Moroccan Atrocities.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 4182, 27 August 1909, Page 3

Moroccan Atrocities.

London, August 26. The British Consul at Fez has protested against the cruelties inflicted in Fez upon the captured followers of the pretender to the throne by the new Sultan, Mulai Hafid. The Standard's correspondent reports that Mulai Hafid 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 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 9.30 p.m., 26th. Morocco, August 26. The representatives of the French Consul at Fez strongly remonstrated with the Sultan regarding the atrocities at Fez. Diplomatists at Tangiers are considering the advisability of a collective protest and M. Pichon has instructed M. Regnault, the French Minister for 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. I