The Daily News Batavia, Genesee Co., NY Tuesday, August 6 1918 CASUALTIES, UP TO DATE, TOTAL 1,213 Figures Concerning Americans in Present Drive. Number of Dead 586 Aggregate of the Casualties since America Entered War 16,409. Army and marine corps casualties in fighting on the Aisne salient made public today by the War Department numbered 498--358 soldiers and 140 marines. This brought the total since the toll of victory began to arrive yesterday to 1,213 and the number of all casualties since American forces first landed in France to 16,409. Three army and two marine crops lists were given out early today. A recapitulation of them is as follows: Killed in action, Army-31, Marine, 7 Died of wounds, Army-5, Marine, 3 Wounded severely, Army-313, Marine- 18 Wounded, degree undetermined, Army-7, Marine-111 Wounded slightly, Army-none, Marine-1 Prisoner, Army-1, Marine-none. Today's army lists contained mostly the names of wounded, whereas those of yesterday showed 459 killed in action and eighty died of wounds. These lists do no represent any one day's fighting, but probably include some of the casualties for several days. One of today's army lists officially reported Lieutenant Quentin ROOSEVELT of the aviation corps, dead and buried. Lieutenant ROOSEVELT was reported July 17th to have fallen in combat. * READING MATTER WILL BE REDUCED. New order to newspapers, designed to conserve supply of paper. * BRITISH MYSTERY SHIPS FIGHTING THE U-BOATS. Some Incidents of Successful Warfare. London, Aug. 6- In describing the work of British mystery ships which have played an important part in anti-submarine warfare, the navy correspondent of the Times reveals how a "woman and baby" accounted for a U-boat. The submarine ordered a vessel to surrender and fired a few shells into her. The boats then left the ship, leaving on board a woman who ran up and down the deck with baby in her arms as if mad. The U-boat came alongside the vessel and the woman hurled the "baby" into the open hatch. The "baby" exploded and blew out the bottom of the submarine. The "woman" was decorated with the Victoria cross. The correspondent also mentions the story of a retired admiral, serving as a captain, who placed a haystack on board an ancient looking craft. When the U-boat ordered her to surrender the Germans were astonished to receive a broadcast from the haystack. On another occasion a seaworn tramp steamer was crossing the North sea, when a submarine ordered the crew to abandon ship. So sure was the German of his prey that the bombs with which he intended to sink the vessel were brought on deck around the conning tower. The commander of the tramp steamer by careful maneuvering brought the submarine within range of his concealed armament, so that it required only a shell or two to explode the bombs and blow the U-boat out of the water. * TEMPORARY TENT CAMP ADDED TO CAMP UPTON. A temporary tent camp, to accomodate 15,000 men, has been authorized as an addition to Camp Upton, Long Island. The camp will cost approximately $50,000. Construction will begin at once. * AVIATION CAMP RECORDS VERY LOW, IT IS CLAIMED. A statement issued by the War Department sets up the claim that a new minimum record for losses sustained in training flights has been established in American aviation training camps. " The figures relating to the safeguarding of cadets of the new army training for duty overseas as pilots and observers," says the announcement, "are now on a par with, if not actually lower than,the percentage figures of this nations' Allies and are believed to be much under the figures of other Central Powers." American fatalities in training camps during the period from September 1, 1917, to July 20, 1918, were as follows: Officers, 74; cadets, 65; enlisted men, 9; civilian instructors, 7; total, 155. * submitted by L.C. Schmidt