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Lians, as a whole nation, to fight on. I speak of .vast losses. An officer with whom I talked while en route from Berlin to Rotterdam told me of his own experience. He was one of 2,000 men on the eastern frontier. They saw a detachment of Russians ahead. The German forces went into battle singing and confident although the Russian columns numbered 12, 000. Of that German force of 2,000 just fifty survived. None surrendered. Russia's deceit is believed by Ger mans to have been the immediate cause of the war. At the time the czar was protesting that he wanted peace, Berlin knew Russia was mo bilizing. Before Germany declared war Russia had violated East Prus sia. Germany had to fight and she will fight to sustain her national ex istence while a single German i3 left to bear arms. Miss Eleanor Painter, author of the above, is an American opera sing er whose home is in Colorado, but who has spent the last four years in Berlin. She returned to this country today to keep an engagement to sing with Andreas Dippel in the new Op era Comique. o q POLICE FACE A NEW MYSTERY IN DEATH OF DENTIST The police have a many-angled mystery in the death of Dr. Benja min Roberts, dentist at 2522 N. Hal sted st. Found dying in the bath room of a vacant house at 938 Fuller ton av., which he owned, with the gas escaping from a jet and a bottle of poison by his side, at first glance it seemed a suicide case. Further examination revealed bruises on the dentist's limbs and head and gave a skull fracture as the most probable cause of death. All blood stains had been carefully wiped up to remove fingerprint clews. His pockets were rifled and pocket book empty while the robbers, if they were the murderers, overlooked a valuable watch. WHAT -WAR MOVES MEAN ' By J. W. T. Mason, Former European Manager of the United Press. New York, Sept. 9 (11 a. m.). The fall of Maubeuge, reported from Berlin, indicates what traps en trenched camps are and testifies to the wisdom of the allies in leaving the defenses at La Fere, Laon and Rheims unguarded when it became necessary for the first army to re treat. Maubeuge is one of the strongest fortified centers in France, guarded by outer and inner rings of detached forts. Its fate is what the Germans hoped to inflict upon the allies since the war began. On a small scale, it is a reproduction of the grand climax aimed at by the German strategy. Maubeuge was not voluntarily de fended by the allies. During the re treat from Belgium part of the En glish expedition and part of the French force were cut off from the main body. They had to take refuge in Maubeuge or surrender. And so t&ey sought the protection of the great entrenched capital on the Sam bre. It has required about a fort night for Germany's new and unpre cedentedly powerful siege guns to compel capitulation. Maubeuge's surrender must mean that the German guns have battered the defenses to a pulp. A greatly su perior force of the enemy must have been waiting outside to' destroy the defending refugees within. The loss to the French army, If the German figures are correct, amounts to an, army corps. This goes some way to ward reducing the inequality of losses caused by the greater German casualties list during the advance to Paris. CLAIM MEXICAN RIOTS Laredo, Tex., Sept. 9. Whilesale executions of former Huerta army officers and almost daily riots in Mex ico City alleged by refugees from Mexican capital who arrived here yesterday. -.-BiM9re.Bgfe --- M.