Delhi, July 15
Reports that the Indian Government intends to give foreign volunteers two weeks' notice to leave the refugee camps in West Bengal were denied by an official spokesman in Delhi today.

The spokesman said that neither the Foreign Ministry nor the Ministry for Rehabilitation was aware of the ruling, but he could not, explain how a senior official in charge of the refugee camps had called a press conference in Calcutta yesterday to announce that the central government intended to remove the volunteers.

Press reports this morning suggested that Colonel P. N. Luthra, who is coordinating rehabilitation work in West Bengal, had told journalists that the foreign volunteers and doctors were to be replaced by Indians within a fortnight.

The spokesman in Delhi said that he was not aware of the order. He explained that in some cases the government had been forced to provide security, interpreters and transport for the volunteers, and this had placed an additional strain on the administrative services.

Meanwhile the influential newspaper The Statesman which suggested that Britain was responsible for the world’s lack of concern over East Pakistan, is continuing to play down or ignore reports concerning British policy.

Briefed by senior government officials, the newspaper suggests several weeks ago that Britain was putting pressure on the Americans because it wanted to see India remain “weak”, Since then, with the exception of one short paragraph, the newspaper has ignored British policy statements and the government's decision to cut oi aid to Pakistan.

This morning The Statesman published on its front page a report from its correspondent in London which gave the impression that Britain had done nothing to put pressure on President Yahya Khan and that the British Government was in fact making every effort to improve relations with Pakistan.

Editors of other newspapers, who were told privately by Mrs Gandhi in May that Britain was responsible for the world’s inaction, has revised their policy in recent weeks and given prominence to Britain sympathetic attitude.