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'HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1903.
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Watch C. E. LeMunyan's announcement in, this paper-Adut,
H.M.S. Robin lest amshui yesterday for Hongkong, and the Wuterwith left here al 8 am today for Mits Ray and Weihaiwei,
and for survey off Shantung.
ACCORDING to a retum submitted to the members of the Sanitary Poard this afternoon, 745 piculs of ribbish were taken away from the 1ill district between the roth and 17th inst.
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THE KWANGSI FAMINE. steady supply of rice going forward, and in this connection they were indebted to Mr. Fox, ADDRESS BY MR. C CLEMENTIAT CITY HALL.H.B.M. Consul at Wuchow, who had been most kind in receiving and forwarding all rice Ar the Chamber of Commerce Room, yesterent up. (Applause)" day afternoon Mr. C. Clementi, relief fund commissioner, addra sed a large gathering of the public, which consisted of the Relief Fund Committee, H. E. Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., Lady Bake, Hon. Sir H. S. Berkeley, Acting Chief Fustice, Hon. F. H. May, C M.G., Hon. G. Stewart, and others.
coming from the direction of Yeung Kun Wan's house. Frisaner was standing at that ime on the stone steps, and wilkęss was in front of a grocer's shop in Gough Street. After the firing he saw am Chai and Tung Cheong, followed by prisoner, coming out of the Tene. They went down Aberdeen street on to the Playa, where four of them got into a sampan. He could not say who they were. He then went away.
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Mr Ho Tung complimented Mr. Clementi on the valuable work he had done, and suggest. ed that the scheme of importing labour from Kwangsi into this Colony might be tried. Some European friends of his had sugges ed to him that the conlie, guilds here prevented By Mr. Morgan Phillips-The reason he the adaption of that measure, but his conviction did not give Information to the police of The proceedings commenced by His Excel
Was that not only had very few people in Hongkong was that he knew the men were lency introducing Mr. Cimenti to the meeting. Kwangsi ever seen Hongkong, but they could Chinese Government assassine, and if he had not find the necessary travelling money, 1 t done so his life would be forfeited. He was recalled the meter that had been held in the Le islative Council on the 23rd April last and
further suggested that a guarantee fund might afraid to de. He did not know the regulations repee what he had already said on that
of the Colony. If he had wanted to give in- he started to enable these poor people to come occasion. Since the Committee had been form-
to the Colony from Kwangsi, they to repay out formation to the police he had no time to da so, ed and relief distributed, it was decided that
of their wiges whatever amount might have The reason why he did not tell the passers-by would be well to recall Mr. Clementi to Hong been advanced to them, so that those who sub-that a murder was premeditated, was that he kong and ask him to state at a public meeting scribed to the fund should be at no loss. He was not quite sure whether the four men were what he had himself seen in those parts of
was willing, Mr. Ho Tung concluded, to ca- going to carry out their murderous work. Kwangsi that he had visited; and alter Mr. Cle-operate in any undertaking that bad in view followed them down to the Praya after the menti hnd furnished those details it would be
the accomplishment of this object.
deed was done. He did not see any polico agreed that everything the Committee had
about, but if he had he would have given in- done has been entirely justified. (Applause.)
formation. The first communication he had The Committee had appealed to the different.
with the police was when a sergeant asked him classes of the community-first to the Chinese,
go and identify the prisoner. A draft of a Municipal Ordinance for sub-and then to the non-Chinese ho owed their
Wong Sing, also a fisherman, spoke to mission to the Legislative Council grants prosperity to the dealings with the Chinese
having met the prisoner on various occasions 1.20 Tur population of Saigon has latterly su in-municipal franchise to educated socially people. I had appealed also to the al ruistic
regarding the hire of a boat, and during a Felin, of char ty which is found equally in the has fallen short. The well supply is also qualified coloured persons; this will affect East as in the West, and hich was impelled running out Lack of money stands in the about 250 Indians in Johannesburg alone.
by a divine feeling of pity and a desire to way of mending matters by carrying on ex- Lord Milner in addressing a Congress of assuage human suffering. Those who had not ensive water works either by damming a The Transvaal Municipal Delegates at Pre-ishscribed in the relief of the suffering people
eighbouring rivulet or by reservoirs.
