New Britain herald., 1918-02-08
BLANK IDENTIFICATION TAGS
 PUZZLE TO ARMY OFFICIALS
Name, Rank, Company and Regiment of Each Soldier Required by Regulations of War Department.

Washington, Feb. S.-Advices to the today and officials anxiously awaited additional details to clear up the con- hict with foreign figures on the loss es.
 Gable press dispatches from an Irish port last night saying the IA bodies of American soldiers, battered beyond recognition, had been washed ashore 15 miles from the scene of the torpedOinG, dampened hopes that the troop losses would prove very small. According to figures given in oarli@r press dispatches only 1O1 of those aboard, including soldiers, members; of the crew and passengers were miss ing This had led officials to believe with the heavy loss first indicated among tho crew that most AmericaE soldiers mad been saved.
 No attempt was being made thus far to prepare a list of the missing. Only tEC names of a few survivors have been received and indications to- day were that names of survivors would continue to come in slowly as thcv are assembled in Ireland by rep resentatives of the war. navy and state
  port also saiI army identification tags found on bodies washed ashore bore no names or numbers, making idcnti- fication Impossible causing consider able speculation. Army regulations re- Ouire identification tags bearing name, rank, company and regiment of the wearcr. Although there was no of ticial confirmation of this report and officials decline to comment, it was pointed out that the dispatch said the soldiers had not been assigned to def mite units.
 Total Missing Said to Be 2t0
 According to advices in the hands of the war department, the total miss ing from the 2,379 souls aboard the liner is 21O, of which 113 arc Ameri- can troops.
 Cable press dispatches say 2,296 persons have been landed and are be- fng cared for in Irish villages and cities.
 Reports that the British destroyer which was conveying the Tuscania pursued and sank the submarine lack confirmation and the report of the British admiralty is eagerly awaited Navy officials are inclined to VleW that the Tuscania incident is an lso- lated case and have no reason to change their view that the submarine menace has been overcome.
 Early today no additional list of the survivors had become available ,rt the war or navy departments. The only partial list contained the 30 names announced yesterday.
 Physical difficulties n preparing lists of survivors, it was said today at the war department, may greatly delay publication of an accurate list of the lost The survivors have been landed at various points. Until off, cials get in touch with them and check them off against the muster rolls there is no way to determine who are missing although the number may be known.
 Many in Hospitals.
 The navy department today an- nounced that latest reports of the survivors show 76 officers and 1,2'4 enlisted men of the army haVe peen landed at Buncrana, Ireland, that 10 officers and seanen of the crew As'Ve been landed at Larne, lrelaho' ano that approximately 570 ot1tcers ana enlisted men of the army nave been landed as Islay, Scotland
 Tn oddition." the department an-
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