INHUMAN CRUELTIES MULAI HAFID'S REVENGE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 25

INHUMAN CRUELTIES MULAI HAFID'S REVENGE.

■ " ' - LONDON, August 25. The British Consul" at Fez has protested ! against the Sultaai ,Mulai - Hafid's cruelties to the .Pretender's followers who have been "brought to Fez.*""*" . _ j The Standard's correspondent reports t that Mulai Hand ordered the right hand of each main and woman to be cut off and Vthe, stvaapi to "be plunged in boiling pfych. Two important prisoners wene ordered ' to lose their right Jiands and right f eef, and to have their fteeth drawn, j Another- correspondent declares that one '," prisoner was to ■ have his Mower •jaw" shattered, with the blow of a hammer, , another to have his eyes gouged out, a<nd , a third the palm of his hand slashed and , then salted and sewn up in a leather S glove. MOROCCO, August 26. The French Consul at Fez has strongly remonstrated with the Sultan in connection, with the atrocities. Diplomatists af Tangier are* considering the advisability of "making a collective protest. I M.< Piohon has instrutoed M. Regnault : . (French-. Minister in Morocco) to- support the protest. Renter's Tangier correspondent reports that *Bu-hamara, the Pretender, has been captured in a mosque in Benimssra by the tribesmen in the country, and is now being conducted in chains to Fez. August 28. Buhamaira, the Pretender, in an iron : cage, which was carried on a camel's back, , entered Fez amid the jeers of the populace. He boldly insulted the crowd in 1 return. The * ca.g© was deposited in the Palace courtyard, where the Suit am interviewed the prisoner through the ba,rs. Buihajhara declined to speak unless he was given new clothes and permitted to rest. J His request was granted.