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The Opinion, a Saigon newspaper, reports a remarkable instance of Buddhist fanaticisin there. A priest of his own free will burneil himself alive in
Temple the other day. A paper found on the spot contained writing to the effect that, by burning himself to death, e expected to reach high rank in the next world. FROM Canton we learn that in a small village on the North River, a man, his two concubines, and three sons were exei uted by the village elders for setting a house on fire out of revenge. The affair was the outcome of a family fead between two parties. After they had been execute, their bodies were burned, and the ashes cast into the river.
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LONDON, 19th May.
LATER.
Russia. M. Bagdanovitch, the Governor of Ufa, has been assassinated-another symptom of see- thing unrest in Russia.
The Tsar has dismissed Governor Kischi. neff for failing to check an anti-semitic out break in which a hundred Jews were killed,
THE KOSHING THEATRE.
His Excellency also expressed appreciati n of the valuable work done by Mr. Clement, but declined to support Mr. Ho Tung's sug gestion for the import of labour. It would deprive Kwangsi of those whose services would be required when the furvest came, and in longkang would create a demand for accom-
modiion that could not be met, In fact, the Government at present were at a loss as to house 45.000 people that will be turned out by the new Building Act. It simply came to this, that as far as the disbursement of money went, the committee would exert itself to place sub scriptions in the best possible way for the affording of relief, and speaking from personal knowledge, he had no hesitation in saying that when the different communities in Hangkong were satisfie their help was wanted, they would not have the slightest hesitation in ex- reading that help. (Applause.)
This concluded the proceedings to the public, and the meeting dispersed
A special meeting of the members of the Rel ef Fund Committee was held immediately afterwards.
conversation with him at Yaumati na the 6th or 7th January he was asked by him if he would assist witness in murdering deceased. Witness refused, and prisoner said he did not want witness to do the deed, but only to accompany him. At any rate Ah Sam, his captain, pro- mised, but he himself refused. This Al dam was also his partner. In this interview it was mentioned that a reward of $5, co would be given if Yeung Kue Wan was killed, and $10,000 if capured alive. A few nights la er witness mei prisoner, who said, "We have killed Yeung Kue Wan, and we need your boat no longer, you may go and secure, business." Prisoner appeared frightened when he left. Ten or twenty days afterwards he went to Canton, when be met prisover in the street in Honam on the way to the thras tre. They had a few words, and prisoner said he had not received the money from Lee Ki Cheok. Witness did not ask for money, Up to the present no money had been paid,
last year. Last month he saw him and gave information to the police, which led to the arrest. His boat was anchored near the Canton wharf and he pointed it out to Sergeant Sullivan. The Court resumed at 2.15 p.m. and other witnesses were called, and the case for the prosecution ended at 3.35 pm,
Mr. Clementi, who on rising was met with applause, prefaced his remarks by stating that he had seen it suued in the China fuit that representatives of the Chinese community of Singapore were credited by Mr. Scott to have contribut d $70, to and it was further stated that in a rept of hi he had mentioned that a sum of $40,000 was the utmost required to re- lieve the famine. He had made no such state. ment. He never mentioned $40,000 as being sufficient; it was utterly insuficient. He wish ed to appeal to the 'ress not to publish anony-against Lau Cheurais Li Rai Fan in connecHe again saw prisoner on a junk at Yaumati
mous felters without verifying the statements made in them. It would give him great pain if owing to a misrepresentation of what he said in a report carelessly printed in a paper any. ane should be deferred from subscribing money to relieve some of the starving people of Kwangsi. The prevailing famine was the result of the failure of three successive harvests. Mr. Clementi went on to describe what he had seen in the districts through which he had travelled, his account bein, mainly an amplifica tion of his letters already published in the Press.
THE GAGE STREET MURDER.
The hearing of the charge of wilful murder
tion with the shooting of Yeung Kui Wan, in Cage Street on the 10th January, 1931, was continued this morning before the Acting Chie Justice, the Hon. Sir H. S. Berkeley.
