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years' imprisonment. They must indeed he congratulating themselves that they did not recklessly break in through a back-window in Mr. Rek's house and steal a teaspoon As far as can be seen, the whole incident is now closed, and no attempt will be made to A. S. WATSON & CO., there is nothing to be said beyond that w sift the matter muy further. In this event
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dastardly outrage has been committed at a ridiculously cheap price. One point, however, shows up very prominently throughout the case. It appears to the ordinary mind incomprehensible that, no higher officials' in the Naval Yard were called upon to give evidence. It seems to
H.1.5. Glory comes out of dock at noon to-day.
At a recent art erbibition at Knais Lumpar, sighty-six pictures were exhibited, the con- tribitors including Sir Frank Swettenham.
Among the other honours conferred on the occasion of the Russian Easter, is the Stanislaus Minister in Tokyo. Order, First Class, for M. Javolsky, the Russian
Captain Trappel, Imperial German Nasy, the new Governor of Kinochan, and his family, left Games for Tsingtao by the German mail
steamer on the 30th it.
A decreo has been laadut Bangkok directing that in future every ovin turned out by the
TELEGRAMS.
"DAILY PRESS”: SERVICE.
[PRON OUR CORRESPONDENTE]
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
SHANGHAI, 21st May, 7:38 p.m.
AT LAST!
The Court has issued an urgent Imperial
Hung.chang to conclude terms of peace.
THE NEED OF MUNICIPAL FREEDOM IN HONGKONG
II.
IMMEDIATE REFORM OF THE SANITARY SYSTEM IMPERATIVE;
THE DESIRABILITY OF A MUNICIPAL (SUNCIL The correspondence which has appeared in the local Press on the first article on thie
leave nothing andone to prevent a passillo recurrance of plaguo. Let us congratulate the Government and ourselves on the result. It is before us-700. řeparted casos from January to May and eleven European cases in the lust three weeks.
Another important matter consoring \ the. Lalth of the community is that of the sale of articles andt for human consumption. I think I am correct in stating that the authorities (it
have been cheerfully accepted as a fact that Royal Mint there all show the year of the Decree ordering Prince Ching and Li also going on verbally amongst the community they believed the reverse, Whilst this somewhat Mr. Reex was in supreme command of all
matters connected with stores, Was this THE LEADING MANUFACTURERS 20. Surely there are in the Naval the case? We should be very surprised to
Yard meu in higher posts whose evidence was at least worth hearing. Yot neither prosecution or defence thought fit to call upon them.
We confess that we cannot
ÆRATED WATERS understand it.
IN THE FAR EAST,
only at our NEW WEST POINT
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Bangkok ors in which it was minted.
It is stated that the Corian Government is
but that the lean will be cancelled even if it be very anxious to avoid payment of any damages
in event of the cancellation of the French loan;
necessary to pay the compensation claimed.
THE COURT'S REMOVAL
stoppage of the Conct at Hsianfu im- The famine in Shensi has rendered the
possible.
GENERAL NEWS.
LONDON, 20th May, 2.4 p.in.
In the House of Commons, un the 18th ult.. Mr. Chuberlain answered in the negative a question by Mr. W. Redmond as to whether His Majesty's Government had sanctioned the importation of Chinese labourers into Rhodesin. A landing site for the Pacific Cabis has been purchased at Kelp Bay, Barclay Sound, Van- couver Island. One hundred acres have been FRESIDENT AND MRS. MCKINLEY secured. The work of cleaving the land and The bulletins as to Mrs. McKinley's greeting buildings will be immediately proceeded
favourable. The President with. There is said to be ample accommodation health are in the harbour for warships.
attended the launch of the battleship Okis, and addressed the workmen.
