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BRITISH TF 2,179 I Soldiers and Cre\* Possible Exec Submarine Made Attack Off ( Last Week --Transport WJ Vessels-Troops from V Washington, Keb. ?'>. 'rho British steamship Tuscania, with 2,17!) Uni ted Stu los sold lora Oll hoard, has hoon torpedoed and sunk-in tint war /.ono. Nineteen hundred and twelve of the 2,171) American olllcers and mon on board the Huer Tuscania were re ported accounted for in a dispatch to the Stale! Department to-night from tho American embassy at London. Tho War Department announced (hat its records showed tho following Were on board tho Tuscania: Headquarters detachment ami Companies n, 10 and F, of tho Twen tieth Engiuoors, 107th Engineer Train. 107.h Military Police. 107th Supply Train, moth Aero Squadron, ir>.Xth Aero Squadron. 2 1 ?Uh Aero Squadron; replacement detachments Nos. I and 2 of the Thirty-second Di vision; r?i casual olllcers, The Thirty-second Division is com posed of National Guard troops from Michigan and Wisconsin. Tho divis ion trained at Cami) McArthur, Texas. The 107th Engineers was com posed ol' tlx; first bal talions of Michi gan Engineers; the 107th Military Police was made up from the Fourth and Sixth Wisconsin, and the 107th Supply Train from the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wisconsin Infantry. Estimated at lol. London, Keb. 7.- Tho loss of Ute on the Tuscania ls now estimated at only 101. Tbl? total is given In a dispatch from a correspondent of the Associated Press in Ireland, and sub sequently was confirmed by the. American embassy. At one point there are f)">0 survi vors, eight of whom are In a hospital. At. another point there are 1,360 sur vivors, eighty of them in hospitals. A number of survivors, Including tho second ol"?or of the Tuscania, were landed at a Scottish port. The majority of the missing wore members of tho crow. Tho Tuscania was torpedoed on Tuesday night, and remained afloat for two hours after being hit. Two TOI^KNIOOS Fired. Survivors report that two torpe does were tired. Tin? first passed astern of tho vessel. Tho second struck in the vicinity of No. 1 boiler. T!ie behavior of the greater part of the soldiers and members of the crew was splendid. A few of them became excited, hindering the lower ing of tim boats. In some cases tho entire crews were thrown out while the boats were being lowered. Other boats were let down hurriedly on men who were swimming around the liner. Many casualties were occasioned in this way. Victims' ('onditiou Was Pitiable. The condition of some of the sur vivors of tho Tuscania was pitiable.. Many had cast aside their clothes and had been swimming about for two hours before being rescued. Three men from the Tuscania died from exposure lu ono boat. The following oirteial communica tion was given out early this after noon before subseqeunt reports de creased the death list: "The Cunard liner Tuscania. Capt. .1. L. Henderson, was torpedoed on the night of the fifth of February off the Irish coast while carrying United States troops. "Following are the approximate numbers saved: "United States military olllcers, 70; men, 1.93f>. "Crew, officers, i ti; men, 125. "Passengers, 3. "Not specified, 3 2. "The total number aboard, 2,397. "Total saved, 2,187. "The foregoing are approximate figures, but as correct as can be given at present." Women volunteer nurses at Larne attended to slightly injured men. Wards were improvised in hotels. Thirty seriously injured men were dispatched to local hospitals, whore they are receiving careful treatment. The resources of Larne were taxed to the utmost to provide food and cloth ing for the survivors. The American Hod Cross headquar ters hero dispatched Capt. Edgar ll. Wells und t'a pt. Smith to Belfast im mediately af UM' news of the torpedo ing of the Tuscania was received. They were instructed to spend all CA LOM El j SALIVATES AND MAKES Vol SICK Acts Like Dynamite oil a Sluggish Liver ami Von Los?? a Day's Work. There's no reason why a person should take sickening, salivating cal omel when a few cents buys a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone--a perfect .substitute for calomel. It. is a pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel, but it doesn't . make you sick and cannot salivate. Children and grown folk? can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it ls perfectly harmless. Calomel ls a dangerous drug, lt Is mercury and attacks your bones. Tako a dose of nasty calomel to-day and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated to-morrow. Don't lose a day's work. Tako a spoonful of .Dodson's Liver Tone Instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more biliousness. constipation, sluggish ness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don't find'Dodson's Liver Tone acts better than horrible calomel your money is waiting for you. -Ad. tANSPORT I J. S. TROOP r Saved With the :ptioti of 101. "oast of Ireland on Tuesday of is Convoyed by British War Wisconsin and Michigan. money needed for supplies for tho survivors. A telegram ?Iso was sent to the American consulate ut 'Bel fast, asking that money and supplies tor Imm?diate needs he supplied. Tho British Red Cross, which has depots In Ireland, immediately placed all its resources at the disposal of the Americans and instructed its rep resentatives to do anything possible to help. IJOSH Probably 1210 M vos. Washington, n. c.. Keb. 7.. The latest official dispatch receiv ed here on tho loss of thc Tuscan la places tho number of American troops missing at 113; others, 07. Total, 2 I 0. (bible messages here to-day in ship ping circles from London report the captain, purser and chief steward of the Tuscanla saved. Such reports ns were at band early to-day ?ave no details of how the transport, supposedly heavily con voyed, fell In wit I? tho submarine, but it was regarded as moro proba ble that the ship stumbled on thc submersible, rather than that the dis aster was tlie Hist shot in the much advertised German offensive against tim line of American troops and sup plies. Twentieth Engineers Aboard. At first Ibero was some confusion ut the War Department as to whe ther the Twentieth ICnginoors or the 107th Engineers were aboard the Tuscanla. It dually was established that the l()7th Engineer regiment was not on board. (Thia ls a separate organiza tion from tho 107th Engineer train, which was on board.) A headquarters company and Cc: panics D, E and P, of the Twentieth Engineers, were on board. These units comprise tho Sixth battalion of the Twentieth, which is a forestry regiment, not attached to the Thirty second division, lt is one of the for estry regiments especially organized for work In Prance. The Twentieth Engineers (forest ers) is the largest regiment In the world, although only one battalion was on the Tuscanla. The aggregate strength of the regiment is 17,00(1 officers and men. Some of the units are still In training. Col. W. A. Mit chell, of the regular army, com mands the regiment, and Henry S, Craves, chief forester of the United States Department of Agriculture, U lieutenant colonel. Neither, however was with tho battalion on the Tus ca nia. The work of the Twentieth regl ment, which was raised with the ac tive co-operation ol' the American Forestry Association, is to cut tim ber in Kreuch forests for militar) uses at the lighting front, for hosp! tals. Y.M.C.A. buildings and othei purposes. Possibility of .Mino. There was some speculation among naval officers on the possibility thal the Tuscanla might have struck a mino. The Indicated location of thc disaster ls in a region not previously frequented by submarines, but thc text of the official announcement says the ship was torpedoed, and until de tailed accounts of the incident nr< ivailablo for study, there is nothing to justify going, behind the formai statement. It ls doubtful that the Tuscnnifl was in a route usually followed by American transports. As a Grltlsl vessel under British convoy, tho se curity of tho American troops beyond :(itestion was entrusted to BrlMst handling, So far as now known, nc American naval craft shared in th? task. Probably numerous otl.ei transports or army supply vepaeh were in tho convoy. Tho process of convoying has be como almost routine through practice in both tho British and American na vies. A screen of destroyers or othei swift craft travels ahead of a con voyed fleet. The destroyers an spread out over a considerable area lt is known that virtually all of tin C?erman U-boats are equipped witl listening ile vices of considerable range, so the approach of tho de stroyors become known to tho U boat commander even before the ves sels themselves wen; sighted. Pea of 'depth bombs would drive the U boat below to lurk motionless a some depth until the sound of the dc st royce's propellers had faded oui showing that they had passed. Th U-boat probably will come to the sui face then to explore. Navy ollicials say that the on chance against which absolute prc caution will not guard is that th submarine will como up in the pat of the approaching transports, obtal a sight that will permit her to tral ber torpedo tubes by compass an again submerge. While the loss indicated