From Our Correspondent
Delhi, Sept 12
India is believed to have expressed its inability to prevent the guerrilla fighters from “interfering” in the distribution of food in famine-threatened East Bengal or from “harming” the volunteers who may be engaged in this operation

The question was first raised by the United Nations Secretariat and then by the United States State Department. Both are apparently thinking about the measures to stave off famine in East Bengal.

From all accounts food stocks in the area are diminishing, and after the rainy season there is no crop of any significance.

The Indian Government has said that international agencies and foreign powers will have to communicate with the elected representatives of East Bengal (meaning the Awami League leaders) because it is they who can offer guarantees and honour them The Indian Government has also given a warning that the food distributed through the Pakistan Government will fall into the hands of the military authorities and make them still more intransigent and brutal.

One suggestion by Delhi is that a consortium of voluntary organizations could probably distribute food. Whether the United Nations, or the United States would ultimately decide to bypass Islamabad is not known, but it is apparent that it will be almost impossible io distribute food in East Bengal without the concurrence of the guerrilla fighters.