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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1905,
Le Populaire of Nantes significantly inquires
Celegraphs he the victim of a derivniciation? Is
The Honghong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1905.
THE SANTENCE ON CAPT.
- BOUGOUIN,
the petty spite of Japan ?" Then again Le Petit Provencal of Marseilles saya- "How can one believe that a ̈ man (60
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We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expreaded by. Correspondants in this column.)
CHEAP SPIRITS
To The Editor of The Hongkong TÉLIGA," Dear Sir,—In the London papers la hand by yesterday's mail, we find a paragraph read- Ing
DEADLY DRINK.
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An earnest appeal was made in the House of Lords yesterday by the Archbishop of Can jerbury for the restriction of the sale of intoxi. cating liquor in West Africa He deals at length with the evils wrought amongst nutives by the deleterious stuff which was manufac. tured mainly in Germany.
One European after pariaking of the liquor was obliged to seek urgent medical advice. A
shed on December 17th last, in going over In our letter to the Hongkong papers pub the arguments, suggested to us by reading purchased in Hongkong and bent home for an alysis by the Government, we stated that," we know of many instances in which especially by cheap spirits has developed during the state Amongst Semitic races, drunkenness caused of intoxication into accesses of homicidal
mania.":
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AT MACAU,
'VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS OF THE
HEALTH RESORT.
keep some lovely women at Macao......Of courie there are other, but they are the exceptions,
Sauntering along the purliens of the Chinese quarter, the visitor is struck by the monotony of the shops. First conies an eating-house, Macao is a very muchly over-rated place, where strange and weird decoctions are com- In Hongkong it seems to be the proper thing pounded next there is a aamuhu store gåthen. to refer to Macap as the health resort" of the comes the pawnbroker's office. It is all in re- Colony, the lily city," the Monte Carlo of gular rotation, refreshments, drink, spawn. the East, the ripper's paradine," the fiome broker-efreshments, drink pawnbroker, right of beauty and of grace, the "Brighton or along the lanes. And each is crowded. Bo Blackpool of the East, and so on ad id, that there is a big overturn of cash in Macao. Consequently, if a visitor to Hongkong dares They don't put up big signs about "No chits to suggest that he is sick and tired of Hong- received" or "Pay to day, we trust to-morrow {" kong he is recommended to try Macao. Now, they keep bandboɔ canes and well the skin off as half the foreign population of Hongkong the depredator who tonders a chle Obe shop- seems to look upon Macau as a god-sent bless keeper away on the sands had never heard of
and squalling children there must be some new light. ing to husbande troubled with nagging wives the word "chit "-which exhibits Macas in a efficacy in the air of this Portuguese possession.
What the married men of Hongkong would do without Macao it is fearful to contemplate. Whenever the first breath of hot air strikes the city, the Benedicts cheer up like a lot of cock sparrows. They become almost junty as they chirp along the way. Freedom is at hand. the wives and families are packed off bag and baggage to Macao and for a little while the lorts of creation have a regular royal time; That is the reason, probably, that half the male element in Hongkong forget the hot weather in the contemplation of their bins. And the wives and families roast and stew in that
* THE CYCLE CRAZE. There are other sights in and around Macao One of the most interesting is that provided by the soldiers and sailors on bicycles "The cycle craze has just struck the Portuguese pos- session and the disease is declinating the Colony. Long, lean cyclists skirmish along Maceo's only road, the Praid, at 40 miles an hour. Lfficers of gendarmeria may be seen at all hours of the day preferably about noon- hurtling through he air, pedalling for grim lifa as if the specite of the East was after them. The Municipality, it is said, has dupensed with Praia Grande la now laved with the juicy per- the water curt since iba craze began. The suration of the cycle fiends. The dog-catcher is also out of a job-all the dogs disappeared simukaneously with the advent of1 bicycles. There is this to be said about the crate—it' lands to a moderate form of excitement and it
