SHOCKING ATROCITIES,

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13993, 26 August 1909, Page 2

SHOCKING ATROCITIES,

PROTESTS AGAINST THE SULTAN OF MOROCCO. THE PRETENDER'S FOLLOWERS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (Received August 26, 8.5 a.m.)* '

LONDON, August 25. Tho British Consul at Fez has protested against Muli Hafid' 8 cruelties to the I'retender's followers. Mr. Brough, the Standard's correspondent at i< ez, reports that Muli Hafid ordered 'the right hand of each man ami woman to be cut off and the stump plunged into boiling pitch. Two important prisoners were ordered to loße their right hands, and right feet and have their teeth drawn. Another correspondent declares that one was ordered to have his lower 4 jaw shattered by a blow from a hammer; another t§ have his eyes gouged out ; a third to have the palm of one of his hands slashed, then salted and sewn up in a leather glove.

[Morocco is ruled by a Sultan. Muli Abdul Abus succeeded his father Mulai Hassan in 1894, a rising in favour of his elder brother, Mulai Mohamed, being suppressed. In 1907 Mulai Hafid, another brother of the Sultan, made great headway in the country and was proclaimed Sultan on August 25. In 1908 he was recognised by the Powers as the de facto Sultan, Mulai Abdul Aziz retiring.] - -' •