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LATEST CABLES.
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AMERICA & INTERNATIONAL
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TERMS ON WHICH AMERICA WILL CO-OPERATE.
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The terms on
WARRINGTON. May 1st.
which American parti- cipation in the international discussion might be secured is indicated in a state. ment by officials who are in close to with the Administration, namely, that the United States is willing to join the other anticus in working out plans for restoration if the Government is coc- vinced that political subjets will be barred.
TRE HONOKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 23RD,
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"S.OS" MESSAGES BRING
ASSISTANCE.
FAR
LATER.
Atmospheric conditions favouring wire.
EASTERN CABLE
NEWS.
[TROUGH RUTEE'S AGENET.}
MANCHURIA'S
loss commutention, the Egy's "S.O.S." THE “DONGOLA'S” ACCIDENTtion by Chang Teo-lin of the independence
INDEPENDENCE. DECLARATION BY COUNT UCHIDA. With reference to the alleged docfara.
of the Three Eastern Provinces, Count Uchida, Japan Minister of Foreign Affairs, made the following statement on May 16th:-
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OUR LONDON LETTER. GOVERNMENT AND THE SHORTAGE
OF HOUSES.
THE KING'S 'OBJECT LESSON IN ECONOMY. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
LONDON, April 18th. THE COUÊ CRAZE.
OPINION AND THE CONFERENCE,
While nobody voitures to prodiet what may be the outcome of the Genoa Conference everybody doubts whether it can erer produce anything practical. The refusal of the United States to take part. and the French in the role of passiva resister must seriously discount the utility I was picked up by numerous vessels, sotne
CAUSE OF THE COLLISION.
of the meeting. Apart from the Coalition nearing Tymouth and others in the
newspapers, the general attitude is to poka SHANGHAI, May 2nd.
fun at this assembly of delegates from 37 vicinity of the disaster. The latter, aå
The chief topic in London drawing rooms nations. The accredited representatives to The Captain of the Kumann Maru
is the wonder working of the Frosch healer: the Conference number 1,000, and they well as several French warships which
"There can be no reason why the posi- or paychologist, as he is called, M. Emil put out from Brest, rushed to the scene, admits responsibility for the collision
The Kumano duration of the Japanese Government in Man Cone, whose theories of auto-suggestion have are accompanied by neatly 1,000 secrt- but the severity of the collision caused the with the Dongüla.
"The Circus," and perhaps this fits the vessel'e speedy disappearance and pre- was overtaking the Dongols when she charin should be affected in the least become a fashionable craze. Inquiries for aries, clerks, typists, and other understrap-
suggestion in Grosvenor Gardens have been cluded the possibility of assistance, found herself too close. She dropped her because of the declaration of the indepen private treatment at the institute of Auto-pers. The Fleet Street nick-name for it dence of the Three Eastern Provincianaderable; but the Secretary has had to great gathering of the delegates from ull.
èlne could. although there is a bare likelihood that starboard anchor and swung round, strik- a few further survivors may have beening the Dongol amidships, the Bunga Nor can we are the necessity of changing give the same answer to every caller, No points of the compass as well as anything
ment is possible." hna been dry docked. Some plates above Japan's attitude and policy towards chance at all; nothing but collective treat
Though the rights and interests of Japan in Manchuria are very important to us, it will be remembered that the re- lations between the peoples of Japan and China in the region of Manchurin have of Inte been bettered more than ever for If, therefore, the lives and properties fully protected there is no resson why Japanese residents in Manchuria, will
we should anticipate any difficulty what It is to be emphasized that at all events Japan is determined to maintain strict neutrality and that Japan will never render assistance to any political party in China.
picked up
and below the waterline were stove in and a lifeboat was smashed.
China.
HEROIC EFFORTS OF OFFICERS.
The events followed one another with bewildering sperd, leaving the passengers VICTORIOUS CINALI TROOPS, with litik clear recollection of them.
