From Our Correspondent Calcutta, April 28
India has firmly rejected a Pakistan proposal that Indian diplomats in Dacca be flown to Nepal. Staff of the Pakistan mission in Calcutta—who sympathized with the Bangla Desh rebels—were earlier allowed to fly direct to Karachi.

An Indian Government official also said Delhi could not understand the further Pakistan suggestion that the Indian Government place the properties and archives of its mission in Calcutta under jurisdiction of the Pakistan High Commissioner. The premises of the former Pakistan deputy high commission were occupied by persons appointed by the Pakistan Government, and Delhi did not figure in the matter at all.

Official sources denied Pakistani allegations of maltreatment of the former deputy high commissioner Mr. Mehdi Masud. He had been provided with proper accommodation, full protection and all facilities to communicate with his superiors in Delhi. This contrasted with the treatment meted out to the Indian staff in Dacca.

The Pakistan High Commissioner has rejected "on the spot" India’s protest note alleging the virtual internment of Indian personnel in Dacca. But he lodged a "strong oral protest" with the Indian External Affairs Ministry against what he called the "harassment" caused to Mr. Mehdi Masud.

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Our Calcutta Correspondent writes:
Indian security measures near the East Bengal border were tightened today after the reported attacks by West Pakistan troops on several villages on the Indian side of the border yesterday. Thirty Indian villagers are said to have been killed in the attacks.

Indian security form at the bender returned fire but it is not known whether the Pakistan troops suffered any casualties.

According to Indian sources, five people, including three women. were killed when a Pakistan Army platoon attacked an Indian village near Bongaon. At least 25 people are reported to have been killed when the Pakistanis fired on an Indian enclave on the East Bengal border near Cooch Behar.

Although Indian Army positions near the border are believed to have been reinforced, the authorities here maintain that Indian troops are observing the rule agreed upon many years ago, which requires the armed forces of the two countries to remain at least three miles away from the border.

Authoritative sources do not believe that Pakistan is interested in provoking an armed conflict with India in the eastern region. They are inclined to regard the border incidents as part of Pakistan's diversionary tactics to confuse public opinion about the nature of West Pakistan's conflict with East Bengal.

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Delhi, April 28.—India warned Pakistan tonight of dangerous consequences if its troops continued to intrude into Indian territory and fire across the border from East Pakistan.

In Notes to the Pakistan High Commission India alleged that in five separate incidents in the past 48 hours at least eight Indians had been killed and 33 injured.

The official spokesman of the Pakistan High Commission said today that all contact had been lost with members of its Deputy High Commission in Calcutta

He said that there had been no contact with Mr. Mahdi Masud since 11.30 G.M.T. on Monday — five hours after the mission was closed at Pakistan’s request. — Reuter