It is gratifying to note that such remarks ns we have hat occasion to wake during the past week on the subject of the sale in the Colony of unwholesome ani tainted condensed, milk, tinned butter and other We are now making Acrated Waters commodities, have not been without their effect. As we stated on the 15th instant, the Sanitary Board -had already made, a heavy seizure of condensed milk unfit for human consumption or for any other FACTORY, which is openly situated facing purpose that we know of. Some of this, as we pointed out then, was, sold to ice-craim vendors at the modest price of two or three cents a tin. For some unknown reason, however, the Sanitary Board was reluctant FITTED SODA WATER FACTORY in to prosecute, and a grave menace to the..........
the FAR EAST.
the wea, atd. is the LARGEST and BEST
health of the poorer inhabitants of the Colony appeared likely to be neglected by those whose duty it is to look after such affairs. We therefore put some of the facts before our readers. Since then the Sanitary authorities have taken the steps which they ought to have taken long before. The RECHIVED AS USUAL prosecution of one of the vendors of these
ÖRDERS. WILL BE
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tainted goods at the Police Court on Monday ended in the imposition of the full penalty of $100, and the destruction of the rotten goods offered for sale. Auother prosecution was instituted yesterday. We trust that these two prosecutions will be followed by others, unless the unscrupulous vendors of their own accord destroy the
ÆRATED WATER MANUFACTURERS offending articles,
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BIRTH. On the 20th May, the wife of A. VON PUSTAC Cantem, of a daughter.
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HONGKONG, 22nd May, 1901
Ir cannot be contended that the result of the enquiry into the vitriol-throwing out rage, the last act of which apparently was concluded on Monday at the Criminal Sessions, is of a satisfactory nature. A great amount of public interest has been aroused
· over the cüst, as is but natural.A crime which the Chief Justice on Monday des-
Awards have been made by the Royal Kamane Society of a bronze medal to Lieut. G. F. Youel, II.M.S. Wallaroo, for his plusk in recuing an A.B. of the annis ship from the Shanghai Biver, on January 3ed; and of a medal to Colour-Bergeant Whitaker, 1st Chinese Regt, fer saving a man of the regiment from the Peilo River, in August last.
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A Calcutta telegram of the 4th inst. says:- Considerable unrest exists in plagna-stricken villages of the Punjab. It is said that twenty villagos haybonded together to offer organised opposition to plague measures. Ono police- man hasbeen killed and hospital assistants have been assaulted. Two hundred troops have been' despatched in anticipation of a riot.
at the Admiralty:-Captain.-A. W. Carler, to The following appointments have been made
the Glory, as dag captain to. Vice-Admiral Sir C. A. G. Bridge, to late. April 24, Chaplain and Naval Instructor Rev. C. Moore, M. A., to the Palbut, to date April 20. Commander-- S. E. Erskine, the Alacrity, to date April 18. Sub-lieutenant-D. C. H. Dalrymple to the Talbot, so date April 18.
The Anglo-American chess match by cable commenced on the 19th uit, and was continued The British gunboat Lisurd arrived from on the 20th. The result is not pet to hand, the Swatow late on Monday night.
During the 24 hours ending at noon yesterday there were reported 23 fresh cases of plague (all Chinose) and 21 doatke (19 Chinese, one othor Asiatic. and one European).
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following duuation to the funds of the Hospitals:-Ho Ngok Lau, 850.
At about 10 o'clock last evening a fire broke but at 11, Beaconsfield Arcade, and in a short time the whole of the lower floor, which was used as e hairdresser's shop, was gusted.
During the week ending the 11th instant, a total number of about 5,585 Chinese emigrants landed at Singapore from various China porta for the labour trade, and about 2,108 pilgrims arrived from Jeddah.
Proclamations have been spread breadcut în
"last mail only bringing reports of the first day's play, when no games had been concluded. America bad only to gain the Newnes Trophy
once more to win it outright. The top boards on the British sitla were taken by Mekara, J. H. Blackburne and James Mason. The latter
well-known player has not appeared for England before, possibly owing to his being of Amarican descent.
There is no truth, says the Naval & Military Record, in the report that the King intends to form an Indian Bodyguard. The story appears to have its foundation in the suggestion that a number of picked men from the different Indian regiments should be sent over to England for the Coronation. Thess, with troops from the Colonies, will form a guard for the Coronation only. At present, at any rate, there is no intention to organise an Indian Guard, though it is not improbable that now
the idea has been mooted it will not be allowed to drop out of sight altogether,
Col. George Fleming, C.B., LL.D., who died
VAST STRIKES IN AMERICA.