The Hon. H. Sharp, X.C., (Acting Attorney General), instructed by the Crown Solicitor, Mr. F. B. L. Rowley (Messrs. Dennys and Rowley) prosecuted, and Mr. T. Morg in Phil- lips defended the prisoner.
The following jurors, who had been locked up since yesterday afternoon, took their seats: Messrs, P. Dow (foreman) W. Nicholls, R.
There were no witnesses for the defence, and after Mr. Sharp and Mr. Morgan Philips had addressed the jury, the Acting Chief Justice summed up.
heatres un, secount of the daily increasing In Kweiping, he related, about 1,500 prisoners Saxon, J. W. Crouch, P. Hardman, J. A. T. their seats at 5 pm, when they returned a
lummer, and A. S. Anton.
At the Sanitary Board meeting this afternoon the following petition, from the indangers of the Koshing Theatre and and used to the President, requesting that the theatre may nd! be closed by the Board, was submittes:-
We, the undersigned petitioners and mana- gers of the Chinese Koshing There have the honour to say that we have heard that the Sanitary Board at a meeting held on the 8th instant, prop sed the closing of the Chinese
convicted of serious offences had been executed cases of plague. We beg inost respectfully lynt the rate of from 10 in 100 each day. Those
The examination-in-chief of Chau Wan was continued, and, in reply to the Acting Attorney say that the cases of plague are not at all charged with minor offences were liberated, caused by the Chinese theatres, and our theatre but those convicted to penal servitude were General, he said that while in the barracks at with the regulations of the Board. And we is always kept clean and neat in accordance executed, in order to save the rice for the pri- Canton several discussions took place regard- soners with minor offences. The bodies laying the murder. The prisoner was present and beg also to say that the tres are the only places on the ground and the people came and cut off of amusement for the Chinese inhabitants, and as already explained by one of the members of
the flesh and ate it. If the butcher-man got the Board at the above meeting, it is better to
there first he took it all and sold it at a profit. The Inwest estimate of people needing relief in allow the Chinese to go out and amuse them merely the districts he had visited was 319.00, selves than to be confined in their overcrowded
In every single district he visited the local
we have to engage many companies of actors best to relieve the famine. At the cheap-rice sales se great was the crush that many people previous to their coming down to the Colony
were crushed to death, especially infants carried and perform in the Theatre con ccusively, and
on their mothers' backs. In Nanning there we have to pay nearly half of their costs as
was cholera and further up the river plague soon as they are engaged; besides, there is
charge us the full rent even though the Theatre is closed. So also the house expenses. Fur the above reasons we will suffer great losses, so we humbly beg that the place shall not be closed at all. We will do all we can to clean
The jury retired at 4.50 p.m. and resumed
verdict of guilty and prisoner was sentenced to death.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA.
passed by the Empre·s boat which lay next to dwellings. We further beg to inform you that Chinese officials and gentry were doing their street, but fearing the presence of police he was is customary to represent Japan as having
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Loodon correspondent of the Manchestr r Dispatch) that there were many Japanese who were not anti-Russian, but who looked forward hopefully to the commercial exploitation of Russia by Japanese traders, especially after the completion of the-Trans-Siberian Railway, armed hers:ll to the teeth for the express pur- pase of fighting Russia, and it is the case that there is a large body of Chauvinist opinion in Japan which is extremely hostile to Russia.
Japanese trading company, bearing the name "Yokohama and having a considerable
sills. An even more significant indication of capital, has just been established in Moscow for the purpose of manufacturing raw Japanese
the extent of this new delvaopment is that a
Two items of news that have come to hand
when a resolution was submitted directing the monthly rent to pay to the landlords, who, wit was reported in he prevalent. Trade in Kwangsi outside keeping guard at the door. "He knew to-day illustrate both positions. A Russo-
An extraordinary general meglog of the Changhai los Co, was held on the 13th Inst. directors to take the management out of Messrs. Graves' hands and hand it over to Mr. Shekury. On this being declared out of order Mr. Shekury's name was eliminated and the directors were directed to band over the management to some firm or person who would devole more energy and ability in its manage. The resolution on being put was declared lost, 5 voting for it and 17 against.