scrupulously honest, one of an integrity and honour unquestioned, could betray the hospitality of a land made dear to him by The sentence of ten years' imprisonment so many claims ?" Exactly, that is the point which, the Japanese Court has passed on Is it likely that Captain Bougain who knows Captain Bougouin, accused of espionage, Japan and the Japanese, as comparatively will certainly stir the dovecots in France. few foreigners are permitted to know them, The evidence on which the prisoner was would seek to act as a traitor to his second convicted has not yet come to hand, but if home? After a man has been thinly years the assertions made by the French press as in the East he has few ties in the land of to the character of Captain Bougouin are to his birth to drag him away from the be implicitly accepted, there is every reason scenes which have sunk themselves, in to believe that there has been a gross mis delibly into his mind. His hope is to carriage of justice. It can well be understood spend his remaining years quietly in that the Japanese nation, roused to action the land of his adoption, taking a by the dilatory methods of Rodjestvensky's calm, academic interest in the home country, fleet in French colonial waters, and the but centering his thoughts in the doings of
The statements made in the House of Lords | supineness exhibited by the French authori- his new heritage. One of the French papers by the Archbishop of Canterbury, therefore, bear
ties, when their attention was directed to the refers to the case of Collins, the British sub-cut in full what we said as to the danger of
partaking of such spirits, and in a way, also continued breach of neutrality involved by ject who was sentenced to ten years' im- bear out the fact that, notwithstanding Prof. the presence of the feet under the shadow prisonment for espionage. That was a clear Thorpe's opinion, so readily accepted by the of the tricolour, should have been galled and case, however; Collins was a spy puro and Colonial Secretary in placing it before the Legislative Council, what we said at the time | irritated almost beyond endurance. And simple, and he had never a ghost of chance as to the harmlessness of such drinks, and when they found, as they believed, a traitor in of acquittal. But Captain Bougouig was in their being us wholesome if, not more at than
aven of a place called Macan, simply be genuine spirits, remains unchallenged. their midst they would feel inclined to visit a different position; he was almost a Japan the point we took up contradicting Prof. "Out at the heels but in with the fashion
If further evidence were needed in favour of cause they believe they are in the fashion. the brunt of their anger upon his head. Weese in thought, if not in spirit. What the Thorpe's report as to the soundness of the is the feminine motto and they act up to it, interests the visitor. It represents the new era can only surmise what "has taken place, evidence could have been that sufficed to cheap spirits analysed by him at the reques! in the absence of the proof which led warrant his conviction as a spy it is impos- of this Government, we would find, it in the fact those who go to Macao. They can regale their of progress that has arrived. In Macao, it to the conviction, and the punishment sible to say. But from what we know of took place in London against publicans selling all winter with stories beginning "Last sum-
that following on the many prosecutions which friends and their meek and loving husbands should be explained, the 'ricksha pullers never i
run. They don't even walk-they creep It inflicted on Captain Bougouin. To under Captain Bosgouin's record we can only say spirits not containing the required amount of mer, when we had that beautiful house next implies great energy on the part of the visitor. is just possible to make a puller nervous, but it stand the position, it should be known that if he has been rightly sentenced to ten called genuine, the absolute futility of analysis the Governor-Gener. I's in Macao-etc. The You have to take the 'ricksbu up a cobbly hill, ethers, and therefore not being entitled to be that Captain Bougouin was no transient years' imprisonment, then Bennet Barleigh to establish the soundness or less of such, men-folks say little, but if they only started the then got it started with the puller between the visitor to Japan. He was one of the best can thank his lucky stars that he cleared out spirits, has been proved to the hilt. It follows real tales of adventure beginning-During shafts and while he is still dreaming, get a that Prof. Thorpe's analysis of the Hongkong my temporary emancipation last summer when sends the coolie lichter-skelter down the hill. friend to push it suddenly. Then the 'ricksha known Frenchmen in Tokio, In 1870 of Japan before the story of the Samson Spirits, must be taken with very many gruni
my better half and the kids, were at Macao,It is a mild form of excitement, because he was appointed military attaché to the and the negotiations with Payloff became French Legation in Japan. So high an public property.
