SIALKOT, Pakistan, Nov. 29—Pakistani war equipment was streaming toward the border of India today in fleets of civilian trucks commandeered by the army.

But residents of this thriving city seemed scarcely concerned with the ominous preparations as they jammed the well‐stocked bazaars on their normal business.

Villages closer to West Pakistan's border have been largely evacuated and residents have moved in with relatives farther from the frontier. But there is no mass movement of civilians to the rear and little apparent public fear of the Indian Army Massed eight miles from here.

Sialkot, near the northeast corner of West Pakistan, is close to the border of both India and Kashmir, a region bitterly disputed by India and Pakistan. In the Indian Pakistani war of 1956, Sialkot was a principal target of the Indians and presumably would be so again if general war broke out. The fighting going on now is 1,000 miles away—on the Indian‐East Pakistani border.

Trains and trucks were moving a steady flow of olive drab military equipment, including combat bridges, across the dusty Punjab plains from Rawalpindi to the border.

Here and there platoons soldiers pushed disabled army trucks up steep hills to get them out of the way. In Sialkot, newly organized civil defense teams were checking black‐out preparation, super vising the digging of trenches and making sure hospitals were prepared.

From high points in this town, India is clearly visible in the distance but residents seem uninterested in the view.

“I was here during the 1965 war,” an American missionary nurse said, “and our hospital was shelled. I am no hero and I will certainly leave if fighting begins. But I am confident we will have plenty of warning.”

Reports reached here of increasingly hard fighting be tween Indian and Pakistani troops along the border of East Pakistan, but the border between West Pakistan and India remained quiet.

Troops were guarding bridges and military police men were checking vehicles on roads near the frontier, but the general impression was essentially peaceful. A few families, their beds and other belongings loaded on oxcarts, were seen returning to border villages they only lately evacuated.

These families apparently feel that the danger of war has receded since the crisis began a Week ago.

Camels, donkeys, oxen and flocks of sheep are seen on the roads as usual, and the business of threshing the wheat crop seems to be the main preoccupation.

“If it comes, it comes,” one farmer said with a shrug. “Whatever happens in this world, including war, is God's will and nothing any human being does can change that.”