PRING, May 21st. The first connected story given by sur
A message from Chinwangtao Jass even vivors shows that the Egypt was proceeding says 18,000 Fengtien troops have gone last fifteen years. Some officials are of the opinion that aing slowly and precariously for several Ruropan invitation to join a caferrate hours in a night-like fog. The majority
of
with a definitely definej) scope for the of the passengers had sat down to dinner solution of economic probleus would when a terrific shock shook them from receive a mere cordial reception than the their chairs, stunning invitations from former councils.
MALAY STATES PRESENT
TO THE “ZOO.” ..
ARRIVES IN LONDON,
LONDON, May 31s
several. This
crused a general hurry to the deck. The water was rushing in and a gaping hole in the side confirmed the fears that the Aided by the clin vessel was doomed.
list twenty-four hours, while 20,000 have northwards from there by rail during the detenined at Shanghaikuan. These from Hupeh and Luanchow have all arrived at Changli. Four small railway bridges have been burned this side of Changli, but the Luanchow "bridge is undamaged."
There is no doubt that the Chibi ad vance around the Fengtign right flank
ever.
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I believe this makes the thirteenth in- The basis of M. Cour's system is that ternational conference to be held since the imagination plays a profound influence end of the the war, and there is precious upon the mind and body. By an effort of little of value to show for all the talk and the will you can keep yourself in health, the resolutions. Is it surprising that people just as in the opposite sexse people who have are sceptical now about Genca? Moreover, nothing the matter with them sometimes big body of opinion in this country is Bolshevists, because it is feared that even a serious illness. Auto-suggestion is imagine they are unwell and end up with dead against any intercourse with the like Christian Science, but it has this the qualified recognition they will receive on difference, that while the two are based on this occasion will strengthen them in their
to suggestion from the observance of be any harm through danger of precipitatt the same fundamental principle, Christian position in Russia. Be that as it may, Science starts from religious faith and if no good results from Genon there cannot" physical and moral laws. M. Coué holds action so far as the British Government that there is no conflict between his theory is concerned, since any decisions that may and prayer. His formula simply consists be reached by our representatives must in repeating with conviction the phrase, be submitted to Parliament for ratification. The sentence on Ernest Teruh Hooley am getting better and better all the TRUK MILL-BOT TO MILLIONAIES, time in every way.”
Some of the doctors and parsont, ars at the Old Bailey which places him in "In fact, Japan. as a friendly Power disposed to be critical and frankly sceptical penal servitude for the next three years of China, hopes with all her heart that about auto-enggestion, and an attempt has like the fall of the curtain on a romantic But these efforts are rather discounted in in the region of speculative finance quite Here was a man who started advantage without any advantage towards advance by the known fact that a long list like Hooley. China, and which tend to injure the pre-of cares-especially in nervous disorders life as a mill-boy, and while bu
of millions. His father was working | moreover, M. Caud takes no payment.
lacemaker living a few miles outside Not- stand to the credit of auto-suggestion, and, still in the early twenties be had control
"A WIFE'S EXTRAVAGANCE.
tingham, and managed to are enough money to buy a few machines. The 00 worked as a "winder". From dawn till dark, and on Sundays played the harmonium in Mr. John C. Cottam, then a railway clerk, the local Baptist Chapel. Ond'day he met but later on well-known in London, and the
ses, the allicers made heroic efforts and precipitated the latest withdrawal. It the disturbances, which incur every dis. been made to reprosent 3. Coué as a quack, drama. There has never been anyone else
the great bulk of the human freight was got clear defore the Egypt finally plunged The collection "of animals, birds and down bow first, creating a suction and reptiles presented to the London Zoo-carrying down the w who were remain Jogical Gardens through the Prince of ing near.. Waen by the Mainy States Government arrived in London un the steamer Titan. The collection will be exhibited at the Zoological Gardens along with the Nepal ollection. Three proboscis monkeys and seven argas pheasants died on the voyage
EARLIER CABLES,
Notwithstanding her own damage, the 230 survivors and Seine · picked up French warships brought in a few more. Twenty-two bodies lie in the Naval Hospital at Brest The accurate death- roll is not yet known.
appears that the position which the Fragtien lenders described as being on the most modern principles was well plaaned to resist a frontal attack; but that the Banka were utterly neglected. This second hasty retirement from a strong position is regarded as indicating the inability of Chang Two-lis to cope with the Chihli Army
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stige of China in the eyes of foreign Powers, will be eliminated as soon possible."