It is estimated that 50,000 machinists and
men of allieri trailes are on strike to-day in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. They demand a nine hours' day, at the same wages as at present,
MONEY MARKET
Consols are at 94. Bank rate is changed.
REUTER'S SERVICE.
LONDON, 18th May,
A NEW CHINESE LOAN.
It is stated in the City that a Chinese lan
of sixty millions sterlitig has been internationally guaranteed, and is practically arranged to be irsued as soon as affairs in China bave quiotened.
Mas. MCKINLEY'S ILLNESS. Mrs. McKinley is better.
LATER.
THE KING'S. BIRTHDAY.
of King Edward's birthday was a misapprehen- The alteration in the date for the observance
sion, don to the King having directed the Courts of Law and Government Offees to close this year on the 24th of May. There will be no
other official celebration on that date.
SOUTH AFRICA.
The burghers are dreading a winter campaign in the bushveldt, and are surrendering in increasing numbers.
LONDON, 19th May,
important subjost is ample evidence that their difficult to locate them in this case) were in- evils pointed ost are well known to the com
consed because the Hongkong Daily Breas munity, if unapparent to the local Government, reported on the seizure of rotton tinned milk, and the vigour of that correspondence tends which was being retailed at a few cents a tin. to shake the charge of apathy preferred against The Sanitary Board declined at first to prosaente the residente ginerally. The disonsaion that is beans they thought that came within the duties of the Police. The Follos declined becausB
on the whole, substantiates the statements made in the first article as to the grievances of the poisonous concoction were likely to get too technical wrangle was proceeding the retailers the public are labouring ander. It is well the off free. The point has since been settled, pos unable to recognise the bitter feslings of the of a legal luminary as to the respective respon Government should know this, because if it is sibly through fear of further newspaper com- unable to realise the grievances it will be equally ment, or perhaps through obtaining the opinion residents who are compelled to submit to sibilities of the two bodies. During the last them. The Hongkong Daily Press and the week I have made a few purchases on Queen's China Mail hare comprehensively dealt with Road. I elected that as being the most im- the first article and while they are unable portant business thoroughfare. The results of endorse the whole of the statements, or my visitation we not favourable to that autho rather opinions, they acknowledge the charges rity which supervises the sale of provisions, for generally to be correct and without exaggera presumably whilst the Sanitary Board and thes tion. It is for the Government to accept this Polica are debating the point, some sort of unanimity of public opinion and proft by it. authority exists. I obtained a one-pound tin of The two newspapers mentioned raised certain batter for tan conts Made in Normandy " points concerning the possibility of Municipal the le end on the tin said. I learned indirectly government, which it is more convenient to from the Medical Officer of Health that shop- discuss at the end of this article, as there are keepers could not be prosecuted for selling that certain other grievances and abuses which need Normandy" buster because "It might be usel comment befere closing the enes of Hongkong's for labricative purposes." I have passed in zyme- misgovernment
ber of years in the East, always with Chinese machinists around me, but I never saw any use butter, not eronNerumady at tou coals a pound, for such purposes. I have known my house servante fabricate their throttles with my 80 couts a pound tin of butter. Considering that the purchaser is liable to be misled by the inscription on the 10 cent tin of butter, it might be so well to have it labelled with the chemist's familiar red-lettor injunction" Poison-Not to be Taken Internally." Since then I obtained a tin containing one pint et "Sterilized Pure Natural Cow's Milk, Made in Norway," with precautions (very assentis! I should imagine) to be observed in opening. tin is rusty with age, and the legend on it describes it as “a luxury with all kinds of stewed frui, and excellent for making ice- craina." This cost me 3 cents. I respectfully submit to the C.M.O., that this was not sold as a lubricant Then again I o tained for 5 conta a half pound tin of Potted Hum," "Made in the Argentine Republic." I also submit this was not retailed as a lubricant unless it was to enable the consumer to glido with ease from this world to the next. These with others made up my purchases. Unless the anthority responsible for the supervision of the sale of such edibles caros to open and inspect the same at a selected sounded spot, I intend to bury them. No doubt, as in the case of Jerome K. Jerome a cloesë, and the carcase butying ground at Kennedy Town (which is adjacent to the new Polios Station) the vicinity of the interment may sirn reputation in time promising baltis cart.