On the subject, Ridley's Wine and Spirits - then there would be wigs on the there is always a possibility that you may The papers contain.Review prints an article in the current lasue green.
land in the sea. "Anything for a quier upinion was formed of his talents, that whening the evidence which led to Captain which may be of interest to the general public
life" is the motto of the pullers and they the reform movement came into full swing Bougouin's conviction will be awaited with from Prof. Thorpe's report. They may: A after the deductions that must have been made
The first impression of Macao from theive up to it. So that a cyclist who can't be seen for dust and a 'rickaka-puller who is a Captain Bougouin was engaged as an in-no little impatience; and the attitude of the first, Magistrates were inclined to accept blind steamer is hardly prepossessing. You see an somnambulist by profesion afford that pleasing structor to the new army of the Mikado. French Government will be watched with ly the evidence of experts for the reason that, old ruin in the distance, a couple of flagstaffs, contrast which is the mixed pickles of modern
having absolutely no knowledge of the subject a lighthouse, and a row of houses, that look life. On retiring from that position, he went into unusual interest.
themselves, they had but little else upon which like barracks-that is the famous Praia Grande business, and resided in the outskirts of the
to rely. Matters, however, have considerably from the sea. You leave that behind because capital, cementing old friendships and
changed during the last six months and the so- called other tes', the test condemning certain
that is only Macao's show place and people gathering around him a host of new faces.
spirits because they did not contain a cert.in must enter by the bick-door. Nothing under On the outbreak of the war between Russia
percentage of ethers, etc., has been so blown | a dake is allowed to land on the Praia Grande upon as to have become a most unreliable the result of the meeting of public foundation upon which to build up a prosecu- analysts which took place at the Chemical Society's Rooms on 11th January, to discuss the subj et brought to light the fact that, whilst there were a considerable number of gentle men present who believed in the accuracy of the test, there were quite as many who regarded that this meeting ha come before the notice of it as utterly worthless, and we may fairly assume the great majority of Magistrates throughout the country, and now tends to make the isten to the evidence of the chemical analyst with some impatience.
and Japan, Captain Bougouin was appointed A. S. WATSON & Co., special correspondent to several newspapers
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they could place absolute trust, whose dis- cretion was beyond praise, and whose rela tions with the Japanese Govemment were of the most cordial nature. As a newspaper [32 correspondent, Captain Bougouin kept copious notes of passing events. Although it might be forbidden to publish certain news- which was occurring on the spot, the facts could be collected and collated for future reference. Doubtless, like all war corres pondents, Capisin Bougouin hoped to write a book on the war, the events leading up to The outbreak, and the conditions prevailing in Japan during the struggle. At any rate 34, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, when the Japanese authorities made a domi
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A DEATH from plague has taken place at Man- chester, the victims being a sea cook from Buenos Ayres via Hamburg.
MESSRS, W. G. Humphreys & Son send us a for which they are the focal agents, le useful calendar advertising Jeyes' disinfectants
MR. Algernon Bourke says the Venetian wits have suggested a motto for Admiral Togo, "Togo Tonga Tutto (Togo takes the lot) *
JAPANESE gendarmes had already put down the ring between Buddhists and Christians at Nolmi, where Mr. Sharp would have been in danger of his life, if he had not bastened to Kangyengpo for police assistance....
ciliary visit to Captain Bougouin's residence they found a mass of papers and notes ready DURING the absence on leave to the neigh to be worked into articles for the press. It bouring countries of Major General V. Hatton, is easy to comprehend how people who are
C. B.. the command of the troops in South not newspaper writers and are not acquainted China will devolve upon Colonel C. H. with the immense drudgery and toil involved | Darling, CRE, from the 13th inst. in the collection of facts, might construe the
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it might disturb the sacred slumbers of the loungers on the 'rais. "So you creep along through shoals of stinkingjunks until an apology for a wharf appears. Three policemen, or gen- darmes or whatever they may call themselves, appear on the landing stage. Their moustachios are very fierce and their swords very useless. to silence; and they never do anything, being They never speak to one another, being sworn
paid to vegetate. They are kept as a sort of atmosphere" to the place; like the sincco digons of a templa gate.
