MOROCCAN HORRORS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14150, 27 August 1909, Page 5

MOROCCAN HORRORS.

THE SULTAN'S CRUELTY. TORTURE AND MUTILATION. PROTESTS BY THE POWERS. By Telegraph.—-Press Association.—Copyright. London, August 25. The British Consul at Fez has protested against the cruelties inflicted in Fes* upon the captured followers of the Pretender to the throne by the new Sultan, Mulai Hand. The Standard's correspondent reports that Mulai Hand ordered the right hand of each man and woman to be cut off, and the stumps plunged in boiling pitch. Two important prisoners were ordered to lose their right hands and right feet,, and had their teeth drawn. Another correspondent declares that one prisoner was ordered to have his lower jaw shattered by a blow from a hammer, another his eyes gouged out, a third the palm of his hand slashed, and then salted and sewn up in a leather glove. (Received August 26, 11.30 p.m.) Morocco, August 26. The French Consul at Fez has strongly remonstrated with the Sultan on the atrocities he has allowed to be perpetrated. Diplomatists at Tangier are considering the* advisability of a collective protest. M. Pichon (French Foreign Minister) has instructed M. Regnault, the French Minister at Morocco, to support the protest. Reuter's Tangier correspondent reports that Buhamara, the Pretender, has been captured in a mosque in the Benimssra tribesmen's country, and is now being conducted in chains to Fez. Mulai Hafid, who was proclaimed Sultan of Morocco at the end of last year, is the half-brother of tho deposed Sultan, Abdul Aziz. Mulai Hafid is the elder, and his mother was a Moorish lady, but the mother of Abdul Aziz, a Circassian lady, was the favourite, and her sou therefore succeeded to the throne. He was on good terms with the Europeans in Marrakesh, and after the assassination of Dr. Mauchamp, showed energy in restoring order. He is 35 yeans of age, has a great reputation among the Moors (for orthodoxy and learning, and is looked up to as an authority on religious questions.