It may be as well to refer again to the absolute forde of our present sanitary systems. It would be more appropriate to call it a scandal, for its results are toe grava for it to be termed a fares. Within the last two weeks, the community hea boon startled by the occurrence of several cases ́of plague amongst Europeans, four having succumbed to it. The daily medical returns show that the epidemic is increasing in itsvavage instead of diminishing, and residents are con- fronted with the fact that the practical immanity which the Europeans appeared to possess from plague is passing away, and they souta lost as able to centenet this vila disease as the Althiest. It may be argued than to mention this fact is unwise and can serve ne unutul purpose, but, on the contrary, if Euro peas & through fear of their own safety will rise up and insist on the whole of the watched sanitary system of the Colony being remodelled and formed, saol action will hovo very valuable and gratifying results. Events of the lash two works have prorod it possible for any European resident to contract plague. That being so it is criminal to sit idle without being convinced that everything which modern medical solonce can suggest is being acted upon in this Colony to-day, note, to render the plass clean, healthy sad free from disease.
Is there anyone in this Colony who can allego contemplated by the present Government ? that such is being done now, or is seen being
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Modern, medical science demands that for a city to be healthy it must be kept thoroughly clean and in a perfect sanitary condition. This is accomplished by an appropriate and It will be admitted that the operation of an effective system of drainage, with a plon the Sales of Food and Drars Ordinance comes tiful of water and disinfectants --- within the scope of Municipal control, and no Hongkong is surrounded with water, and we Municipal Council would allow its town to suffer from want of it; by the preven be made a mart for the sale of provisions tion of overcrowding and the introduction of open space longs--in populons contres; by house-to-house visitation by competent in spectors trained in sanitary knowledge, who are attached to a large fairly paid staff, whose business it is to check abuses, remedy ovila, and see that the requirements of modern sanitary science uro falled and not evaded by the dirty, the careless and the ignorant. The people them- selves shanid receive every inducement to be clesa, The system of sanitation should be suited to the people and the town, and be under the direct
and Ermelo. The latter made an afterapt to 900 policemen in the Colony to look after the in sanitary science. If it is necessary to have capture the guns but failed. The Boers morals of the community, it is of greater retreated to Carolina.
importanes to have an adequate staff of sanitary policemen to look after the sanitation of the Colony,
ANOTHER BOER INVASION OF CAPE COLONY. Another Boor force has entered Cape Colony ander Commandant Vaureenan, and has reached Zaarburg,
OPERATIONS IN THE EASTERN TRANSVAAL.
The Boers with four guns thrice attacked
anft for human consumption. The oficials who now run the apology for Muncipal govern-. ment may disagree on this theory, but the public will prefer to accept it as bain 5 a fact.*
Reverting again to the evil of overcrowding, which prevails here to a greater extent than in any other civilised city in the world, the report of the Medical Officer of Health at the last meeting of the Banitary Board is conclusive proof, if any were needed, of the lamentable result of this state of things. The large number of deaths from phthisis cammod
insanitary conditions had been established timately associated with overorowding, and
beyond any possibility of doubt, and the morta- lity figures of the Colony bore out the state- mentPlaces which have been condemned over and ovar sgain as being totally uoft for human habitation have been copied under the none of the Police, who, when appealed to, said it was not their business. It has also been re ported by the Health Offers that the surfgoe crowding in Hongkong is worse than in my
cribed as a dastardly offence, meriting the Chibli, according to the native papers, exhorting at his residence in North Davon, on the 13th General Bullock's column between Amersfoort control of competent medies) offoors, qualified Dr. Clark to state that phthisis was ini
fullest punishment, was committed by two Chinese employees in His Majesty's Naval Yard against an Englishman, the- -Chief storekeeper in the Yard Corrosiva fluid was by these men thrown on Mr. REEK in a public thoroughfare, thereby disfiguring him for life, and seriously endangering his eyesight, though this catastrophe has happily been averted. For this abominable outrage the two miscreants have received no
the people to return to their homes and resume their ordinary avocations. Therefore they are in great numbers returning, and planting the spring crops.
