The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-02-07
MUST WIN WAR,
We WILL WIN WAR
Declares Baker - Nation Is
United in Sympathy With
Families Bereaved.
UNITED TO PRESS ON
Blow Not Believed To Be
Stroke in Germany's Much
Advertised Campaign.
UNITED TO PRESS. ON

Washington, Feb. 7.-Torpedoee and
sunk by German submarine, the
Cunard liner Tuscania, bearing 2,l7y
officers and men of the Thirty. second
national guard division, lies at the
bottom OF the north Atlantic ocean
| today, and at least 1853 troopers,
probably more, are missing.
On the basis Of figures reported to
the war and state departments here
the missing would be 267; the figures
OF the British admiralty, as they
stood early today, however, placed the
missing at 1863.
There is every hope that the lower
number will prove to be correct
British conveys close to the torpedoed
ship closed in quickly and did heroic
work, as the comparatively small
number lost shows. The position
of the Tuscania off the north coast Of
Ireland, evidently headed for England,
also was such that numbers of British
patrol ships and other vessels rushed
to her side.' and in that way the losses
were minimized.
Such reports as were at hand early
today gave no details of how the
transport. supposedly heavily con-
voyed, fell In with the submarine, but
1t was regarded as more than probable
that the ship stumbled on the sub
mersible, rather than that the disaster
was the first shot in the much adver-
tised German offensive against the
line of American troops and supplies.
Washington, Feb. 7.--Additionai dis
patches reached the war department
today saying that some 600 survivors
are at Larne, ireland, and that ~ are
at isIay, Scotland. The dispatches said
the, British authorities were doing ev-,
erything to make the survivors as
comfortable as possible and were
sending supplies to places where they
landed. This does not materially
change the number saved, which
stands at 1912.
Indications early today were that
1853 American army officers and sol
diers have not yet been accounted for
in the sinking of the Tuscania. British
admiralty dispatches account for 2,01l
American officers and men as sur
vivors, War department records show
2179 American officers and men were
aboard.
Those Safe in Scotland.
Among those arriving at Fort Ellen
Islay Scotland, were the following
Second Lieutenant Frank l..
Maker engineers.
Following belonged to Company
F., Sixth battalion. Twentieth
engineers: First Lieutenant
Schweissingei.
The war depa :ttiriss:st issued the fol-
lowing statement:
To Give All Assistance.
British authorities have wired in
structions to their commands in Scot
land and Ireland to afford our troops
from the Tuscania every possible as
sistance and to furnish them with
clothing requirements. Officers have
been dispatched from Liverpool and
Glasgow and London to points In Ire
land where survivors now are ard
they will l.ire names Immediately.
American consul at Belfast reports 500
survivors at Larne. AS soon as they
are properly outfitted they Will be
brought to Winchester"
Fresh Challenge to World.
Secretary Baker issued the follow
ing statement; A.. r...;
brings us face to face with the
losses of war in its most relentless
form. IL is fresh challenge to
the civilized world by an adyer-
sary who has refined, but made
more deadly the stealth OF the
savage in warfare. We must win
this war and we will win this
war. Losses like this unite the
country in sympathy with the
families of those who have suf-
fered loss; they also unite US to
make more determined our pur-
pose to press on.
"As rapidly as details come in.
they will be given to the public.
in order to relieve anxiety where
possible, and notice will be sent
as promptly as possible to those
whose sons and brothers have been
added to the nations heroic dead"