FLOGGING JEWESSES IN MOROCCO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1106, 17 May 1883, Page 1

FLOGGING JEWESSES IN MOROCCO.

Some particulars regarding the reported flogging of Jewesse° in Morocco have lately reached England. The story is probably as disgusting and disgraceful as it well could be, even in Morocco. It appsars that one Joseph Amiel—a Jew, and an officer of the English Vice-Con-sulate at C'asablance —has two sons, whose dissipated habits provoked, on a recent occasion, more than ordinarily angry remonstrance from their father. The young men, aroused by the expostulations, and probably threats, in which their excited parent indulged, drew their pistols upon him and attempted his life. The bullets missed their mark, and the would-be parricides were immediately arrested and dragged before the local Basha in order to receive the punishment they so richly deserved. At the instance of their father they received each some six hundred applications of the bastinado Had Amiel stopped here all would have been well. The bastinado is not a form, of punishment which commends itself to English feelings, but where-as in Morocco—it is a recognised form of punishment, ft could not be much better applied than it was in this instance, Amiel was, however, not satisfied. Presuming, evidently on his position in connection with the British Vice-Consulate, he insisted on the arrest of eight Jewish women, to whose alleged temptations he ascribed all his son's evil habits. The Basha submissively obeyed the beheßts of the British official. The women were dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, and thrown into prison, l'he next morning, still in pursuance of Amiel's instructions, they were led out into some public place, and there flogged with revolting barbarity. The details given by the correspondent of the Jewish World are sufficiently horrible ; lut we may state (adds the European Mail) that private letters received give still more harrowing accounns. How unmerciful must have been the flogging is shown by one shocking circumstance—when the women were carried back to prison, one had already become a hopeless maniac.