uit. entered the army as veterinary surgeon in December, 1855. He was appointed staff veterinary surgeon in August, 1879, and prim cipal veterinary surgeon in June, 1883. Seren years later he retired from the army. Col. Fleming, who was in his 68th year, served in the Crimea in 1865-55 after the fall of Seresto pol and, in the military train, with the expedi- tion to North China in 1860. He was present at Sipho. Tangku, the capture of the Takt Forts, and the notions near Tung-chan, and at the surrender of Peking. For his China services he received the medal and two clamps. Col. Fleming, who was made a C.B. in 1887,
Apart from the 12 plague cases last week, the only communicable disease notified as occurring in the Colony was enteric fever, of which there were two cases (Chinese, one in Victoria), both of which ended fatally. 103 of the plague cases were in Victoria, 19 calside more than three years imprisonment exch with hard labour. It is instructive to notice
The King has approved of Mr. Oscar F. that at the same Sessions and on the same
Williams as Consul General of the United day, the 18th ult, on which they received
States of America at Singapore, Mr. Donald A. Stewart as Consul of Binm at Liverpool; was five times president of the Royal Collage their sentence, two Chinamen were sentenced Mr. James W. Murray as Consal of Siam at of Veterinary Surgeons, of which he was a to five years imprisonment with hard Glasgow, and Don Josie M. Zuniga as Consul Follow. labour for robbing a woman of two silver of Porn at Hongkong. bangles! We are aware, of course, of the
In a report on the German colonial esti- mates, for the year 1901, by Mr. Acton, second secretary in His Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, we learn that the estimates for Kinochau are. balanced at £552,500, being on increase on the estimates for the murrent year of £52,897, 101. The Stafa grant-in-aid is fixed at £537,500, at against 2489,000 for the year 1900. A redus- the sales of land, and an increase of £1,250 in tion of £2,500 is foreseen in the receipte from
the receipts from direct taxation. Under the head of non-recurring expenditure, the follow
LONDON, 19th May.
DE WET'S MOVEMENTS. The latest news of De Wet reports him to be trekking rapidly south past Boshof, with forty followers. He is believed to be again making for Cape Colony,
PROPOSED WAR MEMORIAL AT CAPETOWN. King Edward has become patron of a fund for the purpose of erecting a Cathedral in the eastern part of Capetown as a memorial to those fallen during the war.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not hold ourselves responsible for the cpinions expressed by our correspondents.] MUNICIPAL FREEDOM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY FRESS.”“ Hongkong, 21st May, 1901, Sir, Will not men like Hon. TIL White- head, Hon. C. P. Chater, Dr. Hartigan and others come forward, convene a general meeting of the whole community, and lay our grievances before the Government !
I herewith enclose my card. Thanking you in anticipation, yours, &o, se
MUNICIPAL FREEDOM.
traditional relative values of property and Attention is called to the sale by public person, against which Truth has been carry-suction at Messrs. Hughes and Hough'a sale- ing on a crusade for many years. But the rooms at noon to-day of the ex. Sobraon su she present-case is of a different nature. It is lios stranded on Tang Ying Island. We are obvious, we think, to those who read the informed that telegraphic advices were to hand account of the trial of YEONG RUN and Lo yesterday to the effect that the weather had Tsox last month that the astonishing light-dition of affairs at the wreck as when last been favourable which would leave the con-
negs of their sentences-for the maximum
reported. penalty is imprisonment for life-was to a large degree the result of the impression
The departure of the French mail Tarra wasing items occur;-£5,000 for the oraction" of a that they were agents of some one else. The deplayed half an boar yesterday (12th inst.), light at Tschalientau; and £15,000 for the prosecution fixed on Mr. GEORGE ALLEN, says the Singapore Free Press, to allow of the construction of a fosting-dock, the nosity storehouseman in the Yard, as having reappearance of two Corean plenipotentiary for which is stated to have been demonstrated, procured Lo Teo, through the agency Ministers bound for Europe. The Parra al in the interests both of the Imperial navy and of YEUNG KUN, to throw the certimately had to leave without them. They of the mercantile marine. Under the head of gharry receipts are the following items:-Land sales, were seen making good speed in a towards the Borneo Wharf, about the time that £5,000 (£7,500); direct taxes, £2,500 (£1,250); the Farrt was a mile or two cutside Keppel miscellaneous, £7,500 (£1,912. 10.): State LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT. Harbour Heads. The Oriental Ministers do grant, £537,500 (£499,000).
