Rawalpindi, Aug 19.—Most of the Awami League members elected to the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly last December will face criminal prosecution, the Pakistan Government announced here today.

The Awami League obtained 284 seats out of 300 in the election. Ninety-four members of Shaikh Mujibur Rahman’s outlawed party have been authorized by the Government to keep their seats in an individual capacity.

The other 190 members, and one Independent, have been disqualified and must answer charges of “incitement to murder, rape, kidnapping, attacks on police posts and banks, armed robbery, rebellion and conspiring with the enemy”.

Twelve days ago the Government announced that 88 Awami League members of the National Assembly would be authorized to retain their seats in an individual capacity. Seventy-nine members were disqualified because of the seriousness of the accusations against them.

The Awami League was officially dissolved in March by President Yahya Khan. Most of the elected members of the league disappeared after the outbreak of violence in East Pakistan, the majority of them finding refuge in India — Agence France Press and AP.

Delhi, Aug 19.—The Director-General of India’s health services said today that more than 115,000 East Pakistan refugee children were suffering from diseases of malnutrition and 110,000 were likely to die unless given immediate treatment.

Dr J. B. Srivastava said that another 600,000 refugee children needed supplementary foods. He said his department had drawn up a nutrition programme in the hope of at least partly combating the chronic effects of the refugees’ sparse and badly balanced diet.

Philadelphia. Aug 10.—Six Bengali crewmen on a Pakistan; cargo vessel jumped ship when it docked here two days ago and plan to seek asylum in the United States, a spokesman for the men said today.

Mr Richard Taylor, spokesman for a group called the Friends of East Bengal—which is representing the crewmen—said they were now hiding in Philadelphia and would appear before a United States immigration officer tomorrow.

The crewmen had jumped ship because ‘‘they were afraid they might be pushed over the side at some point” by West Pakistani crew members.—Reuter.