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MOTOR VEHICLES IN CANTON The United States Vice-Consul, Mr. Ernest B. Price, reports:
ments.
Mr. Justice McCardie, who is a genial bachelor, can always be trusted to say something wise and salutary when he is called upon to deal with matrimonial cases, He has added to the general gaiety by his judgment in the action Which Earl Cathcart
WIS sued
for
WIE
FENGTIEN TROOPS BEYOND
The sale of motor vehicles in Can-215 for eight dresses ordered by the pair decided to turn their attention to con
The Earl Pany promoting. Their first effort was to GREAT WALL.
ton bas benefited by the street improve Countess without his consent. (The Egypt was scheduled to leave
PIXING, May 21st
In 1918 there were only 10 divorced the lady last February, and it ap convert the elder Hooley's little lace factory London on May 19th for Bombay and
motor-cars in the city-all owned by peared that he allowed her £960 a year for into a limited company, and, having put Karachi, and she was, therefore, outward
Some Chihli troops have reached £ust officials-and a few hundred rickshas. In her personal expenses. But she could not this through successfully, young Hooley bound at the time of the disaster.
He hired a magnificent suite of rooms at She 33 vesanl of 8.000 and has chow and the main force also continues July, 1991, there were 150 motor cars, scrape along on this miserable pittance, as came up to London.
motor cycles, and approdmately ty. evidence that when the Earl placed £1,500 the Midland Grand Hotel, St. Paneras, and..
2,000 was plainly seen by the fact disclosed in been in the Far East twice, we' be: to progress towards Luanchow.
rickshas registered with the F. & 0. "EGYPT FOUNDERS, fieve, in recent years. She came out t
The motor-cars include 18 auto-buses the end of last year, and left Hongkong for London in January. Since then sho
don run. ED.]
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With the exception of a small portion, operated by the Canton Tramway Co.. I to her credit at the bank she spent it all in in a few months was fairly launched on the COLLIDES WITH FRENCH STEAMER bas apparently been on the Bombay-Lon-aly the Fenghien forces have gone beyond pending the building of the street raif- tan daya-at the rate of £160 a day—and sea of high finanec. Inaide two years he
IN DENSE FOG.
VESSEL SINKS IN TWENTY MINCTES.
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15 FASSENGKES AND HO CRAW MISSING.
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BELFAST'S REIGN OF TERROR WOMEN ATTACKED IN THEIR HOMES.
money.
with a total capital of 18 millions sterling. It way system, for which the company has then came to him and demanded more broke all records by Boating 26 companies, |the Great Wall and it deems as if General the franchise. All motor cars in Canton,
Deciding in the Earl's favour, Mr. Justice was said that his profit on the flotation so far as can be ascertained, are of Ameri Wu Pei Fu intends to clear this region.
can manufacture: unfortunately, most of MeCardie laid it down that a wife must not of the Danlop Tyre Company was 1
ciers; aristocrats, manufacturers and scores It is unofficially reported that Eso, Shib them are second-hand None of the so- pledge her husband's credit. It is for the millions. He kept open house, and finan called garagen, of which there are now husband," he said, not for the wife, or a Chazy has requested General Chang T, are equipped to supply spare parts jury, to fix the scale or standard of the of others who were not so rich that they
a bit more their pile waited UN the magician. Lin to immediately rotira to Mukden and or to do repair work except of the very social life of the family." He quoted a did not wish to add LONDON. May 21st
eimplest nature.
quaint judicial ruling dating back many there await developments, which might
Since January 1st. 1920, the city of centuries which says, "He (the husband) When he gave a service of gold "Com- must provide her with necessary meal and munion plate to St. Paul's Cathedral the be more favourable for Chiang Tao Lin Canton has made considerable progress in
street building. Prior to that date Cis-medicine, but the wife shall not be her own public were enchanted. Then came the ton had only 8 miles of streets over which than his present position.
