AN ENRAGED SULTAN

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9599, 20 September 1909, Page 5

AN ENRAGED SULTAN

THE PRETENDER SHOT^ TORTURES IN MOROCCO. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received September 19, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, September 19. French advices from Fez state that Mulai Hafid was so enraged after receiving the British Consol's representations, concerning the tortures inflicted on followers of the Prttender brought to Fez. that he ordered the execution of Bu Hamara, the Pretender who was shot in the presence of the Imperial Harem. The correspondent ot the London "Standard" telegraphed that Muali Hafid has ordered the right hand of each man and woman brought from the Pretender's camp to he cut off, and the stumps plunged in boiling pitch. Two important prisoners were ordered to lose their right hands and their right feet and have their teeth drawn. Another correspondent de clares that one prisoner was ordered to have his lower jaw shattered by the blow of a hammer, another to have his eyes gouged out, and a third the palm of his hand slashed and then salted and sewn up in a leather glove. The Sultan of Morocco is in a parlous condition, according to the correspondents of English newspapers. Hence, perhaps, his cruelty, though it is typical of Turkish and Moroc.o methods of the past. In every quar ter of Morocco the opinion is growing that the existing, regime cannot last. In a short time it is said the Sultan will find himself practically without means to pay the troops, and it is not improbable that his undoubted unpopularity will then lead to another revolution.