Mogadishu Domestic Service radio (in Somali) 1015 GMT

The Eritrean National Liberation Front has reported heavy fighting between Eritrean nationalists and the imperialist Habashi (Abyssinian) army, following an airborne attack by the Amhara’s on the (Makhlak?) region. The nationalists confronted the troops and gained the upper hand after fighting them bravely.

The Amhara troops lost 206 dead, and the nationalists only 21. The Eritrean nationalists also captured heavy arms.

According to another report, an Amhara police post at (Karai?) was attacked by the Eritrean nationalists who took everything the Amhara’s kept there, as well as killing them with their own hands.

In the (Darka?) region, where for two years the Eritreans refused to pay taxes to the Amharas and instead handed over the tax money to the Eritrean freedom fighters, the Amharas, on learning of the siutation there, dispatched eight truckloads of troops in an attempt to coerce the Eritrean people to resume paying their taxes to the Amhara monarchy.

But when the Eritrean nationalists fighting for Eritrean liberation learned that the Amhara’s had sent troops there, they sent a stronger force which managed to capture them. All their equipment and the troops themselves, according to the announcement from the Eritrean Liberation Front whose headquarters is in Mogadishu, are now being held there.

_{FBIS-FRB-65-193, 6 Oct. 1965, p. I3}