was full appreciated by officials here, thei was a general air of relief about tli War and Navy Departments that tli loss of life was not larger. OPT North of Ireland. Buncrana ls on Lough Swilly o the north coast of Donegal, not fi from Londonderry, while Larne is north channel port on tho east con of Antrim, near Belfast. The lam lng points indicate that the Tuscan was taking the northern route arour Ireland to England, and the distant between Buncrana and Larne lea* Q(I)ciala to believe tho number of re cue ships searching the vicinity largo. The troops aboard tho Tuscan SUNK. S ABOARD. SURVIVORS TKIilj TUM STORY. Sonic Victims Died of Injuries-Hollie Killed hy Balts. London, Fob. 7. Thomas Smith, of Glasgow, a boatswain's mate on the Tuscania, said the steamer was proceeding to an English port under convoy. "Al 5.40 o'clock on Tues day evening/' he continued, "I was In No. I room talking with a fellow boatswain when 1 Heard a terrille ex plosion and felt the vessel heeling over. "We commenced lowering boats on the starboard side. The soldiers were lined up on deck walting for the boats. Unfortunately, many Juniped overboard. . | lound the boat at No. 1? station, to which I "proceeded, had been blown to pieces. I then helped to get boats 9-A, 9-B and 9-C away with full complements and the second of ficer got boats one to seven safely away. After seeing these launched I proceeded to the other deck, where 1 launched a raft. ^1 picked nj) ll soldiers and two of tho ship'/com pany who*were swimming about. We had no oars and had to paddle along with our hands. We were picked up at !l o'clock in the evening and land ed Wednesday morning.'' Survivors Picked Up. The llrst survivors were landed at .1.30 o'clock Wednesday morning. From then until 7 a. m. many patrol boats arrived, each bringing a full complement of survivons, the num ber of whom by that time had reach ed 550, including 10 members ol' the crew. All the medical men at Larne, on the eastern coast of Ireland, where some of the survivors wore landed, wero requisitioned. There was sufficient time for re moval of all those on hoard thc Tus canla, as sho remained afloat for about two* hours after being torpe doed. .* The Tuscania was one of a convoy of troop and provision ships which was entering what until recently wero considered comparatively safe waters. The ships were within sight of land, which was just distin guishable in tho dark of evening, when a torpedo hit the Tuscania amidship. This was at about 7 o'clock. Tho steamer took a heavy list, which made proper lowering of the boats impracticable. Some men jumped into tho sen. Others were thrown into the water when the boats were lowered. The survivors are receiving every attention. Bafts Thrown Ovoi? Killed Many. Sorgt. F. C. Dubuque and Sergt. Muller, both of 'Brooklyn, were res cued from a raft hy a coasting schooner. Sergt. Dubuque said the boat to which he had been assigned was shattered by tho explosion. He clam bered over to tho port side and was placed in a boat with ten or twelve other men. When they had been lowered half way down the ropes became disar ranged. All were thrown into the water. There was a rather heavy sea, but the sergeant was able to swim to tho stern of the liner and climbed on a raft. There he found Sergt. Muller. Sergt. Dubuque said he saw many men In the sea. Collapsible rafts wore thrown overboard to enable those who were struggling in the wa ter to save themselves. Some of theso rafts struck loaded boats. The sergeant said ho believed quite a number must have been killed In this way. The sergeant and the others on the raft were at the point of collapse when picked up, but th^y soon recov ered Fifth Ship I vost, to Line. New York, Feb. 7.-According to the records of the Anchor Line here, tho Tuscania carried a crew of 220, under command of Capt. Peter Mc Lean, the majority of the crew being subjects of Great Britain, i Tho loss of the Tuscania, which Was under charter to the Cunard Line, completes tho destruction by submarines of a fleet of five passen ger ships, aggregating 57,818 tons gross, owned by tho Anr^or Line at the beginning of the war. Tho other ships were: Caledonia, sunk in 1916; Cn meron ia, April 15, 1917; Tran sylvania, May 4, 19 17; California, February, 1917. All Soldier Victims Insulted. Washington, Feb. 7.