be no new elections.

This new and most important sign that reaction is growing in Bangla Desh comes when authorities led by Tajuddin have made a formal move to destroy the independence of the guerrilla movement.

Speaking in Dacca, the premier relegated the burn. ing issue of a new constitution to second place behind the campaign to establish law 'and 'order.

By this Awami League leaders mean curbing possible independent action by the Mukti Bahini guerrillas.

Tajuddin's statement warned they may have to surrender their arms. He ordered guerrilla forces, who led the nine-month struggle against the W Pakistan army, report camps every province where they would be absorbed into a national militia under control of the civil authorities. STEPHEN JOHNS a Mut Bahin group during the recent war with paklotan Sheikh Mujib declared for total independence only after the Pakistani massacre began on March 26, when it was impossible for him to further resist the mass pressure from below.

In fact the Sheikh-up to the very day of hostilities-had been attempting to reach a rotten comproMini: India intru ritor, CHINESE SE PROTEST CHINESE Foreign stry yesterday accused n troops and aircraft of ding into Chinese tershipping THE AMOUNT of world shipping laid up because of the trade recession has soared by almost 200 per cent since the beginning of August.

Figures released today by the UK Chamber of Shipping show the gross tonnage of world shipping idle at the end of November was 3,307,000.

'A total of 533 ships were without work and this amounted to 2 per cent of the world fleet.

The corresponding figures for August were 1.3 million gross tons and 206 ships.

The opening of the trade war on August 15 by President Nixon has particularly hit the charter lines who hire out their ships to anyone.

Greece (144 laid up) and Liberia (52 laid up) were the hardest hit by the end of last month.

In August their figures were 52 and 20.

More jobless The number of British ships laid up at the end of November was 55, involving a gross tonnage of 453,000.

At the beginning of August the number without work was 19. • Behind these figures is the growing unemployment among Britist seamen.

Some 3,000 were without ships, according to the latest available figures-6 per cent - of all National Union of, Seamen members.

ND BORDER TO INDIA that on December 15 eight Indian soldiers crossed China's On the same 1allan