SCENES AT FLOGGING PUNISHMENT. The English in Egypt.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 7

SCENES AT FLOGGING PUNISHMENT. The English in Egypt.

A " Daijw News" correspondent writes aa follows : - The particulars I telegraphed to you regarding the assault on British officers new the Ghizeh Pyramids were as nearly possiblo correct, but 1 omitted to say that besides the flogging avvaided, some of the prisoners wero heavily fined into the bargain* and that three sheikhs wero punished by fine and imprisonment. At three p.m. last* Thursday, two companies of the Welsh, to which the officers belonged, marched off to the villages of the prisoners, and were drawn up to witness the execution of the sentence. Buleigh Bey was present with native mounted police, and Captain Freeman with some of his English military police. These consist of men picked from different cavalryregiments. A fine, stalwart body they are, and admirably disciplined. Captain Riddle (GOth Rifle.s) was also thereon duty. He is attached to the police. The prisoners were tied to the typical triangle, and in front of the; villagers they received a pretty good castigation from the cat, laid on by stalwart British warders from the Ghizeh GaoL The old prisoners bore the infliction tolerably well, but the younger ones halloaed. The punishment of the cat, however, is nothing in comparison with that inflicted by the corbash. and this used to be laid on. the natives' backs and feet on every possible occasion. After a certain number had been flogged at one village, the troops, wai devs, and police moved to another, and here some other prisoners were flooged in the presence of the inhabitants. Colonel Tulloch, commanding the Welsh, then made a short speech, spying that the British were in Egypt to protect Europeans as natives, that they had shed their blood for the country, and were desirous to maintain. order. Therefore, if a similar outrage occurred the perpetrators would be punished in a much more severe manner than the piesenfc prisoners hud been. It must be icmarked, however, that the villagers aie often very hardly used by Europeans as regards their crops. No sooner does the shooting season commenoe — in fact, there is always something to shoot about Cairo all the year round — than a swarm of Creeks, Italians, French, Levantines, nondescripts of all blends, and Englishmen go forth and tread down. their crops. Again and again have the poor natives protested, But what can be dono ? The "Capitulations," as the3 r do in every and all occasions, step in. It is a crying shame. I heard to-day that some of the sheikhs of the villages have given out that on the first occasion of a European misconductinghimself v» hen on a shooting excursion they will have him hanged, without mercy, in retaliation for the punishment inflicted upon. the Arabs.