- Every Amer ican soldier lost on the Tuscania, having dependents, was protected by government insurance. Many had appllod for voluntary Insurance which i? Issued In amounts up to $10,o00, and all are covered by gov ernment compensation, payable to^a widow, child. or widowed mother. This automatic insurance aggregates about $4,300 and is paid at the rate of about $25 a month for 20 years. CASTO RIA For Infants and Children Itt Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of were mainly from Michigan and Wis consin National Guardsmen now at tached to tho Thirty-second division, and were trained at Camp MacAr thur, Texas. Several aero squadrons and several companies of the Twen tieth engineers, a forestry regiment, were aboard. The list of units ns made public by the Adjutant Gene ral's ofllce is the same as that pub lished at the first of this article, with the exception that 155th Aero Squad ron is substituted for tho 155th. ??AP raipur mimi- .AQ Wi Our SUPP ammoniated 1( Packing Houso sive rains likec soluble, insure < preventing shei Tankage in the the soil, thus si crops without c in our Year Bo< We usc th BOND BR AIS uous service. inV m SU UM A HINES SINK- FIFTEEN. Destruction Stands the Same fort Two Successive Weeks. London, Feb. 6.-The admiralty reporta 15 British merchantmen sunk by mine or submarine in . the past week. Of these ten were of 1,600. tons or over and Ave were under 1, G00 tons. Four Ashing; vessels were also sunk. (The -British losses by mino or submarine during the week were ap proximately the same as the previous week, when nine merchantmen of more than 1,000 tons and six of lesser tonnage were destroyed.) French Loso TIu*ee. Paris, Feb. 6.-Two French steam ers of more than 1,000 tons and one under that tonnage were sunk during the week ending February 2 by mine or submarine. Ono Italian Sunk. Rome; Feb. G.-The Italian ship ping losses by mine or submarine In the week ending February 2 were very light, only one steamer under 1,600 tons being sunk. ************ * Food Will Win the War! ? Eat more coin, oats and barley * products, fish and poujtry. * Bake, boil and broil foods. * Eat less meat, wheat, sugar . and fats. * Food Will Win the Wari --+) . .? 3tAte of Ohio, City of Toledo,] Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he ls senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing 'business in the City df Toledo. County and State aforesaid,-and that said Arm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of catarrh that cannot bo cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Medicine. , FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscrib ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. A. W. GLEASON, (Seal.) NotfrVy Public. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken Internally and Acts through tho blood on the mucous surfaces of the uysteni. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., * Toledo, Ohio. 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Granger Liver Regulator contains no calomel nnd produces nono of its distressing effects, lt has, however, all tho cor rectivo value of calomel, nnd may bo freely given to children os well as to ndults. ' (.ranger Liver Regulator ls ulso freo from alcohol. A b'>x of lt lasts long, and a few doses relieve or dinary cases of biliousness, Granger Liver Regulator is sold by druggwW everywhere nt ?">c rt b'?x. Refuse all substitutes ns there h no Oth< r mcdl ci -io just like Grander Li vcr Regulator? orris brands . Are Best LEME and PACKING HOUSE BRANDS being 10% with the highest grades of genuino old time Tankage and Blood, are not leached away by exce* irdinary fertilizers. Their ammoniates, being slowly constant feeding of the plant till late maturity, thus 3dirig and< promoting vigorous, healthy growth. Tho m is rich in potash and also liberates idle potash in applying the potash requirements of - ordinary field ?tra cost. 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"Build, Build und Continue to Build Ships" is Gio Call. Washington, Fol). fi.-"Make a bridge Of ships to France" was the inessa go from (?en. Pershing and every man of his command, delivered to the American people to-night hy Major Cen. Frederick Palmer, chief censor of Gen. Pershing's staff, in an address at the N'allouai Press Club. "Build ships and let every woman and child in the laud think ships," said he. "Wo ought to bo wearing little metal ships In our buttonholes. Children ought to play with toy ships, "Would you have tho men fighting in Franco think that you had forgot ten them you in your comfort' nt hollie? Would you have tho livos of such men sacrificed because you have not conc?nlrated your efforts Oil tho thing that meant meal to them? "Toward our ship yards*for the pow?;) they fear during and after tho wat tho Gorman staff strains its vis ! iou. 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