- - - - — i 1 Bodies Cannot Be Identified as' Somebody Had Ignored Or ders in Failing to Tag v Soldiers. BRAVERY HIGHLY PRAISED American Soldiers Lined Up On Deck of Tuscania and Sang National Anthem as Ship Settled. London, Feb. 0.—Revised figures in dicate that the loss of life on the Tus cania probably was considerably in ex cess of yesterday's estimates of 101. It is now believed complete returns will show the number of dead to bo nearer 200 than 100. Reports received at the American embassy yesterday indicated the loss of 101 lives, while the British admiralty’s estimate was 210. This discrepancy now appears to have been due to the fact that the figures supplied to the em bassy evidently did not include the missing, of which there are still many. It was announced today that arrange ments were being maue by British and American officials jointly for great mil itaiy funerals for the ’> uscania's dead. An Irish Port, Beb. 9—As the list of; Americans on board the Tuscania was j lost when the vessel went down, it will be impossible to ascertain the ^ names of those who lost their lives un til the names of the survivors .lave been cabled to the United abates. Washington, Feb. S.- Ti c navy de partment today announced that latest reports of the survivors of the Tus eania show 70 officers and 1.274 en listed men of the army have been land ed at Buncrana, Ireland: that 16 offi cers and seamen ot' the crew have been landed at Larne, Ireland, and that ap proximately 570 officers and enlisted men of the army have been landed at Islay. Scotland. Mr addition," the department an nouncement continues, "appi oximately 99 soldier? and members of the crow i are reported to be in hospitals. Six I members of the crew and 72 soldiers I Hie in the military hospital at London derry. Ten soldiers are in Lough Foyle hospital at Londonderry and nine sol diers and two of the crew arc in the county irfirmnrv at Londonderry." Somebody Siuncici cJ. War department officials are unable to account, for the statement made in news dispatches that Ida i« identifica tion tags were found on the bodies of 4 ! American soldiers washed ashore. liven if the men had not been definit ely assigned to an organisation the army regulations require that the tag bear on one side the full name of the wearer. When the soldier is assigned to ill number of hit. regiment *h« desig nation of hir; company and his indi vidual number in shut company are supposed to be added immediately to the other side of the tag. The organisation commander is held responsible by military regulations for the completion of those tags, the pur pose of which is to prevent just such a situation as is' described in the dis patches from abroad. When the Tuscania was struck by the Herman torpedo the American sol diers went calmly to their positions. As they lined up on one side of the deck, with the crew, all Britishers, on the other, the national anthems of tIVe Anglo-American allies were sung. The lack of panic facilitated the work of the British destroyers, who braved danger by coming up to the side of ihc sinking liner and tab’us off the sul diers. The Tuscania remained afloat | two hours. Iteports of some survivors that, the i submarine fell n victim to the swift ! vr usance of the British destroyers lack i official confirmation. One American 1 officer has related that the hi-boat at- 1 tempted to sink the rescuing di ntroyetx and that one pursued the submarine and dropped depth bombs, silencing u probably for all time. < table press dispatches say that 2,396 ! persons have been landed and arc be ing cared for in Irish villages and Sang as Ship Went down. No official story ol the sinking has reached the department and pre?t; stories of the cool behavior of the troops, some of them partially trained bo\ -, who lined the rail singing na tional airs, have been read with inter est' by army officers. K«’ports that the British destroyed I w ea r v.as convoying the Tuscanki pur- i sued and sunk the submarine, als., Jack ; confirmation, and the report of the British admiralty is <•; gei !> rvaicto. An Irish Port. Feb. .-A mass o}. rwn ling wreckage on the calm aeek of : 11k- :;ca along'the Irish coast marks the | grave of Tie Tuscania, the first Amcri-j can truer. ship to be sunk by a German! submarine. A. few bodies of the 100 men ' who perished have been we sited ashore, and some of the injured now in hos pitals are expected to pnwumb. The sin • iyors numbering 2,2iui arc quar U re.d in hotels, homes and dais : along the north Irish coart. No One Saw Torpedo. Two groups left today clau in mir \ lit clothing for Belfast by rail and . tJtence by boat to I .nglanci. 'I d sui , vivors are agreed that no one saw tin - wako of foam as thg torpeuo < ame to ward the vessel. ft was a black night and no alarm came from any one of the it- lookouts. 1 The. torpedo struck the Tuscania a vi tal blow amidships, in Jh< n« ilcr room.) and there was a muffled crash, which . told everyone what had happened. The possibility ot being torpedoed ! w.'