KOTWALIPARA, Pakistan, Aug, 4 (AP)—At a hideout in a 200‐square‐mile paddy swamp members of the East Pakistani. Mukhti Bahini — Liberation Army—say they are getting shipments of mines and ammunition and freshly trained Bengali reinforcements from India to support their warfare against the Pakistani Army.

“We are now settled down and equipped with heavy arms and ammunition so we can fight face to face with the Pakistani Army,” said Himayat Uddinh.

He says he is a Mukhti Bahini major commanding the force in the Faridpur district of East Pakistan. He has become some thing of a legend in this heavily Hindu rice‐growing area 80 miles south of Dacca, the provincial capital.

“We will not go back until freedom comes,” the major said. “We will keep fighting until the flag is hoisted. Bengali people with Mukhti Bahini at last have courage and strength.”

He spoke indistinctly in. Bengali to an interpreter from be hind a handkerchief tied over his nose, hiding a bullet wound through both cheeks suffered July 14 when he led an attack against Pakistani soldiers and Razakars, or pro‐Government volunteers, at a swamp settlement of Ramshill.

That battle is now counted as one of the Mukhti Bahini's victories. The major says 130 enemy soldiers and volunteers were killed.

Near Sheik Mujib's Home

He was interviewed at a family settlement on a patch of high ground in a swamp area about eight miles east of Gopalganj, the hometown of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, leader of the banned Awami League, who was arrested when the army moved against the separatist movement in the East on March 25.

The league, a political party, had won virtually every seat in last winter's national elections for a national assembly that was to draft a constitution. Sheik Mujib regarded the result as a mandate to seek a large degree of autonomy for the East.

The rebels move freely by boat through the area. The major had a dozen bodyguards who carried bolt‐action rifles or Sten guns.

He says his force has killed more than 60 collaborators, including four chairmen of local ruling councils.

The major asserted that his rebels had trained 5,000 recruits in four months. But source close to the rebels said the actual strength was closer to 800, including 200 in his camp who usually moved every two or three nights.

Monsoon rains have flooded the paddy area. Water is expected to continue rising until September, providing a possible avenue for boats carrying arms and men from India, under cove of darkness.

The rebels agreed that Sheik Mujib was “the only leader” but that they would not follow him if he participated in a compromise that included continued links with West Pakistan. President Agha Mohammad Yayha Khan said last month that Sheik Mujib would be tried soon, but did not specify the charge.