ABYSSINIA: 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....

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