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Show SPAiSIARMY ; MEETS REVERSE Home Papers Still Filled With Optimistic News Regarding Morocco LONDON, March 24. Discussing the bombardment of Alhucemas by the Moors :ind sinking of a Spanish steamer, steam-er, which Is treated as a serious setback set-back to the Spaniards, a dispatch to the London Times from Tangier. tdated Thursday. sas that with a blindness which Is pathetic the Span- llsh press In the last week has been filled with optimistic news with re- jgard to Morocco. DIFFIt I rfJItBS AHEAD I The correspondent questions wheth-er wheth-er the reporcusslon resulting from tho Alhucemas happenings will bs greater I in Spain or in Morocco "it in scarcely conceivable,'" the dis- , patch added, "thu Sain will sit down Under the Kiff success or postpone :tn immediate attnek on the tribes, but the Iconquest of this part of the Kiff region re-gion presents great difficulties The j Riffs are numerous and pomes considerable con-siderable cannon. They have en-I en-I trenched positions and hold hundred "t Bpanlah pri&onors." REVERSE INDICATED iXotc The foregoing dispatch in-dicate.s in-dicate.s that the Spaniards have Buffered Buf-fered B reverse In tho vicinity of Alhucemas, Al-hucemas, on tho northern c oast of Morocco, Mo-rocco, about CO miles we.st of Melllla Advices from Madrid, however, reported re-ported considerable activity in the region re-gion recently Minister of War Ola-guer Ola-guer in Madrid last Monday confirmed reports tha' ;-nerul Frederlco Bercn-guer Bercn-guer of the Spanish forces had been wounded and that tho Moroccan artillery artil-lery had bombarded Alhin mas Mn-I-;rid dispatches by way of London tho sumo day attributed to Senor '.doguer tho statement that the Spanish operations oper-ations had been suspended temporarily temporari-ly to allow preparations for further movements Tin- dispatch quoted the ;v:ir minister as admitting that the steamer .Juan de joined nw ths radio station at Alhucemas had been des-I des-I An official dispatch from ! Madrid dated Thursday said the Span- :lh batteries at Alhucemas had bom-i.anlid bom-i.anlid bands of fleeing tribesmen -nnl that the Spanish i rulser l.spana n'.x had shelled ihv enem. Tho state -n enl added thut. the Moorish guns ul- Itimately were silenced by the Alhuce- ' in ls batteries |