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...landing in Alhucemas Bay, any military expert will tell you is the biggest success yet attained in the Riff War, and it should be properly accredited...
TIME'S action in tabulating the great victory at Alhucemas Bay under FRANCE instead of under SPAIN was indeed unfair. Heretofore it has appeared to the editors to be efficient to list all the activities in the Riff under a single nation head. Henceforth, in deference to Subscriber Piro, SPAIN and FRANCE shall share the listings...
Astute observers then went quietly away and reflected that Spain, after having poured out millions of pesetas during a desultory struggle with 25,000 Riffians which has lasted seven years, is now celebrating the capture of an insignificant village, the so-called capital of Riff-land. Belgians, Serbians and Rumanians, they pointed out, found it quite possible to do a deal of heavy fighting after Brussels, Belgrade and Bucharest had fallen to the Central Powers. Abd-el-Krim is still at large. And the Spanish attack of last week, crowned by the fall of his "capital" though it be, represents...
Concurrently with Spain's spectacular nibbling at the Riff from the north, the French forces under Marshal Petain made an advance, near Kifane on the southern war front, into virgin sloughs of Riffland never before occupied by Europeans. It was announced that last week's French offensive had gained all its objectives in record time. Then French officers discovered that their airmen, who had hastily made for them the only available maps, had mapped too optimistically. The French lines, when exactly plotted, proved to be a couple of miles short of the advance that had been claimed...
...whole character of the Moroccan war is one of high lights and shadows, corresponding to this last most picturesque of incidents. The daily press dispatches from the Riff should never bore anyone. The American soldiers of fortune with the French forces ignore the state departments' august disapproval and proceed to the day's fighting like bad boys playing truant. Unreasonable obstinacy displayed by the Riffians in refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher...