for the Portuguese to go by car from one post to another, the roads
and the bridges having been destroyed or sabotaged by our militants.
There are still Portuguese in these areas; only, their capacity
for action, their freedom of movement has been extremely curtailed.
For example, when the Portuguese colonialists have to travel by •
car, they put the African employees in the front seats and .hide
themselves in the back seats; they expect that, seeing only Africans,
our militants will abstain from attacking the car.  Every evening-
whole Por tuguese families go in procession to the nearest military
post, where they sleep under the protection of Portuguese soldiers.
Only next morning do they return to their houses, to their shops,
to their occupations.  On the other hand, as the African population
live in the forests, the Portuguese are deprived of the manual
labour necessary to the repair and construction of roads and bridges,
to the cultivation of the crops.  All the colonialist economic
structures have begun to founder for the lack of the element on
which they are based: forced labour.
By May of this year our armed struggle had become solidly structured
through the co-ordination and the frequency of our attacks, and the
capture of important war-material from the enemy, but it was in
July that O'jrv victories multiplied.  The Portuguese authorities
themselves recognised this, in a declaration they made to the New
York Herald Tribune. ; . . • ■•.. •■
However, not everything is easy in our revolution.  There are weak
points.  Our inexperience in the struggle against Pide led to the
arrest of several political and military leaders.  On the other,
hand, preoccupied with the military and political action, we did
not pay enough attention to other aspects equally important.  For"
example, we still were not able to establish an efficient administrative organisation in the half-liberated regions.  We still had not
created our own judicial system to substitute for the colonialist
one.  Medical assistance for the population, for which we are
responsible, is not satisfactory, .• -   •"•'.'
But all the people understand our difficulties.  Our people understand
that, to destroy a colonialist structure of centuries and to   : -,:
substitute for it a socialist structure adequate to the needs of
the people, is not an easy task and cannot be done in a short time.
This is the actual situation in Mozambique.   For how much longer will
the struggle last? For how long will we have to fight, until we
get our independence?  We do not know.  One thing is certains  we
shall fight until the end;  we shall never turn back.  Objectively,'
the successes we have reached in our last attacks, the high morale
of our militants, the absolute support of the people make us fore-
■:-:     see our victory as being not far off.  Especially if we consider
that the morale of the enemy is extremely low, as is proved by the