.s discussed almost daily since th • I vessel left the American shores. »Sev- • era I hundred yofing lunibci jacks from | tile southwest and Pacific coast states i were eating their evening neai at the j time the disaster oecurted. Hundreds i of other Amcti an troun:; w-ro waiting 1 for tlibits when the geiur l alarm! s ended. Many Untrained Troops. False alarm? had b< • ;• sounded or j boat drill every day of tie vip. hut all] knew that thin on< was gt ti-.iim*. Of- ; fleers shouted institutions h> the men. i Alauy of them woix husky youths and. j despite their brief military training they displayed wonderful coolness as ] they marched to their boat stations. There was no running cbout, nothing resembling a panic. •a e few isolated; cates th«?rc were signs of nervousness on the pnrt of some «T tlio youngsters vjs the ship look a heavy tiir. to star-, hoard and ‘bey slid to the railing, to which they clung for dear life. But that was nil. Veteran British officers In the .tow who had boon torpedoed several times, maivrlel at their cool ness. .Survivors do n atrree as tr whether. PRIORITY ORDER ON GRAIN ISSUED TODAY Iowa and the Dakotas Included in States Where Rule Is Effective. Washington, D. <’.. Feb. 9.—Priority over the national railroads for grain and grain products in 12 mid-western states, including Iowa, North and South Dakota and Nebraska, was ordered this afternoon by Director General McAdoo. the submarine emerged after torpedoing the steamer. Several of the ship's of ficers said they saw the periscope and conning tower once. A tiny trawler, which remained with the Tuseania to the last, saw a small fire break out amidships as the vessel's back appeared to break in two. With a hissing sound, she disappeared be neath the waves. Most of the crew who lost their lives were killed in the explosion in the boil er room. One of the survivors of the engine force said the second engineer checked the speed of tne Vessel after the impast by throwing the engine lev ers over to “full.” This probably saved many lives, as otherwise the vessel would have plowed on, smashing boat divits, as happened in the case of the Lusitania. One of the remarkable escapes was that of a fire man who had walked to the upper deck to got a drink of water. He never saw his fellow fireman again. U-BOAT ATTACKED WARSHIPS. London, Feb. 9.—That a. German sub marine endeavored to attack the de stroyers while the latter were engaged in rescue work is the statement made by an American officer at an Irish port where a large number of men were landed. The officer said to a corres pondent of the Associated Press: ‘ The thing that somehow impressed me most in the whole experience was the promptitude and precision with which the British naval men handled their craft under the trying conditions of rescue work. This work had only just begun when there came the most exciting moments of the night. “A U-boat from the curtain of black ness, behind whicn she was skulking, thought to finish the work by an attack on tbe destroyers. Three torpedoes were discharged in a few minutes at three destroyers and it was only due to the watchfulness of the lookouts and the splendid seamanship of the British naval men that they failed to reach their targets. “This onslaught, however, revealed the approximate location of the enemy and a pair of destroyers at once at tacked with guns and bombs so effec tively that even if the U-boat was not sunk it was afraid to show itself again." - 4~ SHOWED PINE DISCIPLINE. London Feb. 9.—How American sol diers behaved when they found that the boats assigned to them on the Tus cania had been smashed, is told fly an American officer who landed at an Irish port The officer said that his men be haved as he ltad expected them to. Two full boatloads under his command as sembled on the deck when the torpedo struck the liner and marched to the boats assigned them. Arriving at their station they found that both boats had been destroyed. “The men lined up on deck at atten tion,” said the officer, “and ail pre served the utmost composure until a destroyer came alongside and effected the transfer from the gradually sinking deck. “We stood along side until the last man was taken off, who as might be expected, was the commander of the ship. Tlie patients in the ship’s hos pital. including several cases of scar lctina and fever, were among the first taken off.” Heatless Mondays Suspended in States South of Virginia —Order Soon May Be General. Washington, J>. - activities could be made tinder specified restrictions if it were shown that, hanks were discriminating against them. Similar legislation now in force in England and France has been success ful, Secretary MeAdoo said. Senator t’enrose observed that in England there had not been any issue of "uncovered paper." ‘‘At least the covering is so thin you eau’t see it," remarked Senator Smoot, "and that it is exactly what we are coming to in this country." Mr. MeAdoo said the bill sought to .prevent that condition. A4444444-4444444444-f4444++4 -4 4 4 THINK SPIES GAVE TIP. 4 4 -— 4 4 I.ondon, Feb. 9.