The recurring not know any language except Corean, so that expenditure includes :-Civil administration, The T. K. K. steamer Nippon Mura, with they must have had quite a delightful series of £6,133, 2, (£39,206, 58.); military administra: mails, &c., from San Francison to the 3rd inst. discussions with the local Kling eyes and the lion, £112,836. 28. (£95,220. 4«); joint erpendi will leave for this port via Inland Ses, Kode; via Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, anb Chinese rikisha-man, in their efforts to reach ture of civil and military administration. Nagasaki and Bhanghai on the 23rd inst., at the Borneo Wharf,
£70,180, 15. (£68,90%. 168.).
daylight.
rosive fluid on Mr. Rex. The result of the case at the Criminal Sessions was the acquittal of Mr. ALLEY, and the two Chinese remain the only known offenders.
The upshot of the whole affair therefore appears to be that for a dastardly offeuce où an English official, two Chinsamen are to get off with mild sentence of three
Can anyons state that such is the case in Hongkong to-day? Can anyone expect the sanitation of the Colony to be adequately policed and controlled by a stan of one medical offer, aitary surveyor, and twenty ingestore
of nuisancom? Is not this in the light city in the world. Yet what steps, if any, are of present disssss-returns a scandal of being taken by the Government to alleviate a malignant type? To support my position, it this evil Under the amended. Ordinance will surprise many, perhaps the Government only a certain number of Chiness are permitted itself, to learn that it now takes an inspector of to life in a certain area, but what provision nuisances two months to go throughly over was made for the tenants whose eviction his health district-2 duty which should be done followed as a result of the introduction of that daily! The salary of a European inspector, Ordinance Pe
with house allowance, amounts to Alés a month.⠀⠀⠀ In the zostter of Jinriokiskas, tha Colony of With this state of things transpiring, with Hongkong is worse serred than any other city Europeans and Chinese succumbing in numbers in the Fust. The vehicles are credely constracted, daily to infectious disease, with every possibility generally dirty, and are not to be compared to and probability of the epidemic increasing, our the public rickishas in use at Slugspors or in Government remains sung and inactive, dozing the ports of Japan. The conduct of the pullers over the platitudes recited by the official mem. cu the whole is abominable, and their behsvi ur bers of the Soultary Board, to be temporarily would not be tolerated anywhere else in the aroused when such members forget their East. Under the existing state of affairs, the official clothes in spasmodic barsts of common. públic riskisha-coolie is a master of the situation, sense and human nature. Dr. Bell thinks it and for impudence he is uurivalled. ⠀⠀ If he unnecessary to examine any passengers from wishes to take up a fare he will do s0, Canton or Macco: Dr. Bell does not object to and if he does not with towork, then he plague corpses being carried in a box through calmly site down or passes on, to the helpless basy thoroughfares: Dr. Bell, who is no indignation of the person desirous of engag doubt an eminent sanitary authority, says ing him. To s limited extent this, of course, so and that is sufficient. There is obviously exists elsewhere, but not to the soundalous no superior opinion. What possibilities exist extent ne in Hongkong. The coolies simply in Hongkong for su official with the courage do as they please, and do not stand in fear of his convictions! A few years ago when of any authority over them. Only a few plague was raging in Hongkong through days ago we had the amusing spectacle of exactly the same causes as prevail to-day the Deputy Superintendent of Polios pryss- numerous Europeans bravely risked their lives eating brickish-coolie who refused to carry in undertaking most undesirable duties. Several
Since the above was written, the Sanitary were arified They did so thinking that Board has prosecuted somewhat reluctantly, once and for all the Government would believo,
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