Show WILL TAKE OFFENSIVE Aug Aub Marinas o of the tho Spanish forces said that ho he planned to assume the offensive wIthin ten days It Is ol that lie ho feels keenly his responsibility knowing that far ar more de 10 depends upon the next movement than the actual success or failure o of the operations against the Moors rho fhe events of the tho next few weeks will settle the fate of the ilie d dynasty Nothing Is left leU to chance When Tarina moves moes lie he will be at atthe the bond or of a force so strong that the themus Rifts mus cannot uy by nn any possible means win l a victory In the open Melilla and the railway have been con converted v Into a veritable fortress anti and It would require an arm arni wIth a siege train and modern ordnance to capture these points point Everything now turns on the lie construction of the ca canal canal nal to Marchica If this falls aBs the tho task of the SpanIards will bo be greater as asal asal al the sup lilies must be brought by byland byland land subject to attacks by the Moors SInce the earthquake or of 1894 closed the exit to the lie sea the water ivator at Mar Mai chica has evaporated and receded By reopening the tho channel the Spaniards hope to raise It to tho ho former level lovel making it Il navIgable lot fOI troops The rhe success or of this will enable General Marina to food feed the tho army armr Many feel that n a little more dash to tile tha would hue have been ad but the tho memory of Pintos reverse appears to have sunk deep deop Into lh generals mind The tact fact that no attempt to d dis Is hedge the tho enemy Is permItted has re suIted in more darIng tactics on the part of the Moors each day which might all bo be chocked If the Span In ds sent out a few Cew sharpshooters There Thero is n a strange fear of Sonic BOnIe lurk lurkIng lug Ing trail like that lint Into which General PInto fell I Madrid Aug today toda from Potion de In Gomera on the coast COUL of Morocco lorocco say lay the tho Moors continued firing yesterday on the Spanish garrison Whon hon the lie trans transport transport port Tobo Tebo arrived at t to today ay a han bail of bullets tell cli gar rion aria and In the h harbor Thore Thoe were Spun Ish casualties I n thousand addItional soldiers soldIer are aro TeDdy ready t for r service on Morocco General Weyler at one ODo time gover oer ot of Cuba said toda today that he would like to go to dellila anti and take or of the tho Spanish expeditIon on 1 |