Delhi, Aug 12
The provisional government of Bangla Desh will oppose any attempt to place United Nations observers in East Pakistan and their lives will be in jeopardy if the international community goes ahead with the plan, the Awami League said today.

The spokesman, Mr Mizanur Rahman Chowdhry, the organizing secretary of the League, said the observers would be treated as “collaborators of West Pakistan” if they were posted in the province without the permission of the elected representatives of the people. “You know what happens to collaborators. I won’t say any more”, Mr Chowdhry said.

Put in blunt terms. Mr Chowdhry was hinting at the guerrillas policy of killing “collaborators” on the spot.

Asked to explain the provisional governments reasons for opposing the plan to station observers in East Bengal, he said: “When the West Pakistan Army was butchering hundreds of thousands of our people in the past the United Nations meekly declared that this was an internal matter of Pakistan Now that the Liberation Army is making some headway the United Nations intervenes on West Pakistan’s behalf. We shall, therefore, strongly oppose the plan.”

This afternoon. 10,000 Indians were arrested in Delhi after 300,000 supporters of the Hindu nationalist party, the Jan Sangh, had staged a demonstration near Parliament to demand the recognition of Bangla Desh.

The 10,000 volunteers marched towards strong police forces blocking the road to the Government Secretariat buildings. Under an understanding with the police they were allowed to “break through” the cordon in groups.

On the other side of the cordon they were “arrested” by obliging police officers, who ushered them into 300 buses hired by the authorities. Beaming with pleasure, the volunteers were driven off to the national sports stadium for a mass trial before a magistrate.

With the exception of an elderly Muslim who fainted when he discovered that he had attended the wrong rally and was surrounded by thousands of Hindu zealots, the rally passed off peacefully.

Our Moscow correspondent writes: Mr Gromyko, the Soviet Foreign Minister, returned to Moscow today from Delhi, where he signed a treaty of friendship with the Indian Government.

Soviet propaganda has given this treaty generous praise, and both foreign affairs commissions of the Supreme Soviet have speedily recommended it for ratification — a pure formality but one that is not always carried out so quickly.

One of the foreign affairs experts who commended it to the commissions yesterday was Mr Vasily Kuznetsov, Mr Gromyko's principal deputy, who led the Soviet delegation at the first few months of the Russian-Chinese talks which opened in Peking nearly two years ago and seem to have had little success.

Mr Kuznetsov did not mention China in the context of tire Soviet-Indian treaty, except to reiterate that it was “not aimed at any third parties”.