El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-08
SINKING THE TRANSPORT LENGTFIENS
THE SCORE GERMANY MUST SETTLE

HE torpedofng Of the British transport Tuscania with
217s American troops board, Of whom $50 to zoe
= net their death shocks the whole American people
i the first military disaster since went into the
i smites rs nothing else has done It is blow at the
heart Il lengthens the bloody the German empire
VII have 20 settle with the United States and In blood
Germany wiz pay that score.
The first Of the tragedy sent fear cutching at the
hearts Of thousands Of Americans They had sons brothers,
husbands or friends in the army and they might be
this ship Being this ship they might have met death
u the icy off the bleak coast Of Ireland Few know
what ship their loved sail exactly when This
then smote all those whose relatives really were on
transport and thousands of others who feared theirs
might BE- How anxiety bit into their very souls And
much greater the grief Of those for whom doubt
EXISTS who know their soldier loved have found their
graves IN tie stormy sea
There Is something more tragic about death under such
circumstances these than death on the battlefield
These soldiers enlisted to take their part in the They
half expected to be killed They expected however to have
chance for their lives TO die in the give and take Of
and to have opportunity to save themselves in mortal
combat Instead they perish without chance, their snip
unexpectedly topedoed themselves without opportunity
70 strike blow IN their defence When sailors die,
they the death they expect their element in
she way they.st least half expect
II var on land soldiers die and buried Their rela
do not have quite the FEELING Of utter loss which
comes when bodies lost in the deep. However much
nay cling to the spiritual conception Of life we can
get away completely from the material part of it.
This tragedy IS which our people have been expect
Ing because they knew in the extraordinary Of ruth
less submarine warfare very apt to happen Canada
transported quarter Of million men TO France without
losing the BY Uboat attack, but It was al
most too much to hope that could take all our men
across with the same good fortune It must not be
looked that at least many probably many more AeT
than Canadian troops had been taken over the Atlantic
safely before this torpedoing occurred
If there be any Qualification IN event OF this kind
is because 50 nearly all Of the troops board the trans
port were saved It speaks volumes for preparedness on
cupboard also for the cool steady nerves of all COZ
cerned There little panic There was no hysteria
for z few minutes. There was nothing but good
American courage and steady application to the task OF
saving every life possible to There viii be no Juoia
fion II Berlin that so nearly all the Americans were res
cued Prem the German viewpoint, the accomplishment
Of the Uboat would been tremendously more laudabe
had the whole regiment been drowned
The transport vent down IN region which mas become
the Graveyard Of ships The Lustana diwn very
Far away and Of scores Of other ships that once sailed the
seas the covered huks toss on the ocean
fIoor IN that vicinity Submarines lie in wait In that
region IN ambush among the waves awaiting the coming
Of their prey hoping to dodge the conveying desroyers
and launch successfully their death missiles.
TINS NAV not be the last military losses by sub
marines Others may be serious or less Our people
VII most earnestly hope there may be no more ana they