lVYTimes THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, ".7F Refugees Rep L,A.aos in North NYTimes JAN 3 0 1976 5 CONGO 4 .o -,,, --, By HENRY KAMM 0 M iles 200 Special to The New York Times .,,..:,,,CAqINDA 0` -`,„ 'N- O , e ifi inf.; ha sa KINSHASA, Zaire, Jan. 29— Portuguese • settlers fleeing to i Santo Antonio do Zaire 1 this city report chaotic condi- tions and a mass exodus from • .11Nia,L a small corner of northwestern- e:1;Ir Sao Salvador most Angola that remains in the hands of the Western-sup- • ported National Front for the Tomboco Liberation of 'Angola. • The Portuguese settlers arriv- ing here are mostly small farm ANGOLA • - ;pa Teixeira ers who did not join the mass ' de Sousa flight before Angola gained its independence from Portugal last November because they Alto Hama 3 --"A-eLuso hoped that the. National Front Silva ps tro would protect their farms. Nal,v they are destitute and bit- ter. More than 1,600 of them have reached Kinshasa this ljT4. • month and are being repatriated Sa da Bandeira • • • Serpa Pinto to Portugal. 0 According to their reports, r G ,c 5 , which are given credence in 0) informed diplomatic circles; the offensive by the, combined forces of Cubans and the Pop- ular Movement for the Libera- SOUTH-WEST AFRICA tion of Angola in the last four weeks brought about the com- plete collapse of the defending The New York TimestJan. 30,1976 forces. Refugees from towns with names in panels said their These forces consist of the populations fled both defenders and attackers. National Front, units of Zaire'sj Army, Portuguese settlers and retreat of the defenders was steal their belongings. a small number of mercenaries. accompanied, according to the Large-scale pillaging was re- A few Aniericans, presumably refugees here, by widespread working for the Central Intelli- looting. The Zaire Army units ported also from Si° Salvador, gence Agency, were refiably re- were said to have been the most the principal town still in the ported to have been in the active element in the looting. National Front's control, until region, but it is not known The principal town of northern the recent arrival of about 30 whether they still are. Angola, the coffee - plantation Portuguese and mercenary sol- diers restored some discipline Urgent Appeals Sent center of Uige, was re- parted to have been thoroughly among the defenders. Meanwhile, urgent appeals sacked before being abandoned The recent influx of Portu- from the leader of the forces without a fight early this month. guese and mercenaries, report- defending southern Angola While few cars, electrical ap- edly recruited in Portugal, is, against the Popular Movement's pliances, household possessions said to have contributed to an advance were delivered to all or other valuables remained in apparent stabilization of the Western embassies here today. Uige and other abandoned situation. No important ad- In the letters, the leader, Jonas towns, informed sources report vances by the Popular Front M. Savimbi, urged the United that sizable quantities of mili- have been reported since its States, Britain, France and other tary supplies and equipment capture of Ambrizete about powers to rush arms to the were left behind. two weeks ago. forces of the National Union In the days after the fall of The refugees referred to the for the Total Independence of Uige and the advance of the mercenaries as "the English," Angola before it is• too late. The Soviet-backed forces along the which is believed to be more National Union is allied with coast past the town of Am- an allusion to their common the National Front against the brizete, the retreating troops language than to their nation- Soviet-supported Popular Move- reportedly pillaged the towns ality. They refer to the pil- ment. to which they withdrew and laging troops as "the Lingala." In an intrview, Ruben Chita- that they are still holding. This is to distinguish the Zair- cumbi, representative of the Refugees report that these ean soldiers, whose language is National Union in Kinshasa, towns—Santo Ant6nio do Zaire, Lingala, from the troops of the' described the situation on the Sao Salvador, TombOco and Ma- Angolan National Front, who southern front as "very, very do Zombo—have been speak Kikongo. grave." completely sacked and that But he denied reports by the their populations have fled, No Fighting Reported Popular Movement in from the defenders as much as LUSAKA, Zambia, Jan. 29 that its troops had taken sev- from the attackers. (AP) — Officials here of Na- eral key towns and were in The refugees report that in tional Union for the Total Inde- position to strike at , Maquela do Zomba, close to pendence of Angola reported the capital •of the National the border of Zaire, Zairean Union-National Front coalition, today that there had been no troops staged a mock attack, significant fighting on the and, the port cities of , pretending to be forces of the front with Soviet-backed forces and : Popular Movement, in order to In the northwest the hasty in the Angolan civil war for drive out the population and the fourth straight day.