Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-02-07

The president, Secretary Baker and
IN fact all official Washington were
up late waiting for further news. Only
the briefest dispatches were received
and none gave details of the attack on
the liner. Even the time was missing,
but it was assumed that it occurred
early this morning as the first mes
sage was filed at London at o'cock
this afternoon, probably within an hour
after the relief ships reached the
Irish coast. The president was at tho
theater when the nsws was received
and he was not told until he returned
to the White House. In the meantime
the war, navy and state departments
rad sent ufqert messages by wireless
and cable irstructinc their represent
atIVes in England and Ireland to fc--
ward every available fact Immediately.
Because of the nature of the military
organizations carried by the ship, the
war department announced that il
would be impossible to say definitely
what troops were aboard until the list
OF survivors was received. Later, how
ever, the adjutant generals office made
the list public. Il follows:
UNITS ON BOARD SHIP
ARE MADE PUBLIC
Headquarters detachment and Com
panies D, and of the Goth en-
eineers.
10th engineer train.
10Th military police.
10Th supply train.
Number 100 aero squadron.
10Th aero squadron.
2l3th aero squadron.
Replacement detachments numbers
] and of the 32nd division.
Flfty-one casual officers,
thus all the soldiers are former
Wisconsin and Michigan guardsmen
except those in the aero squadron, who
probably were recruited from all parts
of the country.
Neither the dispatch to the war de-
| partment nor that to the state depart
ment referred to the fate of the men,
bers of the Tuscania's crew. Undoubt-
| edly many of them were saved, and
when all reports are in officials hope
that the loss of life will be remarkably
small. The liner. which is not a regu-
lar transport, was under convoy and
/ the warships apparently were quickly
| alongside for rescue work when the
| torpedo struck.
First News was Brief
The first news was given here in
this terse announcement from the war
! department:
The war department has been Of
| ficially advised that The steamship
! Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk and
! that survivors numbering 1,1OO as far
as could be ascertalned, were landed
at Bunchanna and Larne in Ireland.
There was a total of 2179 United
States troops on this vessel. No
names of persons lost have been re-
| ported to the war department and no
names of survivors were reported"
The state departments dispatch gave
| the number of soldiers on board as
2,l73, six less than the war depart
ments report. 1t told of plans prompt
ly made for caring for the survivors.
The state department issued this
statement:
THE latest advices received by the
state department from the embassy at
London regarding the Tuscania is that
at II .. m. February 6, the latest in
formation was that 1912 officers and
men on the Tuscania were accounted
for, out of 2173
Every Aid Is Extended
The ambassador has sent an as
sistant military attache and another
army officer to Belfast, Ireland Rep
resentatives of the American Red
Cross and of the Y. NJ. c. A. have gone
with full power to spend all the money
needed and authorizations from the
ment at Belfast The ambassador
further reports that the lord mayor al
Belfast is giving all the aid possible II
The Tuscania was the first ship
carrying American troops to Europe to
be sunk by German submarines, bu;
the American transport Antilles was
torpedoed and sunk in the war zone
while returning to the United States
-tom France and IA soldiers were los
with 156 other persons. including sew
eral members of the naval armed
guard.
American warships conveying trans
ports to France last June twice fought
off submarine attacks. Since then
however, there has been no report of ar
attack on a ship carrying American
, troops to Europe.
, Have Feared the Raid
Recently the navy department ha.
feared that the Germans would max,
; n concerted effort to intercept trans
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