Losos. May 21st.
Shooting, incendiarism, and bombings Lloyds ngent at Brest reports:-The made the week-end at Belfast one of the P. & O. liner Egypt, from London to most terrible than his been experience
billed, making thirty-two Bombay, with mails and passengers, and Nine were the French steamer Seine collided. The shot dead within a week, exclusive off former was sunk and the latter badly those in hospital with gunshot wounds.
damaged. Part of the crew and pass: 12- gers were landed here.
SHANGHAI VOLUNTEERS.
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The
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The gist of it is that a wife must not 8Lceed a fair allowance, and the onus of proving that a husband is responsible for goods supplied falls on the creditor. The decision will serve as a useful warning to
tradesmen..
z novG PROBLEM.
The scarcity of houses in London and
to
Ersab, and Hooley filed his own petition. But the, "splendid bankrupt" lived in not uncomfortable repose till he began trading again, this time in his wife's name, and was convicted for fraud in 1919. The present sentence, again for fraud, will no doubt be his last.
ECONOMY AT THE PALACE.
& motor-car might pa.s.' None of these carrer." ran through the city proper, but merely the river front and eastern suburbs. along REVIEWED BY GENERAL FOWLER. The major part of the city, where nearly 1,000.000 peple live, had no streets suit The Fire Brigade responded to seven
SHANGHAI, May 22nd- able for wheeled true. By July, 1991, calia in ten hours cading at 3 a..
tan city General Fowler reviewed the Shanghai and concrete surfacing, nine additional had completed, except for the
There is "more than meets the eye" in Two bomb outrages were among the
Volunteers this afternoon on the Public miles of modern streets, varying in width LATER.
"Guamen" at.
laid outelanding incidents.
from 10 to 150 ft, with sowerage
ail parts of the country continues to the simple sunouncement that His Majesty The Egypt was surk in a fog, at 7.30
down the entire length and
running tacked the police, who were protecting Recreation Ground.
heart of the city.
In addi- present one of the most distracting pro- the King has been pleased to appoint Mr. through Jast evening, twenty miles from Brest.
the firemen coping with the outbreak, and ANTI-CHRISTIAN DEMONSTRATION.in, had 74 miles under construction: blems of the time. It is difficult to find R. E. Harwood to be Deputy Treasurer to
The streets are built опа
of accommodation in London; but it is even the Royal Household. It means that the The Seine took off many passengers and
a foundation armed man accosted! home-going workmen returned to Brest.
HOSTILE SPEECHES DELIVERED. crushed brick and stone, with a surface harder in the provinces. There was, of economy broom, is being used to good One was, and enquired their religion
of concrete, and are well graded. In the course, no building to speak of during purpose in the Palace as it has been forced SHANGHAI, May 22nd. Twenty bodies have been found. It is unharmed, while, two fellow-workmen
carryin: out of this work the muni- the war, and the Armistice found us with into use in humbler households by the" estigated that there are 36 victims.
were shot dead.
Over. 200,000 students attended the first cipality pulled down 5,000 houses, 15 city years of arrears in this respect to make pressure of circumstances. Mr. Harwood, gates, and 63 miles of old city wall, and up. Shortly after the conclusion of who began his career as a ly telegraphist LATER. Armed men entered the Corporation |
Store at a.m. and fired the petrol meeting of"the Anti-Christian Students led is 1,200 ft. of caus!.
