STEPPED UP IN ANGOLA
Intensified guerrilla warfare was the response of underground nationalists in Angola to a visit paid the long-suffering colony by Americo Tomaz, who bears the impressive title of "President of the Portuguese Republic." (Tomaz is in reality fascist dictator Salazar's secretary for "national" affairs. )
In a communiqué issued at. Léopolaville by the ANLA [yational 1 Liber= ation Army of Angola], the following actions in recent weeks are listed:
(1) At Camamba, on the highway between Luanda [capital of Angola]. and Carmona, six Portuguese soldiers were killed in a skirmish with an ANLA contingent. One Portuguese soldier was taken prisoner.
(2) In the Carmona region, near the town of Bessa Monteiro, heavy fighting occurred between ANLA forces and colonialist troops. Six Portuguese soldiers were killed.
(3) Between. Madimba and San Salvador, a truckload of Portuguese troops on the way to reinforce the garrison at San Salvador in prepara tion for the visit of President Tomaz hit an ANLA mine. All were killed.
(4) While Tomaz was at San Salvador addressing a crowd, a bomb exploded within a few yards of the Portuguese fascist leader.
(5) In the Bungo area, a Portuguese patrol, lost in the forest, stumbled on toanANLA encampment. The entire patrol was wiped out.
(6) In the Quibaxe area, fighting broke out for the first time since the end of 1961, Nine Portuguese soldiers were killed.
(7) In the Porto Rico region near Santo Antonio de Zatre, an ANLA detachment fought a pitched battle with militia organized by Portuguese settlers,
(8) In the Dembos area, a group of Angolese soldiers killed their officers and joined the ANLA, They brought along a good supply of arms and ammunition. In a subsequent battle with the reinforced ANLA group, fifteen Portuguese soldiers were killed,
(9) In the Cabinda district, the ANLA opened an offensive beginning at the Congo frontier. The aim is to extend operations throughout the district.
(10) Near the river Dande, the ANLA attacked a convoy of Portun guese troops. Eleven of them were killed.
According to the October 4 Tribune de Lausanne, a Swiss daily, two representatives of the Portuguese government recently made an unofficial inquiry at the Léopoldville headquarters of the Angolan National Liberation Front concerning terms for Portuguese "culture" and Portuguese settlers if Angola were grantea independence,
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Roberto Holden, president of the FLNA, was reported by the same source to have replied that independence and self-determination as well as agrarian reform, the withdrawal of Portuguese troops and the libera-~ tion of political prisoners had to be accepted as prerequisites to any negotiations.
THE ASTURIAN MINERS