—That the 4 4 Germans had information of the 4 4 Tn Scania and other vessels with 4 4 important personages aboard, 4 4 was the belief expressed by pas 4 4 sengers aboard ships which ac- ♦ 4 companied the torpedoed ship. 4 4 A distinguished personage 4 4 from another ship who wit- 4 4 nessed the attack on the Tns- 4 4 cania, said that three torpedoes 4 4 were fired later Tuesday eve- 4 4 ning at the vessel on which he 4 4 was aboard. He declared his be- 4 4 lief that the U-boats were acting 4 4 on information obtained through 4 4 the German spy system. 4 GERMMTHRUST Artillery Fire Disperses Body of Troops Estimated at Two Battalions—Clean Out Snipers. By Associated Press. On the American sector in France the artillery Is endeavoring to even the score with the enemy by bombing heavily German batteries, trenches and other military targets. German guns were silenced when they attempted to reply. The American gunners succeed ed in dispersing a large body of Ger mans, estimated at two battalions and inflicting losses on the detachment. Tlie German efforts against tlie French lines at Verdun and in Alsace are growing stronger. Infantry at tacks have taken tho place of raids, but tlie latest German attempts were re pulsed with loss by the French north east of Verdun, at the Bois Des Fosses and south of Hartmanweilkopf, in Al saee. Small raids and the usual artil lery actions have occurred on the Brit ish front. In Italy artillery activity has been slight. With the American Army in France, (Thursday), Feb. 7.—American artillery and infantry have succeeded in clean ing out a majority of the snipers who caused considerable annoyance from the time the sector was taken over by tlie troops. Snipers' posts in buildings have been destroyed by knocking down the shelters over the heads of the Ger mans with shells. Snipers hidden in bushes or in shell holes have been routed by American sharpshooters. Night patrols have succeeded in locat ing some of the positions and the Ger mans in them have been finished off later. Last night a small patrol entered an advanced German trench in search of a nest of snipers. A lieutenant, a cor poral and two men left the American lines and returned five hours later. They walked across No Man's Land, picking their way carefully to avoid discovery. Reaching the enemy wire they crawled beneath it cautiously and approached the most advanced enemy trenches. The men looked down into ; tlie trench, which apparently was aban i doned, but there was some surprise when they dropped down noiselessly and found a place where the trench bot tom showed fresh footprints. On the parapet the corporal discovered a rifle loaded and pointed in the direction of the American trenches. There was not a German around. Tlie corporal brought back the rifle to tlie American lines. It is a typical German weapon made in Berlin and in good condition. At another point enemy snipers were discovered in a shell hole. A few well placed shots from light artillery ended their career. At another place a hail of machine gun bullets were effective. One, two, or possibly three snipers’ posts are still in front of the American positions, but they are not likely to be there long. U. S. GUNS WELL HIDDEN. With the American Armies in France, Feb. 9.—German shells today were at tempting to seek out the perfectly camouflaged American heavy guns. This afternoon the enemy’s heaviest guns monotonously and persistently i hurled big projectiles where they be ! lieved the American guns were hidden. Trenchland was more iiuiet than I usual today. Occasionally there wei e outbursts of machine gunning. A fc .v i German pineapple bombs landed on i the wire entanglements without dom i age to the Sammies. Taking advantage of the clear, windy ; day the Sammies hung out their lain i soaked clothing to dry. I Working parties accomplished a great I improvement in the drainage < f the | American sector. This relieve i the i near flood situation resulting fr< .1 yes I terday's light rain. Nightly patrols completely p ce Nc i Man’s Land for the entire wld! a of the I sector they occupy. SHEIK OF MECCA!3 VICTOR OVER TURKS — Arab Troops Gain Smashin Success in Battle Near Dead Sea. Washington, Feb. 9. Arab forces I under the command of the sheik of 1 Mecca have completely defeated the I Turkish army operating near the Dead | sea, official messages today stated. In a sanguinary battle started on January ; ,30, the tribesmen practically annihi ! luted the entire Turkish force, oaptur I ing 300 prisoners, Including the Turkish : commander in chief, and ids entire staff, the report states. The Turk losses in killed alone ex ! ( ceded 400. Eighteen machine guns, I two mounted guns and a large amount ; of bootv fell into the hands of the 1 Arabs. WAR TRADE BOARD IS ORGANIZED JIM CANADA Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 8.—The govern j ment announced today the creation for ; Canada of a war trade hoard to co operate with the corresponding author ities in the United States with a view | to secure the mo.st effective unity of I action by the two countries for war I trade purposes. CAPTURE AUTO BANDITS. Middleboro, Mass.. Feb. 8.