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Show KIM LIST 1.1L;j . JUL Hi F Briitsh Admiralty Reports Loss 147 Irish Bureau Cables Loss 101. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Tho war department today still was without official of-ficial advices to change yesterday's estimate es-timate that 113 American soldiers had been lost Jn the sinking of the Tus-cania. Tus-cania. A press dispatch from an Irish port early today, however, indicated that tho figures of the Tuscania's survivors showed there were still 101 Americans missing, whilo tho British admiralty figures given to the Associated Press in London last night showed 16G souls missing, 1-17 of them American soldiers four officers and 143 men. There wero 117 American officers nnd 2060 men aboard thc Tuscania and tho admiralty reports among the survivors sur-vivors 113 officers and 1917 men. The war department's only dispatches put the total missing at 210 of which 113 are American soldiers. Relatives Anxiously Waiting. Although officials believed that thc survivors' li3t might come through today; to-day; t'aey admitted that there was nothing definite In sight which would enable them to relieve the increasing anxiety of relatives and friends. A cablegram received by the navy department yesterday announced that 76 officers and 1274 enlisted men of tho army had been landed at Buncrana, Ireland, that 91 soldiers aro in hospitals hospit-als in Londonborry whilo 570 officers and men are at ports in Islay, Scotland. Scot-land. Trawlera havo traveled over tho waters where tho Tuscania went down and havo cruised along the Irish coast without finding any traco of any men, other than those already reported rescued. res-cued. The Tuscania's Survivors' bureau bur-eau In an Irish port estimates tho American miBsing at 101. Official ro-ports ro-ports on tho circumstances surrounding surround-ing the sinking of the liner by a German Ger-man submarlno havo not yet been received re-ceived at Washington. Irish Welcome American Survivors. In Irish seaport towns tho Americans Ameri-cans havo boon recoived whole heart-Gdly heart-Gdly b,y the Populace and everything possiblo has been done for their comfort. com-fort. Two large detachments of the soldiers, sol-diers, aggregating moro than 1700 men, aro on their way to a concentration camp in northern Ireland whence after a period of rest they will go to their original destination, despito tho U-boats' U-boats' efforts. Approximately 100 American Am-erican soldiers aro in hospitals in Irish towns. With but scant hope that additional survivors of tho torpedoed liner Tuscania. Tus-cania. will be found, latest compilations show that 147 American soldiers lost their lives Tuesday night off the northern north-ern coast of Ireland. British admiralty figures give tho total casualties as 166, the losses among the crew and passengers pas-sengers being 19. ' BELFAST, Ireland, Feb. 9. Between 100 and 500 American soldiers from the Tuscania arrived here Fridaj'. They were met at the railroad station by a battalion of the. Royal Irish regiment, regi-ment, headed by the regimental band which, escorted them to temporary quarters. Crowds of citizens assembled assem-bled at the station and in the streets and greeted the Americans with enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. The survivors appeared to be little tho worse for their terriblo experiences ex-periences except for the nondescript clothing thoy wore. Many had on British army coats. |