Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — Flogging In the British Navy. [ARTICLE]

Flogging In the British Navy.

now that the barbarous practice of flogging has been abolished as a method of punishment in the English arthy and navy, and that the cat-o’-nine-4a4ls was altogether an obsolete institution.- That this Idea is without foundation is shown by the report of the terrible flogging to which a seaman was subjected recently on board the British man-of-war Penelope by order of her captain. The cruiser in question is stationed at Cape Town, and news of the flogging has just been received in London. Moreover, recent official returns go to show, that to the military prisons of the United Kingdom there are an average of at least two floggings a week throughout the entire year. Russia, which has an infinitely greater reputation for barbarity than England, has recently not only prohibited flogging by the Government and provincial authorities as a means of punishment, but bos also deprived the village elders and the leaders of the peasant communities from inflicting corporal punishment upon refractory fellow-members.