9 od Steamer Was Sunk War While Being Convoyed By British Warships—Survivors Landed At mn Irish Ports—President Hears News At Theatre. Washington. Tuscania, with 2,179 United goldiers on board, has been torpedoed and sunk in the war zone. No mate of the loss life available, but 1,912 survivors have at Buncranna and Larne, | It was announced that the was manned British i a British naval guard and was voyved by British warships. The War Department that its records showal the were on board the Tuscania THE UNITS ON BOARD. nts €eni States est of is been landed eland Tusca by sailors, nn¢ ann unced following Headquarters det and Con panies D, E and F of neers, 107th en ine casual office: FROM THE WEST. vizion had be 1 lost, OFFICIAL STATEMENT. disaste mn ved By doubtedly and when hope that markably small The liner, which is transport, was under convoy warships apparently were along side for rescue work torpedo struck Red Cross And Y. M. C. A, There, “The Ambassador at London gent an assistant military attache and another army officer Jelfast, Ire land. Representatives of the Amer jcan Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A also have gone, with full power gpend all the money needed and au thorizations from the British Red Cross to use their equipment at Bel fast. the not a regular and the quickly when the lias to ing all the ald posaible” The Tuscania was the first *to be sunk by German submarines, but the American transport Antilles was torpedoed and sunk in the war zone while returning to the United States from France and 14 soldiers were lost with 166 other persons, including sev. eral members of the navdl armed guard Attacks Fought Off, American warships convoying trans- off submarine however, attacks. Since then, there has been no report of ship carrying American Recently th that a concerted eNavy Department has make trans sub- inter. feared the Germans would effort ’ eal} recall of to intercept ports, the many of the marine bases bel to indiacts nd. Her that Accidents Unavoid hannel port approximate distance by water between the two ports fs miles MUST PREACH TO ONE MAN. Chaplain Candidates Required To De. liver Sermon As Test. To hear at least each applicant for chaplain in the navy is duty imposed on Chaplain J. B. Frazier, chairman of the exam- ination board. With Chaplain Frazier as the congregation the candidate de livers from the pulpit of a local church a sermon which is considered in determining his fitness for the sery- | fee Washington sermon from of wartime one the the | post 224 LOST WITH SHIP, British Armed Steamer Louvain Torpedoed In Mediterranean, London.—The British armed board. inf steamer Louvain, Lieut. Com. M. G. Easton commanding, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the Eastern Mediterranean on Janu ary 21. Seven officers and 217 men were lost, TURNED TABLES ON THE GERMA American Gunners Breax Plans for a Raid Up GERMAN LOSS WAS SEVERE Where Massed-—Great Cour. Fire Concentrated On Spot Enemy ls age During Bombard- ment, The Army in German raid the trenches were frustrated. fcan artilleryvmen put barrage in front of and man France. American The Amer down a heavy American plans to on the Ger lines, which are believed to have ; ' signal to attack It was certain hour tl Pr Hs 5 ] 3 day nd line of particular point evening a Next in importance to the on the American front tacks by the Germans against the French in the Aisne region and north of Verdun, near Beaumont, The French War Office that the attacks north of the Alene were repulsed, but the German War Office says that south of Beauncourt Baden storming troops pushed far into the French front, in- flicted heavy cagualties and returned to their own lines with prisoners, The British have carried out suc cessful raids against the Teutons southwest of Armentieres and in the vicinity of the Ypres Staden Railway, where many of the enemy were killed and others captured. operations have been at- asserts Intengive air fighting has been going on between the French and the Ger mans in France and between the Italian and British airmen %nd the Germans in the Italian theatre. Sun day 12 enemy planes were downed by the French far inside the German lines, while an equal number were shot down by British and Italian air men. PA. France. memsra— WRECK ENEMY DUG OUTS Huns Concentrate On U. 8. Trenches -Their Aviators Balked In At. tempt To Get Behind The Line. American Army. in France—A Ger man barrage fire at sundown Saturday opened bombard of many Amer fean sector, the American artillery re plying shell for shell as the firing of the guns spread along