Health, estimated that half-a-million at the Treasury, where he won his way by Lloyds agent at Brest reports that 215 stores end, other properly. of the crew and 29 passengers from the
A number of attacks have been made on League at Pootung yesterday afternoon.streets have been built on the site of the hostilities Dr. Addison, then Minister of at the age of 15,as been for some years houses were needed to satisfy the require an extraordinary capacity for figures to the ments of the working-classes alone. The position of Principal Establishment Officer "Egypt were saved.
middle-classes, as usual, were ignored, and Assistant Secretary. His task at the though their wants in the matter of hous Palace will be to carry into affect a numbar IMPACT HURLS PASSENGERS INTO
ing are great and urgent. As a result of of "econmies which the King has decided State grants and adrances by local autho upon, and a new Department will be created rities, something like 150,000 house have for the purpose, or perhaps it would be now been built, and Sir Alfred Mond, more correct to say that the Department who has succeeded Dr. Addison at the of the Lord Steward of the Royal Household Health Ministry, told the House of Com will be reorganised from top to bottom. mons the other day that the difficulty The Chinese constable, it appears at had been practically solved.
woman who was 'FUBLIC IRRITATION. tempted to arrest hawking without a licence. Whilst in the
There is scarcely any Ministerial utter act of so doing it is alleged that, he was ance which can be recalled of Ists which attacked by the two men
SEA
LATER Reuter's correspondent" at Brest reports that the Egypt, had 44 passengers and
290 crew,
The collision pccurred during dinner time in 'n thick fog. The sea was smooth with a slight swell...
The Seine struck the Egypt on the port side between the funnels, and the liner
ank in twenty minutes.."
Many were thrown into the son and clung to floating objects till picked up Jay boats from the Egypt and the Scine.
Fifteen passengers and 80 of the arew are missing, including the Ship's Doctor and the Chief Engineer. was saved.
PASSENGERS BECOME PANIC
STRICKEN.
BREST, May 2lat.
The Scine's captaîn, interviewed by Renter's correspondent, stated that ho marched for twenty minutes in the fog before he found the Egypt, which was
women at their, residences.
TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS.
HARD-COURT RESULTS..
BRUSSELS, May 21st.
The final of the World's Hard-Court
Other new
old city wall' and along the route of old The speeches delivered were extremely eatsis hostile towards Christianity and hand- billa denouncing Christians were distri-
buted.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS LOAN.
Tennis Championships, in which several TERMS SIMILAR TO N.S.W. LOAN
ading English and Overseas players participated. resulted as follow:
Men's Singles:
Cochet (France) beat de Goetz (Spain) 60, 26, 46, 6-1, 6-2...
Ladies' Doubles: Cochet and Borotra beat Mishu and Dupont 6-8, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3.
Ladies' Doubles: Mdile. Lenglen and Miss Ryan Du Mrs. Beamish Mokane 6-0, 6-4.
BRITAIN AND AMERICA. "MORAL LEADERSHIP OF THE WORLD.”
LONDON, May 21st. The prospectus had been issued of the Straits Settlements loan mentioned in a
that the terms are similar to the reont cable of the 18th inch. It is pointed out New South Wales five million loan, of which the underwriters were left with 94
per cent.
It is believed that the terms are part of the Government plan further to re duce interest on securities with a view to a funding loan.
[The previous cable stated that the lean is for £4,200,000 at 44 per cent, the price
ALLEGED ASSAULT ON A
CHINESE CONSTABLE..
Two men were charged, before Mr. Fraser, at the Magistracy, yesterday, with assaulting a police constable in the execution of his duty.
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The necessity which has arisen for reorganisation will be better appreciated when it is stated that the amount allotted to the King each year by Parliament is exactly the mme as before the war in
Mr. F. X. d'Almada appeared on be has done more to irritate vast masses of the spite of the enormously enhanced prices public than this calm pretence that the worst now prevailing compared with 1914. "It is half of both men, and also for the woman.
of the housing shortage has been disposed of said that the King considers it is essential He said that he had been instrued to quite satisfactorily. It is much as if a man that his household expenses should be cut deny both charges, viz, that of the assault and that of hawking without a licence told you in all apparent seriousness that down by at least £10,000 a year; and it He asked for a remand in order to ime black is white. The shortage of houses in will be the duty of the now official to effect a cross-summons against the constable for notorious and self-evident. But it was I the reduction HB. ` assault,
presume, considered necessary to make some statement of the kind in Parliament to save the face of the Government, and to explain away, if possible, the non-fulfilment of the soleman election promise to provide “homes fit for bergen."
