A MODERN NERO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 635, 12 October 1909, Page 5

A MODERN NERO.

BU HAMARA THROWN TO HUNGRY LIONS. A SULTAN'S PLEASURE, PRETENDER'S VAIN EFFORT TO CLIMB ,TO SAFETY. lUj Tclcerapli.- Press Anumilulnn -Onorrlchll London, October 10. The Fez correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that 'Bu Hamara, the Moorish Pretender, who was oaptured by tho Sultan's troops, wa3 not shot, as at -first reported, but was thrown, with his'feet chained, into a garden where there wero three starved lions. Bu Hamara .tried to climb a tree, /but a lioness tore off his left arm. Soldiers then stabbed him in tho breast a dozen times. Tho lions, returning, toyed with the body as cats with a mouse. Tho Sultin ;-and'his Court watched tho killing of tho victim from the windows of the palace. > J BRIBERY AND BASTINADO. Whilo tho Sultan, Mulai Hand, pursues a career of blood in apparent defiance of his enemie3 within Morocco and of tho Christian Powers without, most correspondents agreo in declaring that hia power totters. In every quarter of Morocco tho opinion is growing that tho existing regime cannot last. In a short time, it is eaid, tho Sultan will find aimsolf practically without means to pay tho troops, and it Iβ 1 net Improbable that his undoubted unpopularity .yiM then lead io another revolution. "It is often little incidents of no importance," writes tho Morocco correspondent of "Tho Times," ''whioh give the clearest insight into Moroccan affairs. So economical is tho Sultan in tho salaries ho poys-or generally does not pay—to th 6 palace Attendants that on leaving the" palace, after audience- with his Majesty one is nearly torn to pieces oy palaco officials, whose clutches one can only oscapo at' very considerable- expense. So scandalous had things become that I was obliged to: complain, ■ and; (i. large number or tho most' guilty were - bastinadood (struck on the soles of thflfeef with.ft Btick). On leaving the palace , :on {he following day I was sot upon by a new. crowd,/who vociferously .demanded payment for having been omployed to,administer the bastinado to tho others. ■ I complained. I am ,: just leaving Fez; 'and.my house.is beset by-palaco attendant*, who, are clamouring for rewards for- having .bastinAdoed men who had demanded money for- having bastinadoed . tho first lot. -This littlo incident is typical of the whole -Moorish ..Government."