ment,
C. E. LeMunyon as an announcement to
MUT make to you very shortly; watch for it.—Advt. THE Captain Superintendent of Police for warded for the instructions of the Shanghai Municipal Council a proclamation recently issued by the Mixed Court and City Magis trates at the request of a native official, pro- prietor of the Yử Yuèn Cotton Mill, in which it is stated that for the future the annual re-
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the place and make more ventilators to allow the all much more fresh air, and if you desire we will disinfect the hall with white-wash onCE every three months. We have already since the outbreak of plague engaged many more coolies to cleanse the hall daily after the per- formance.
Mr. A. Rumjaha minuted:~1 think bye-
was at a standstill. There was no money. The officials were collecting nó taxes: on the other hand they were doling out money; they had to He honestly did not think one could squeeze support larger numbers of troops than usual. another penny oat of Kwangsi for the relief of Kwangsi itself. In Kweiping and Kwai yun the distress was terrible: in Nanning and neighbouring district it was no less terrible. Proceeding, Mr. Clementi descri bed what was being done in the way. of relief measures by different agencies, and pointed out that the Hongkong Com
on are occasion he said that if he had had a good confederate to help him he would have accomplished the dead long ago, and there would have been no need for others of the gang to make the journey down from Canton. He had met the deceased several times in the
afraid to commit the murder. In the course of the discussions at Canton witness's deceas. ed brother said he went in the house first, and did the shootings. Fung Chung was also in the house and prisoner was with the gang standing that three of the gang had received the greater part of the money-the prisoner got Sz,c:D, witness's brother $2,co, and Fung Chung rank. Witness had seen two of the diplomas $2,000. They also got butt ne of the fifth issued by the Chinese authorities conferrin that rank. One belonged to his elder brother and one was in the possession of Fungpanese-Russian bank is being founded in Chung. He produced that which was given to his elder brother, and which was dated 10th January, 1901, It was sealed by the Viceregal seal and issued by the Acting Viceroy of the Two Kwang Provinces. It Chan Lam Tsai) had exerted himself in the test of the leader of the Ke Lo Society and
Moscow, with branches at St. Petersburg and other centres. The second piece of news is of a very different character, and is connected, not with the commerce, but with the politics, of Japan. Marquis Ito and the party of which he is the leader, known as the Constitution-
laws should be made for the regulating of Un mitee should aim at co-operation with the stated that Chang Tai On (the official came ofalist," do not desire to encourage the war feel-
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Baske: Festival are on the ground that they interfere with the business of the Cotton, Mill by impeding the traffic, etc. The Council regarded the issue of this pro- clamation as an act of unnecessary interference in local administration.
THE Chinese students in Tukio are reported to have formed a volunteer company and to be exercising themselves in military functions for an hour every day. They purpose sending delegate to Peking to urge the Government to adopt a strong attitude towards Russia, and they will also despatch sume of their number to Manchuria with the object of ascertaining the real state of affairs there. We take these details from the China Skimbun, which adds that several of the female Chinese students have entered the Red Cross Hospital to learn the duties of nurses, so that they may be able to tend the sick and wounded in time of war.- Japun Mail.
ernment.
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Chinese or other European committee which might be started. The situation in Nanning transport, but the prefect of Nanningfu had was extremely urgent. There were dangers in Promised that if there was any rice available to be sent there he would have it escorted the whole way by Chinese gunboats, and trackers would be employed to get it there with all despatch. in Nanning he did not know how
Mr. Lau Chu Pak minuted:—“The closing of this and other theatres will undoubtedly inflict great hardship and luss on the lessees.