—Four I automobile bandits who started out last j night to raid post offices on Cape Cod were captured here today after being j fired ott by officers here and at Ware j ham, 1K miles away. One of the men ; was shor. but not fatally injured. Reported That Bolshevists Have Ordered Ministers Deported —Dispatch Lacks Offi cial Confirmation. CONTINUE PEACE PARLEYS Russians Still Reported to B« Holding Out For Terms Providing For No Annexations. Copenhagen. Feb. 9.—General Brusiloff, commander In chief of the Russian armies under Keren sky, has been arrested in Moscow, according to Rerlin dispatches re ceived here today. Washington, D. C.. Feb. 8.—Pe trograd is again the scene of grave disorders. One hundred and twenty persons are said to have been killed in clashes between troops and rio ters in three days. Washington, D. O., Feb. 9.—An un confirmed report that all the allies' mis sions at Petrograd had been driven out by the bolshevist government and are on their way to the Swedish border, was received today at the state depart ment through American Minister Mor ris at Stockholm. The department has not heard from Ambassador Francis at Petrograd since February 2. State department officials were un prepared to believe that the American ambassador was leaving Petrograd be cause his last dispatch contained noth ing to indicate that he contemplated going. It was considered possible, however, that expulsion might also in clude a refusal to permit the diplomats to communicate with their govern ments. Minister Morris at Stockholm also reported that two trains from Petro grad had arrived there one bringing the expelled Rumanian legation. He also reported the capture of Torneo by the White Guards. It wits assumed that the minister's information regarding t)ie reported ex pulsion of diplomats from Petrograd was received from passengers on these trains. Recently Ambassador Francis received threats from a group of an archists to hold him responsible for the safety of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, sentenced to prison for conspiring against the draft law. There appeared to be no reason for be lieving that the Petrograd government was a party to the threat. Recently, also the foreign office refused to per mit diplomats to d’^^ upon funds in Petrograd banks. By United Press. Petrograd, Feb. 9.—-Increasing Ger man internal disaffection is responsible for the change of tone of the Russian delegates at the Brest-Litovsk peace conference. Hope is daily strengthening the Rus sians. There is no retreat from their original position and they may de mand that tlie central powers apply Russia’s formula of no annexations to the west front. ALL MEN OF 21 T9 BE REGISTERED SOON Bill Amending Draft Law Re ported to Senate For Passage. Washington, Fob. 9.—Favorable re port on the war department’s bill amending the selective draft law to re quire registration of men as they reach 21 years and basing quotas on the number of men in Class 1, instead of on state populations, was unanimously ordered today by the Senate military committee. Proposal to exempt men as they reach 31 years, if they have not been drafted, which was opposed by Provost Marshal General Crowder, was not in cluded in the bill. An amendment proposed by Senator New, of Indiana, to require registration of youths at 19 years or over was also rejected. Another hill favorably reported which affects the draft, would authorize the president in any emergency to call in to immediate military service skilled experts In industry or agriculture, re gardless of classification, residence or quota. BANKS PLEDGE AID IN PURCHASING PAPER Washington, D. Feb. 9.—Whole hearted cooperation by banks and trust companies was pledged in thousands of telegrams which came today to Secre tary McAcHo in response to his appeal to banks to appropriate 1 per cent of their resources every two weeks for 20 weeks for purchase of certificates of indebtedness t'» be issued in prepara tion for the third Liberty loan. Some of the telegrams indicating the enthusiasm of the bankers were. “Our resources are $1,890,000. Ten per cent would be $190,000. We have this day set aside $200,000 subject to your call." “Our resources are at your command. They will be of no use to us if Lerinnny wins." NO FURTHER TRACE OF STEAMER IN DISTRESS An Atlantic Port, Fob. S. Nothing further has been heard today from a steamer in distress off the Newfound land coast which sent out calls for as sistance yesterday. The message was picked up by a warship nearer shore and relayed to government stations. Naval authorities suggested that the call might have come from the Canard liner Aurunia reported to have been damaged by a German submarine, hut still afloat and making her way toward port. TWO AVIATORS KILLED. Lawton. Okla., Feb. K.