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About twenty Portuguese soldiers were killed*
The next day soldiers from the post of MUIDUMBE came to
collect the survivors. However, they were observed by our
fighters who mined the road ahead of them, killing three
and wounding five.
The enemy is aware that during the rainy season FRELIMO steps
up its military activities. Consequently, they increase their
efforts to counteract this by destroying any potential sites.
This often entails improving and widening roads and cutting
dov/n the bush along the roadside. On one occasion they
started work on the road from MUIDUMBE to NANGOLOLO. When
v/e were informed of this, one of our platoons organised an
ambush at a place called NAMANJ1L0, about five kilometers
from NANGOLOLOo At 9.00 o'clock on the morning of 25 January a convoy of three vehicles and one caterpillar approached our positions. They stopped a short distance away and
a lieutenant, presumably some kind of a surveyor, climbed
down from his "jeep" to measure the road. When he had done
this he returned to the "jeep" and stood talking to the driver.
Our platoon commander ordered the attack and the jeep was
instantly destroyed by bazooka fire, and the lieutenant along
with it. We then turned to the rest of the convoy, destroying
one large lorry and damaging the two other vehicles0
In an attempt to exert control over the zone of NTANDOLA the
enemy have been devoting a great deal of activity to improving the communications between the various posts and camps.
In the region of MACOTI, for example, they built a bridge
across the river NGUNUNGU (which has already been destroyed
by our forces). Our fighters decided to put a halt to
enemy activity in that zone and launched a large-scale attack
against the camp of NTANDOLA on 30 January 1969© The' first
canon shell shot through a row of tents and ended up in
a group of parked vehicles, setting them on fire. After
intensive mortar and cannon fire the whole camp was destroyed.
During their retreat, our guerrillas destroyed two bridges
that had only recently been completed on the road between
the camp and MUIDUMBE.
NIASSA.
Two of the most important actions of our guerrillas in January
were the destruction of a train and an attack on a large military camps
The railway line from CATUR to NOVA GUARDA, in the zone of
LUPALANI runs beside a road in flat open countryside. Our
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| Title | CENPA-034~23 |
| Filename | CENPA-034~23.tiff |
| Full text | About twenty Portuguese soldiers were killed* The next day soldiers from the post of MUIDUMBE came to collect the survivors. However, they were observed by our fighters who mined the road ahead of them, killing three and wounding five. The enemy is aware that during the rainy season FRELIMO steps up its military activities. Consequently, they increase their efforts to counteract this by destroying any potential sites. This often entails improving and widening roads and cutting dov/n the bush along the roadside. On one occasion they started work on the road from MUIDUMBE to NANGOLOLO. When v/e were informed of this, one of our platoons organised an ambush at a place called NAMANJ1L0, about five kilometers from NANGOLOLOo At 9.00 o'clock on the morning of 25 January a convoy of three vehicles and one caterpillar approached our positions. They stopped a short distance away and a lieutenant, presumably some kind of a surveyor, climbed down from his "jeep" to measure the road. When he had done this he returned to the "jeep" and stood talking to the driver. Our platoon commander ordered the attack and the jeep was instantly destroyed by bazooka fire, and the lieutenant along with it. We then turned to the rest of the convoy, destroying one large lorry and damaging the two other vehicles0 In an attempt to exert control over the zone of NTANDOLA the enemy have been devoting a great deal of activity to improving the communications between the various posts and camps. In the region of MACOTI, for example, they built a bridge across the river NGUNUNGU (which has already been destroyed by our forces). Our fighters decided to put a halt to enemy activity in that zone and launched a large-scale attack against the camp of NTANDOLA on 30 January 1969© The' first canon shell shot through a row of tents and ended up in a group of parked vehicles, setting them on fire. After intensive mortar and cannon fire the whole camp was destroyed. During their retreat, our guerrillas destroyed two bridges that had only recently been completed on the road between the camp and MUIDUMBE. NIASSA. Two of the most important actions of our guerrillas in January were the destruction of a train and an attack on a large military camps The railway line from CATUR to NOVA GUARDA, in the zone of LUPALANI runs beside a road in flat open countryside. Our -21- |
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