several t the heaviest dave along the heavy Two Ame were killed and nine ricans during the bombardment and one suffered si The Americ eral of the badly damaged that at on an gl enems 134 £8 ineeMa o the battle de ive capt a ired the t The eastern ena in France and Belg Frenéh and German Lorraine Lorréaine, in which is the sector, is in~luded in of Meuse, the dun: Meurthe-et-Moselle ital of Nancy, and capital at Epinai. The length of front in French Lorraine is about 15 miles This section of the battle line ex tends into the Meuse from the Marne gear St. Monehould, and runs east ward to the north of Verdun, south of St. Mihie! and east to the German barder. There it turns to the south east, and almost paraliels the border to the vicinity of lLeintry. Below Leintry it cuts across a section of French soil, past Badonviller and Senones and to the east of St Die, and again crosses the German border at a point west of Colmar. The re mainder of the line to the Swise boun- dary is in Germany. Since the battle of Verdun there has been no fighting of great importance along this front. For the most part it runs through high and broken country. Sinde the present battle line was established early in the war there has been comparatively little activity on the front to the east of the Verdun sector, the nature of the country mak- ing large operations impracticable. attle line runs through French American Departments f capital! of which is Ver the whose cap Vosges, with the “© ORGANIZATION ACCOUNTS FOR MONEY ENTRUSTED TO IT. Date §70.450,727.35 Has Been An Relief Worl we Answored, propriatzd for Criticisms the with the Feb rican Red Cro: Washington, Amie gums of money entrusted to it by of the United in a report just Issued vast Vasil the people States ‘s stated in detall the natio $79,4560,727.35 headquarters. To date, been appropriated this country and has work In abroad For foreign relief $44,657,795 has Jelgium, $1.999.621; $751,940.87: Roumania, $2,617. Italy, $2,146,016; Serbia, $871 - Great Britain, $1,703,642; other countries, $2,536,200, Ameri who be taken oner, $343,627. The foreg goidiers may pris are en For Cross hi ing appropriation nited States il 30, 1918 pri the 1 the Red nd the rea bed ever secyte War Until Tre sure Produces Change Of Temper In Enemy PILOT AND CAPTAIN HCL Former Blamed For Colligion That Wrecked Halifax, Hulifax, N. 8 Blame for lision between French ship Mont Blane and the Belgian 1 ship Imo resulgng in the explosion of the former the vessel, which deztroved a placed upon Pilot MacKay, of French ship, in a judgment announced by the government commission which investigated the collision. 1 / i TELLING TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA Great Task of Commitlee on Public Information. TO MOLD WORLD OPINION Work Is Basing Done dy The Committee Of Which George Creel Is Chairman—Iits Varied Activities Summarized, Moulding hamime: America’s Washington about the world and uth about gigantic task Public reel, chairs the by tion President Wilsor de public WAr, the the Committee on so George ( 10 day. “It has only 250 paid empl t directs and coordinates the pati work of 5.000 vo'unteer write: artists and 20.060 public speaker: Counteracting Disloyaity, “To carry on its multifarious act ties in the United States it has its beginning, in April to December 21, 1917. R21 96 for salaries and $325.7 all Its other expenses Accepting the report, President Wilk down mission's judgment, Pilot MacKay was arrested charged with that he be criminally prosecuted and his license caficeled. The commission also recommends to the French authorities the cancel lation of the license of Captain Lame odec and “that he be dealt with ae cording to the law of his country.” Captain Lamodec was also arrested charged with manslaughter, HUNS SENTENCE 2 BRITISHERS, Amsterdam. — Two captured Birtish airmen, the Tages Zeitung, of Berlin, says, have been sentenced by a Gen man court martial to ten years’ im- prisonment for dropping a bostlie proclamation in Germany. “The White House, Washington. Jan uary 14, 1018 “To carry on “My dear Mr. Creel: 1 have just Committee on Public Information tirely the work being done by the com- mittee meets with my approval i have kept In touch with that work, piece by piece, as you know, in our several interviews, but had not real ized its magnitude when assembled in a single statement. “1 feel confident that as the work of the committee progresses it will more and more win the public ap proval and confidence. Cordially and sincerely yours, “WOODROW WILSON."
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