SUADIH, Pakistan, Dec. 5 —The ruins of this small East Pakistani village are still smoldering — the mud huts with thatch roofs smashed by Indian artillery shells homing in on retreating Pakistani troops.

On the edge of the village, in a vegetable field, the bodies of 22 Pakistani soldiers lie sprawled in the trenches of their bunkers, where they were overpowered by a superior Indian force with tanks.

Nearby, Bengalis gather on the roads to shout “Joi Bangle!” or “Victory for Bengal!” to the conquering Indian troops as they pass.

These are the marks of the two‐day‐old Indian invasion of East Pakistan, whose aim clearly is to bring the 80,000 Pakistani troops here to their knees and to establish an independent Bangla Desh, or Bengal Nation, on East Pakistani soil.

In this area, the Jessore sector, the Indian forces— who greatly outnumber and outgun the Pakistanis—had by nightfall pushed to Kotchandpur, a town about miles inside East Pakistan. They were driving on toward Kaliganj and Jhenida to cut off the Pakistani escape routes to Dacca, East Pakistani capital.

The village of Suadih, miles inside East Pakistan, was a battle stop on the to Kotchandpur. It was finally wrested from the retreating Pakistanis in the early hours of this morning after a fierce battle that lasted about hours. The Indians say lost six killed and the Pakistanis 22.

As Indian officers explained it this afternoon, standing amid the Pakistani bodies, two companies of Pakistanis from a Punjab bat talion, about 250 men, had straddled the road at Suadih to try to halt the Indian advance.

The Indians viewed a frontal attack as “suicidal.” So they sent a company around to attack from the north, with another company in re serve. Three light PT‐76 tanks and artillery moved in to support the Indian troops.

Villagers Fled

The battle began about midday yesterday. One of the Pakistani companies retreated. The other, dug into bunkers in the vegetable field, made a stand. The villagers of Suadih had already fled into the bush.

From the look of the battlefield, the Pakistanis put up a very hard fight. Two of the Indian tanks were disabled in mine fields, but the artillery pounded the Pakistani positions relentlessly. The field is pockmarked with shell holes.

Most of the Pakistanis appear to have been killed by the shelling. The Indians finished them off with an infantry charge, hurling grenades into the bunkers.

One of the bunkers was overrun by the remaining tank.

Each bunker held two or three bodies. One bunker had caved in burying its occupants; all that could be seen were two booted feet protruding through the dirt.

In another, a soldier, seemingly unmarked, lay perfectly straight on his back, his eyes closed, as if in a coffin.

Some of the Pakistanis died outside the bunkers. A few lay in nearby fields, killed as they tried to retreat:

Two lay sprawled in a bamboo clump where a shell had hit them, an unbroken hand mirror and shaving gear strewn around them.

A small piece of paper was lying beside one man. It was a “leave, certificate,” saying that Lance Cpl. Mohammad Bashir, of Company B of the 50th Punjab Regiment stationed in Rawalpindi in West Pakistan, could go home to visit his family for two days last month—Nov. 20 and 21. It was apparently his last week end pass before being shipped off to fight in East Pakistan, more than 1,000 miles away.

Some of the Pakistanis tried to retreat through the village. The Indians pounded them with artillery, destroying most of the village as they did so.

Many of the mud huts were leveled. In others, the walls were smashed or the thatch roofs destroyed by fire. These fires were still burning this evening, and villagers with clay pots had set up a relay from, the village pond to try to extinguish them. Other villagers picked through the ruins for the fragments of their belongings.

Not far from Suadih, three Bengalis were killed by the retreating Pakistanis, apparently on suspicion of having collaborated with the Mukti Bahini (Liberation Forces)— the Bengali insurgents fighting for the independence of East Pakistan.

‘Very Meager’ Resistance

A Sikh brigadier of the Indian Fourth Infantry. Division, who, declined to give his name, said that despite some stiff fights in a few places, like Suadih, the Pakistani Army resistance was “very meager” in this sector.

“After they got a beating here,” the turbaned, bearded commander said, “they didn't fight much at Kotchandpur.”

The brigadier said his troops were pushing on to Kaliganj and Jhenida, to the east and northeast respectively, because “these are the main routes of withdrawal for the Pakistanis to Dacca.”

The largest concentration of Pakistani troops in the Jessore sector is in the area around Jessore City, which is being pounded by Indian planes.

Almost continuous truck convoys carrying Indian troops and supplies were rolling into East Pakistan from India's West Bengal State late into the night. The convoys, which threw up choking clouds of dust, were carrying howitzers, antiaircraft guns, 120‐mm. mortars, prefabricated bridges and great quantities of gasoline.

Most of the areas the Indians have captured are still largely deserted, the residents having fled to India in earlier months to escape the Pakistani Army, which moved in last March in an attempt to crush the Bengali autonomy movement. Nearly 10 million Bengali refugees are estimated to be in India now. They have posed a threat to the country's stability and are one of the main reasons the Indians became so deeply involved in the situation.

A Few Return

A few Bengalis are beginning to return to the areas now cleared of Pakistani troops. But most houses in the towns remain shuttered, acres of overgrown sugar cane are still uncut, and the endless fields of mustard seed plants, with their bright yellow flowers, go untended. Few children play, in the vast shade of the banyan trees. Small as it now is, the population seems to turn out on every lane and road to shout, independence slogans as the Indian troops roll by.

Nevertheless, not every Bengali is overjoyed at the arrival of the Indian troops.

In Darsana, a town just inside East Pakistan from which the Pakistanis were ousted yesterday, an 18‐year‐ old guerrilla in the Bengali insurgent force, Mani Ruzzaman, said the Indian troops “have come to help us.” Then he added: “But I will not be happy if we do not take part in it and if we are not the ones to liberate Bangla Desh.”