Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-08
LATEST OFFICIALS AoVcEs.
CRy Reviev Leased wirel

WASHINGTON Feb. Latest of. ficial advices to the war department tonight accounted for all except 11S of the 2,156 American soldiers who were on board the British liner Tus- cania when a submarine sent her down Tuesday night off the Irish coast.
 This figure was not final and high hopes that the loss of life would prove much smaller were built upon cabled reports saying just 10I men. most Of them members of the crew. were miss ing among the entire force of soldiers, sailors and passengers. No attempt was made tonight to prepare a list or the lost or missing. Only few names of survivors had been received and the indications were that it would be impossible to announce. them all before tomorrow at the earliest The rescued were landed at widely separst- ed Irish and Scotch ports and( while all reports tell of elaborate arrange ments for their care and comfort, urgent instructions to representatives of the war. state and navy depart ments that full details of the disaster and complete record of the saved be sent at the earliest possible moment tonight had brought but meagre re sponses.
 Figures of Losses.
 According to the war departments official report the total missing from the 2.379 persons aboard the liner was 210 The latest dispatch gave this re capitulation:
 Survivors. United States troops. ? 04S; crew and passengers, Al, total PISA.
 On board. United States troops. 2.156; crew and passengers, 24l, total. 2.S97
 Missing. United tSates troops 113; crew and passengers. 97; total. 210.
 Officials assumbed that an error in transmission accounted for the dis crepency in this dispatch's figures on crew and passengers. The total num- Der of missing among all persons on board. 21O. accords with a statement of the British admiralty issued early in the day. so the number of passeng- CTS and crew survivors probably should have been IA instead os HI.
 No Story Had.
 Virtually no story of the sinking of the Tuscania has reached the govern ment through official channels. Dis patches from the embassy at London and ether sources so far have been confined to terSe statements and an- nouncements of the number saved. Press accounts consequently have been read with more than ordinary in terest by everyone Army officials are proud of the way the troops behaved. and point to the story of how the par tially trained boys lined up on deck. singing national airs to await thsir turn in the boats. as evidence of what may be expected of American soldiers.
 To this absence of confusion and the fact that the vessel remained afloat for about two hours in a calm seq is attributed the small loss of life. The Tuscania was a part of a large convoy and immediate relief wss at hand.
 There has been no mention in of- ficial messages tonight of reports that a conveying destroyer, sighted and pursued the submarine that made the attack The destroyer probably was British and British admiralty reports on the incident will be awaited with the keenest interest.
 On board the liner were engineers, military police and replacement de tachments composed of former Michi- gan and Wisconsin national guards men and three aero squadrOns. Mem bers of the two aero squadrons came from nearly every section of the country.