after the month of June. If compensation is to be paid, the good done, if any, is not worth
many thousands would have died since he was there; but he should estimate thit some 8,030 the money spent. I am still of opinion that it who were being fed would have died from would do much more good by compelling the starvation. The relief would certainly have to owners or lessees to always maintain the prego on till the end of June, the beginning of next mises in strict accordance with sanitary re
harvest always provided that the next harvest quirements than to close them for a month or so. I submit that the Board should grant the for was a five weeks supply. That would was a good one. What should be reckoned application on the following conditions, viz, mean that 18,200 piculs were needed in Nan- to thoroughly wash and cleanse out the pre-ning, in Winesun 10,000. If they confined them mises once a fortnight, and limewash them selves to these districts, leaving out Kwaiyen one every three months, to keep the hall well and Tsam Chan, that would mean 28,300 piculs ventilated and to regulate the number of seats, which, calculated at 5, a picul for cost and so that no overcrowding will ever take place.
freight, came to $141,000, of which they might The application was forwarded to the Gov-
expect to recover $41,000 by sales. If they include the other two districts he had mentioned. the estimated sum required would be $210,750. Mr. Clementi proceeded to say that he had been unct with several objections since returning to Hongkong. In the first place, the Kwangsi Chinese, wasarcued, might do more themselves As already announced in our columns, Alva to relieve the distress; but they had done all the Great Company have arrived in the Colony they could, and could not doany more. Alsothat extensive tour of India and have some of the big firms in the Colony had after an secured the City Hall for five nights. During suggested that labour might be imported here. their short stay they give promise of con-US the West River there were thousands will siderable enjoyment to all who delight to ing to come. revel in magic and mystery, combined with mirth and music. The opening performance is announced for Saturday evening the curtain being rung up at nine o'clock to the accom- will be followed by Alva's boquette of my paniment of selected American airs,, These stical novelties and pure sleight of hand, including his original conception "The Miser's Dream," and manipulation of coins and unique experiments with cards. Then these is the Brigands' Box, a legend of Italy, where a lady is scaled in a sack, placed inside of a trunk, locked and scaled. When the box is opened; she walks on the stage and a gentleman is «ren seemed fastened in the sack. In part 11. Mile. Reox will read haphazard the thoughts: of any member of the audience, and subse THE KWANGSI REBELLION. quently M. de Varville and Alva will take hose present on a fifteen minutes' trip to Native reports to hand state that about two spirit land. Then comes the third part of the thousand rebels surrounded Chi Yuen City, an programme in which a few scientific experi- important town on the borders of Kwa gsi ments in ventriloquism will be given by Alva, and Kwei Chow province, on the 13th instant, who, by the way, has gained a great reputating and after a brisk engagement with the City for his skill in the art. The last portion of the guards were particularly successful in gaining entertainment is devoted to a dramatic illusion an entrance into the walled City, by the West entitled, "Se or only a dream, on which Gate. Two military officials, one of them a Mile. Reax takes the part of a beggar an't nephew of Governor. Wong, Chih: Chut of Alva is Mephisto. This is really, a capital Kwangsi, were reported stain. Over thirty illusion, and has always proved a good wind rebels were captured and instantly decapitated, up to carefully arra-ged programmes, Alva The rebels took away, foot, chiefly, consisting of promises a treat during the short visit of the clothing and grain, to the value of Taels 4005. Company in Hongkong, and, judging by the Reinforcements have been wired for, and seat reports of Indian and Straits contemporaries, from Wuchow: Nanning, and Kwcilin cities.. the entertainment is well worth seeing.
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In April the British North Borneo Company had sent up an agent who brought bach several hundreds of men, women, and children for the plantations in Bomen. It had also heen said that the Cantonese should viz, Kwang Yun Sing Tony Kwang Tsai E, da more. The Cantonese benevolent societies, Yuen and O1 Yuk Tug, affiliated with the Tung Wa Hospital ad already contributed 100,000 taels, and the distress in Kwanging province was another drain upon their resour ces. Lastly, it had been asseted in some quarters that there was a ↑ enrner" in rice in Canton, and in refutation of this statement the speaker quoted figures which showed it not only to be unlikely but practically impossible that, such a "roner' could exist. Even sup posing there was "corner" be concluded, it was absurd to refuse to subscribe to any relief fund. If the starving people in Kwangsi were being made the victims of speculators, all the more reason that help should be extended to them, (Applause.)
