Ethiopian Losses
MOGADISHU (Somalia), February 11
Fifty more Ethiopian soldiers were killed in border fighting around Bioculel and Fiambiro, Somalia Government officials claimed today. One was a white man of unknown nationality.
Earlier reports said that 350 Ethiopians died in a battle near Tug Wajaleh, where Somalia last night claimed to have repulsed Ethiopian forces.
Fighting began last Friday at Tug Wajaleh in the disputed frontier region. Somalia, independent since 1960, has claims on border
sections of neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya. The claims have been rejected. Unofficial reports said a white pilot was flying for Ethiopia and that many whites were seen in the ranks of Ethiopian ground forces. The Somali Government said more than 1000 youths in Mogadishu had volunteered for the army in response to Government appeals. A Somali delegation was ready to go to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, today to talk to the Organisation for African Unity foreign ministers’ conference about the fighting.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30364, 13 February 1964, Page 5
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