ANGOLA REBELS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29513, 15 May 1961, Page 11

ANGOLA REBELS

Attacks By Troops

(N.Z.P.A.-Retiter— Copyright) LISBON, May 14. Portuguese Air Force planes on Saturday went into action against rebels in northern Angola as large columns of armoured forces set out from Luanda for the rebel areas, the Portuguese news agency. A.N.1., reported. Planes destroyed a large building concealing more than 300 rebels in the Sanza Pombo area, the news agency said. The rebels were later attacked in the open. A native village near Sanza Pombo. where other rebels had taken refuge, was also “subjected to an Air Force mission.” The agency reported that the military columns left Luanda for the northern areas of Angola "to start wide-scale operations for the repression” of the rebel activities now that the rainy season has ended. The village of Mucaba. which resisted a mass onslaught by 5000 rebels on April 30. and several smaller attacks, repelled yet another attack on Friday, it was reported from Luanda. The rebels killed several men and injured several African women and an African soldier.

The Portuguese Lusitania news agency said the rebels committed “monstrous atrocities” against the women of several African families.