— Lieut. Dudley A. Loomis, pilot and Lieut. Loft in Stamps, observer, were burned to death this afternoon on the post field Fort Sill school of aerial observers, when their machine made a nose dive from a height of 500 feet and burst into flames as it struck the ground. Tliets bodi s vrers burned beyond recognition. JOKE THAT CARRIED MORAL Humorist Found How Many Men Were Sincere In Desire to Save for the Country's Needs. Even the jokers aided Doctor Jame son, the fuel administrator. A group of young men wore enjoy ing the comfortable cushions of ft cigar store. One of the hoys looked up and saw a single light burning over the entrance of a cafe. He stepped to a telephone and culled up the cafe. ‘‘That light you have burning over your entrance Is superlluous. Put It out,” said he. In a jiffy the light was out. Up the street a dentist’s office dis played a fancy electrical advertise ment. The young man called the dent ist’s office. "For conservation’s sake please ex tinguish your‘electric sign,” he said. Out went the dentist’s sign. On around the circle the order, jokennade, went on anil before an hour had passed the central part of the business district was In darkness. “Having served my country, I guess I'll grope my way home lo supper,” the joker said. And he went his darkened way. The jokers gained a patriotic moral. They sat for an hour discussing the willingness of so many people to com ply with the nation’s war needs. Jest From the Army. Justin Omad, whom we suspect of being a sergeant major In a certain Infantry regiment, tried his hand at dqmestlee dialogue with the following result : "Dearest, don’t you think you should tie more careful in slumming doors?" lie ventured. They laid been married three whole months, and had never quarreled. She pouted now. "You're scolding me," siie said, "and you don’t love me any more. A'„3 just liecnuse T slammed the door.” "1 >nn't let’s quarrel," lie answered. "No matter what you did, I couldn't love you any less." And then lie wondered why she cried. And Justin Omad sends us a military joke, too; hut that will have to wait for another day. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. That Ancient Feeling. Itloblis—"I feel like the oldest man in the world." Slobbs—“What are you talking about? You are not u day over thirty.” Illobbs—"Yes, but I’ve just been listening to n boy of sixteen tell about things lie used to do when he \\ ns a kid.” Warned Off. NYifey—I hear reports of Herman measles being in the neighborhood. Hubby—Stick out our American flag. Sometimes a man Is like a brook that makes its greatest'noise where It falls. HAD KEEN EYE TO BUSINESS Good Reason Why Young Man Did Not Desire House as Gift From His Father-in-Law. John D. Rockefeller, Jr„ nt the Y. M. C. A. camp In New Jersey, where he has bcfen doing volunteer war work, told a story about a mean young man “Tills mean young man,” he suld. “married a girl of wealthy parentage, and the young couple began their wed ded life In a house belonging to tha bride's father. “Not long ago, while we were dis cussing market conditions together, 1 asked the young man If It was true that his father-in-law had made him a present of the house he lived In. “ ‘It’s a very generous thing, if so?' I added. “ ‘Well, it ain't so,' said tfcO young man. ‘That is, it ain’t exactly so. Ho offered me the house, but I wouldn’’ accept It.’ “‘Why not?’ sakl I. “He winked solemnly. “ ‘The house Is sure to be willed to lac when my father-in-law dies,’ ho said, ‘and meanwhile Tin living In it rent free, while the old man pays the taxes.’ ’’ Modest But Noted Men. It is not generally known that, be fore the war, British capital was al ready being employed in Mesopotamia, under the direction of Sir William Wllleocks, and with the sanction of the sultan, to redeem the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates by irrigation. The name of Sir William does not mean much to the uninitiated. He Is the most approachable and unassum ing of men. Rut to his skill Egypt owes her salvation and he Is the only Christian for whom the Mohammedans have been known to pray in their mos ques. The building of the dam of As souan was but th« concrete outcome of bis Ideas. As a worker he has Roose veltinn energy. Oil a round of inspee tion, it is popularly said by tlie “Oyp py" officials of his suite, he sets out to walk from Alexandria in the morning, lunches In Cairo, and ends up at Luxor in the evening for a shake down.— Christian Science Monitor. Another “Less” Day. Mother whs giving tier young son a ball). Site, of course, scoured him ralh or heavily nnd got soap in Ins eyes be sides. “Mother,” he said between ids shrieks. “Yes, dear." “When are we gain' to have it?" “Have what?” “Why, one o' these here ‘less- days. I want a sonpless day." Can’t Be Done. “I tell her she Is the only woman T ever loved.” “Of course.” “But she doesn’t seem to believe me." “You can’t help that. I doubt if Adam ever convinced Eve on that point."—Lnnis I ville Courier-Journal. Alfalfa, $0; tied Clover, $S; Sweet Clover, $17; Pedigreed Barley, $2. J. MulhuII, Sioux City, la.—Adv. 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