Cause for Bombing

Still common in the Empire of Abyssinia is human slavery. Every now & then bold subjects of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie stage a slave raid into adjoining territory. Last week they raided Britain's Kenya Colony, carried off a fine herd of Kenya women & girls into slavery, left 150 Kenya men dead in their villages.

News of this outrage reached London only a few days after the use of bombing planes had been denounced as "horrible"' in the House of Commons by kind-hearted Leader Stanley Baldwin of the ruling Conservative Party. On top of such a speech, His Majesty's Government could scarcely threaten, in writing, to bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this year by Abyssinian slave raiders.

Britain's problem was solved by ordering the British Minister at Addis Ababa to tell Emperor Haile Selassie orally what may happen if His Majesty is unwilling or unable to stop slave raiding into Kenya. To prepare the British public for what may happen, loyal London papers called bombing "the only cheap and effective method of pursuing the marauders," declared that against natives "one bomber is worth 35,000 troops."

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