The case was romanded, the defendants being reloased on bail of $25 for the woman, and $100 for the met.
SOLDIERS AS CONSTABLES.
49°N.C.O'S. AND MEN SWORN IN.
PROPOSED WORLD FLIGHT.
With reference to statements given prominence to April 27th that Major W. T. Numerous protests were forthcoming at Blake was planning a world flight on the the absurdity of Bir Alfred Mond's ass invitation of the promoters of the "Boss tion; but he made matters infinitely worse Bmith flight, the Manchester Guardian under- by telling a newspaper interviewer what the
Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P., presiding over's The Captain meeting held under the auspices of the
English-Speaking Union at St. John's Wood of isane being 05.1 Presbyterian Church, on March 24th, to
THE BADAK TIN MIXING. promote Anglo-American friendship, said
SCHEMER there were any influences from America at work tending to alienate us, and in a world so
PROMOTER AND DIRECTORS
During the week-end 19 N.C.Os. and Government policy is in the future. Until stands that the Vickers Company, which is disturbed these agencies found more outlets
ACQUITTED. than they otherwise would If Britain and
men of the R.G.A. were sworn in at the private enterprise can build workmen's closely identified with the construction of Magistracy as temporary police for & houses to let at an economis rent, he said, scruplanes for long distance voyages," is -Mertopeng, May 21st. America were not friendly there would be
period of four months. On Saturday 18 "married people and their families must be arranging to continue Ross Smith's project, suspicion between them. Out of that must emerge a feeling of insecurity, and from Orton, the discoverer of the Badak tin took the oath and yesterday a further content to live in one room, and newly with Captain Cockerel, who flew across that would grow some action to make our-mining property in the Malay Peninsula, 31 sppeared before Mr. Fraser, who married couples must follow the customs of Africa, as pilot "and Sir Keith Smith as
mado early next year. That meant preparation and Scarborough and Clarke, the direo administered the oath to 30 out of the the Chinese and other Eastera nations and navigator. The flight will probably to
31. During yesterday's proceedings Mr. | live With their parenta.”** - tom of the property, were acquitted on Fraser acked it they fully understood the For a millionaire with a lordly mansion for WILT, and inevitably engendered war.
One of the N.C.Os. made the most of the country this cynical way of discussing the Fifteen inches of min during one December last,
opportunity and asked the Magistrate if
housing famine in too much, and Sir Alfred night in Queensland, and 900,000 sheep [The Australian polion had a long the service was absolutely voluntary search for Orton before he was eventually and on receiving a reply in the afirma. has been so freely criticised and caricatured and other, stock were drowned.
minate's that he has sought refuge in the explanation arrested at a way-side hotel four milostivo, the N.C.O., after from Cairns, Nth Queensland. It was hesitation, said that he did not wish to that what he said about people being happy alleged that when Orton was arrested he be sworn in. He was asked to stand in one room was by way of a joke. But it was carrying cash and monition to the anids and the remainder then took the is a joke" without any element of humour value of £10,000.]
for the homelios,
then about to turn turtle. The water wan pouring in and the passengers were
selves secure.
preparation for WILT
Mr. Clynesthe charge of conspiracy to defrand on
panic-stricken. Aa the waves submersed declared that he saw nothing to stand in which they were committed for trial in questions stated on the declaration forms. in Mayfair, and a couple of seats in the
the desk, one man plunged into the sea carrying two children. The Seine utilis ed all her life-saving appliances in the ever thickening fog and remained on the
arese for four and a half hours
-the way of this country and America joining together in the moral leadership of the world towards peace. He wa ́ sure we could not hope to re-establish that condition of material prosperity which had axisted before the war without the establish ment of real peace throughout theworld.
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Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, the millionaire hanker and philanthropist, left taxable property in New York valued $36,257,000 (about £3,000,000).
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