UDK World News
By United Press International
Britons flee Dacca; peasants loot, burn
KARACHI, Pakistan (UPI) Britons fleeing Dacca yesterday said thousands of starving, angry peasants were marching on the capital of East Pakistan, leaving a trail of murder, looting and arson behind them.
Refugees arriving in West Pakistan said the eastern part of the country was on the verge of civil war.
Britons arriving in Karachi from Dacca said hostility toward Americans there had "risen dangerously" and "anything can start violence which none could escape."
U. S. and British diplomatic missions in the city have prepared emergency plans to evacuate their nationals.
Dacca newspapers called the movement of peasants toward the city a "death march" and blamed it on the "corruption and oppression" of the administration of President Mohammed Ayub Khan.
Press and eyewitness reports said the citizens of Dacca were preparing for a siege by arming
themselfs and setting up defense committees to fend off their countrymen converging on the city from several directions.
Attempts by the military and groups of students to halt the movement had so far proved futile.
Thousands of persons trying to escape the violence that appeared certain to hit the city were converging on the Dacca airport. Refugees in Karachi said the blackmarket price of airline tickets was four times the normal fare.
Battle rages at Suez
SUEZ - Egyptian and Israeli forces battled with tanks, guns and artillery along a 72-mile front on the Suez Canal cease-fire line for nearly six hours yesterday. Jordan reported a 70-minute machinegun duel across its truce line with Israel near the Sea of Galilee.
Both Egyptian and Israeli military spokesman claimed heavy damages were inflicted on the other side in the cross-canal battle which rated from Qantara to Suez City until United Nations truce observers were
able to arrange a truce after one abortive attempt.
An Egyptian military communique also said the Panamanian ship Khalida was hit by an Israeli shell in the port of Suez, which lies at the southern end of the canal. It made no mention of casualties or damage to the vessel.
It said Egyptian counterfire destroyed nine Israeli tanks and a large amount of other military equipment, including rockets, and caused heavy casualties among the Israeli troops on the east bank of the waterway.
Marine offensive seizes VC cache
SAIGON (UPI) — U.S. Marines seized the largest Communist food cache of the war yesterday in a new counter-offensive, the third mounted this month to contain Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces.
The latest U.S. operation, Maine Crag, sent 3,000 Marines and flanking columns of more than 100 armored vehicles back to their abandoned bastion around Khe Sanh in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam.
Like Operation Massachusetts Striker, launched three weeks ago in the A Shau Valley but announced only Sunday, Maine Crag was designed to choke off infiltration routes along the Loatian border through which the Communists are feeding their four-week old general offensive.
The third U.S. counter offensive, Atlas Wedge, was begun last week northwest of Saigon. American intelligence officers reported yesterday that it had kept the Communists from making the assault on the capital forecast for last weekend.
The 439-ton store of rice and other foodstuffs was part of a Communist hilltop supply depot spread across an area of 94,000 square feet, approximately the size of two football fields, near Khe Sanh. Green plastic canopies covered the depot.
Other Marines in Maine Crag set up positions around Khe Sanh where they will operate to cut off Communist supply routes. A year ago, Marines at
U.S. military spokesmen said the depot also contained hundreds of cases of mortar rounds, rocket grenades, small arms ammunition and weapons.
Communist soldiers guarding the supply depot fled without a fight when a 400-man contingent of Marines moved in on it, UPI correspondent David Lamb reported from the scene.
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Egyptian losses in the fighting were put at one killed, nine wounded and one vehicle destroyed.
Khe Sanh were in the midst of a 77-day Communist siege in which 2,400 Marines were killed or wounded. When the siege was lifted last June, the Marines abandoned the base. All that remains of it now is the metal covering on its 3,900-foot airstrip.
A military spokesman in Jerusalem said "numerous" Arab oil installations and artillery emplacements were battered. No casualties were reported on the Israeli side.
Israeli military sources said the Israeli gunners knocked out eight Egyptian antitank batteries, an observation post and sank a floating oil terminal. These sources said two Egyptian lauches were set afire in the barrage.
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