Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-15


hlem to which the Allies, especially
Great Britain and the United States.
must devote all their energies in
view of the imperative need of keep
ing the Atlantic route open.
The Daily Telegraph says: ''The
Americans have defied the pirates all
these months and we are convinced
that the sorrow and anger which the
loss of life on the Tuscania will oc-
casion will only steel the hearts of
the people to persevere and deepen
their resolve. There is nothing in
the incident to occasion alarm, but it
constitutes a warning to US and the
Americans to concentrate on the de-
Tense of the Atlantic
ga thousand men will step forward
to fill the gap left vacant by each
of the dead,"A says the Daily Mail
Americans are looking the task
straight in the face and dangers and
difficulties, even disaster will only
serve to stimulate and steady them"
The correspondent of the Press as
ISOLATION in an Irish port says the
survivors of the Tuscania who are
there were greatly relieved to hear of
the safe arrival elsewhere of Major
Benjamin F. Wade of Washington,
commander of a contingent on the
steamer, and hundreds of other Amer
lean troops.
How American soldiers behaved
when they found that the boats as
signed to them on the Tuscania had
been smashed is told by an American
officer who landed in an Irish port.
The officer said his men behaved as
he had expected them to. Two full
boatloads under his command assem-
bled on the deck and marched to the
boats assigned them. Arriving at
their station, they found both boats
had been destroyed.
THE men lined up on deck at at
tention,'' said the officer, ''and all
preserved the utmost composure until
a destroyer came alongside and eff
fected the transfer from the gradually
sinking deck.
I'VE stood alongside until the last
man was taken off, who was the COM
mander of the ship. The patients in
the ships hospital, including several
cases of scarletina and fever, were
among the first taken off,
Reports received at the American
embassy yesterday indicated the loss
of 101 lives, while the British admit
raIty's estimate was 210. This dis
crepancy now appears to have been
due to the fact that the figures sup
piled to the embassy evidently did
not include the missing, of which
there are still many.
IL, l..
were being made by British and
American officials Jointly for great
military funerals for the Tuscania's
dead.
The committee on public informa-
ton at Washington made this an
nouncement today:
1.-THE passenger Est of the Tuscania,
compiled by the War Department at
the port of enIbarkation, shows that
the vessel carried 2,177 military pas
sengers and two civilian passengers.
The military passengers consisted of
III officers and 1850, enlisted men.
Much concern has been occasioned
throughout the country by confusion
of the 10th Regiment of Engineers
With the 10th Engineer train of the
oH1lu DANlolOll. lie ~ III regiment
Of Engineers was not nste5 IS having
sailed ON the Tuscania The 10th
Engineer train was.
AS the list of Americans On board
the Tuscania was lost when the YES
sci went down, it will be impossible to
ascertain the names of those lost until
the names of the survivors have been
kcabled to the United States.