MPLA CABFOR - Order 227

And the time for retreating is over.  NOT ONE STEP BACK! That must now be our watchword.

Can we take the blows of the enemy and push them back to the East?  Yes, because our international Comrades are sending us ever more aircraft, tanks, artillery and missiles.

Is there something we lack?  We lack order and discipline, that is our main shortcoming.  We must establish the strictest order and iron discipline in our army if we want to defend our Motherland.  Panickers and cowards will be eliminated on the spot.  Commanders of companies and battalions will be considered traitors to the Motherland if they retreat.

Comrade Agostinho Neto
September 21st 03.35hrs

Pravda – Moscow Monday 15th September 1975

Congratulations to the brave defenders of the communist ideals in Amriz, against mercenaries, financed by the CIA and illegally supported by Zaire, who attempted to take over the town and its associated port.   Your intrepid man in the field Comrade Pavel Tarasov can confirm that the courageous airmen from Luanda, in their awesome MIG -17’s helped their boys on the ground by destroying the pathetic FNLA attempts to bomb the town into submission.

How desperate are the capitalists as yesterday they had their lacky Pope Paul VI declare a US citizen, Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton a saint, this will not confuse the people of Angola who will not be fooled by attempts  to claim that Christians should support their actions to continue to enslave the people of the country.

STOP

Havana Herald Tuesday 9th September

Fall of Pereira de Eca

Before it is even possible to report the fall of Benguela,  the glorious heroes of Mocamedes advance to liberate the border with South West Africa!

Only the briefest pause can be allowed to see whether the apartheid regime of the Afrikaans has the courage to embrace apostasy before international socialism pushes on to Capetown by force of arms!

Havana Herald Friday 5th September

Fall of Benguela

Reports today confirm that the coast of Angola is now free and socialist from the Namibian border to Ambriz.  The last few revanchist dogs in Ambrizete will soon be back in Zaire and the Atlantic Ocean free from the taint of the Great Satan!

London Times Monday 1st September 1975

The Rt Hon member for Finchley Margaret Thatcher (49), demanded that the Royal Navy increase its commitment to policing the waters off Angola after at least five Russian freighters have been reported as landing equipment in Luanda in late August that was declared as agricultural equipment.  The Hon lady commented that witnesses had seen artillery, armored cars and aircraft being unloaded from the Russian ships and these were clearly not for use other than on the fields of conflict.

The Minister for Defense Rt Hon member for Barnsley, Roy Mason (51), said

Ambassador Lunkov of the Soviet Union had assured him that there was no military equipment in the humanitarian support that his comrades were supplying to the sadly starving oppressed people of Angola and yet again the Hon Lady for Finchley was seeing “reds in the bed” when the truth was clearly a positive action by a fellow socialist government.

Havana Herald Sunday 31 August 1975

The editor has been overwhelmed by the demand of the people of Angola to register their deepest thanks for August's expression of solidarity by the People of China.  Following on from July's assurance by the People of Bulgaria that the anti-imperialist struggle remains close to their hearts, the international expression of socialist sympathy grows.  The western fascists mere military hardware cannot begin to compensate for such expressions of ideological purity and support.

The Jamaica Daily Gleaner, 30 August 1975

The Gleaner notes the declaration by the mercenary South African captain of English cricket, Tony Greig, that: "If they get on top, these MPLA fellas, they are magnificent Guerillas, but if they are down they grovel - and UNITA, with the help of the FNLA, will make them grovel.". 

A long, hot, bumpy summer is anticipated.

Johannesberg Journal 29 August 1975

The FNLA army has been fighting Communist rebels in the central port of Benguela after a suicide bomber attempted to attack an army checkpoint.

The bomber was killed before he could detonate his bomb on Tuesday evening. This was followed by militant attempts to infiltrate the city.

The army, possibly backed by UNITA air power, then moved against the Communists.

"The fighting is heavy and it is ongoing," FNLA army Capt Modibo Naman Traore told the Reuters news agency, adding that the army was in the process of "encircling" the militants.

At least one FNLA soldier and two civilians were wounded in Tuesday's fighting according to the city's mayor.

But the number of casualties following Wednesday's fighting remains unknown. At least one Russian made armoured car with FAPLA markings could be seen burning in the nothern outskirts of the city on Thursday.

The situation in Benguela remains tense, reports the Journal’s roving correspondent Roderick Sham from Nova Lisboa.