Mr. Gershom Stewart next addressed the meeting. He did so briefly, and said that from the statement furnishe by Mr. Clementi their existence as a Committee to relieve fimine had been fully justified. Their principal trouble, had been to secure assistance" for disburses finents, bodies, in Kwangsi and other helpers had now overcome that difficulty. Mr.Stewart rend, extracts (mm, a letter received on the 11th Inst" from Mr. Fre, missionary of Team Chan, which showed that the distress was most acute, The Commitler were, endeavouring Jo keep a THE Bear to drink in the tropics is the Beer Tmade in the tropica-SAN MIGUEL
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and that great credit was due to him. A envering letter was sent with it. Chan Lam Tsai told him long before of the receipt of the shooting of the deceased. When he got it his patent that it was to be given to him for the brother and himself went to the "joss" to give thanks for its receipt. When the document bad been read through witness asked his brother what the words "Tsing Lung Tsu" meant, and was informed that it was "chlef leader of the rebellion," and referred to the deceased, After his brother got the mank he was put in charge of a war junk and at the time of his death was still on active service. Between the
the prisoner at Pun Pu, Chan Chu, neat 19th February and 19th March, 19ǝt, ho mei Canton, where he was staying on board of a flagship, wearing a button of the fifth rank, and looking after odds and ends. About the 23rd August he saw him on board of his (witness's) junk. Since the date of his brother's execution, in September, 1921, he had not seen prisoner until after his arrest.
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By Mr. Morgan Phillips :--Before the death of the deceased schoolmaster he did not know Forestean .... the prisoner. Witness's brother was instructed. Morgan Phillips'.
A. G. Ward' by Li Ka Cheok in carry out the murder, and the first he saw of the prisoner was at the barracks after the crime had been committed He did not say before the Magistrate that he did not know how much money the prisoner received.
Kong Lau Ying, fishmonger, of Yaumati,TE Cocker G. Harting... said he first saw the prisoner on the Eth
C. Mittell January, 1931, at West Point in company with
H. Figge Chan Lam Tsai and the other members of the
K. Oldrop... gang. He met them again two days later at
E. Niedhardt eating house and, after taking zice, went to Ng West Point, and accompanied them to an
Swart Sam's house, and there met others, including Yeung Ching Kai, the captain of the native gunboat, Witness was asked whether he was going to shoot deceased, but he replied that he was not, despite the fact that he was told there was a reward of between $10,000 and $20,000 affered, besides an appointment as mandarin. He was told that the reward would come from (1,060 piculs of rice have already bren Acting Viceroy Tak.
G. Friesland Al-Bombach Prewitt...." A. Andt W. Pucher:..
that a cost of $8,613.18)
THE PLAGUE,
$15.53952
During the twenty-four hours ended at noon fo-day 14 Jorther cases of hubonic plague, making. 746 since January 1st were reported. Twelve of the cases were fatal, ta
SHIPPING AND MAILS:
Was anything
said as 16 why the shipped for distribution amongst the sufferers Acting Viceroy wanted the deceased kill- ed? Because the deceased was the Em- peror (or head) of the Weir how rebellion."
Continuing, witness said this prisoner led the way to Ng Lau Sam's house Regarding the movements of the men on the evening of the mu der, witness said they walked along Queens Road, Gough Street, and then turned into Aberdeen Street, where Chui Fook sided in front of Yeung Kue Wan's house and waited there 'till the plans were carried out., Prisoner walked ahead of Lam Chau, went tip a fht of stone steps in a lane behind the deceased's house, and Lam Chai and Tung Cheong went up to the stone steps of the Inne and after remaining there for same time, the prisoner came down again, and had a con- vereation." He heard the report of fireams THE Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer made in the tropics-SAN MIGUELS
EMAILS DUE English (Ghusan) to-morrow, Indian (Catherine Apcar) 25th inst. German (Zielen) 26th inst Canadian (Empress of China) 29th inat. The Imperial German Mail sa Zürles: left Kole wid, Nagasaki and Shanghai on 19th inet and may on expected here on 16th instr
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