"ALL IS NOT GOLD."
Further it has been established beyond doubt that the variation in the amounts of ethers
So a landing, is effecied. The rickshas are contained in young Brandies, admittedly ge- nuine and fim the same district, is simply very gaudy. Crimson cloth lines the hood ay of the finest specimens of old Brandy ob. The puller speaks pidgin Euglish-and here is enormous, whilst it is equally certain that ma- beautiful Brussels ca pels are under your feet, tainable would fail to stand the test of the a tip, he never by any chance has any change Ether expert. Then, again, the offer of for- sign chemists to supply ethers at
so you feel quite at home. Until the 'ricksha most mo- derate cost which will at once transform the starts, and then you forget the gorgeous trap- commonest spirit into Brandy that will meet pings of the vehicle. They know not the great the requirements of the Analyst, have even in Macadam in Macao-except, on the Praia, a greater degree shown up the futility of All the hills and howes are laid with cobble -analysis.
"We are glad to say that yet another nail-stones. Consequently when the 'ricksha casts and a long one too-has lately been driven off you come to the conclusion that it was a into the coffin of this fraudulent means of get good thing you forgot to take those liver pili provided by the Society of Public Analysts Afterwards you are inclined to think, that flver ting convictions, and inaṛmuch as it has been in the morning. That it is the first impression, themselves, it ought surely to carry great weight. It appears that on the 1st of March pills are not so very strenuous after all com lag the Ether value of Brandy," by Messrs. last, a paper entit'ed "Some conditions affect. pared with a 'ricksha on a rocky shore. Philip Schidrowitz and Frederick Kaye, was Of course the puller, knows or thinks he read before and afterwards discussed by the knows where you are going. He promptly lays members of the Society, and a report of the proceedings was last month published by the you down before the No I gambling-house of learn that the analyst in question analysed a houses in Macan. Each is the best; in each Analyst, its recognised orgam From it we the Colony. There are, it is sald, 19 gambling sample of Brandy which was unreduced and you are sure to win. The boss sees the
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THE PRAIA GRANDE. Grande, but it is a big subject-oo big for a Something should be said about the Praia passing remark. It has to be seen and viewed for a lifetime before the proper perspective is found. All the houses are at least between one and two centuries old-that is their chief re front. One of the gardens depicts a scene on commendation, Two houses have gardens in 27. a de est island—it is filled with huge boulders a of granite and flints arranged in that careless haphazard style which shows real artistic pez- ception. To enter the house an apprenticeship. in Alpine climbing is requisite. Even famour mountaineers have qualled at the prospect of Grande. The other garden contains two shrubs, negotiating the Materborn of Macao's Frais
believed to have been planted by Marco Polo time on t is hands. There are also two weeds under a glass case-"no admission except on business," is placarded outside the gateway. These weeds are supposed to be' two thousand. years old and are greatly venerated. The rest of the barracks—for the Praia Grande is just an if time and space permitted sa houte with elongated barracks calls for much comment a portico, for instance, is the beauty spot of Macao but people should see it for themselves.
MACÃO'S FORTIFICATIONS, ARA For the benefit of foreign aggressors it may be hinted that Macen is fortified. ne bir gun, wrapped up in a blanket stands sentry over the harbour. It would do great damage to somebody or something if it were fired, but gabody would think of such a thing. There interesting relics of the past when Vasco da -are-other-guns-on-a-fort topside, and being →→
polished and shiny with blacklead and elbow. Gama was ploughing the seas they are kept grease supplied by Chiness labour.
or some famous individual who had too much"
Nobody knows anything in Macao-they all mind their own business to such purpose that (NK some of them might be considered half-witted but they are in reality only communing with their inward salves. Feople in Hongkong are altogether to fighty; they disturb the repose
Tagalog-whatever that may be-so there is sidents there pretend that they only speak of Macao. To avoid questions most of the re
no danger of missing your way. Four hours.
researches of Captain Bougouin, his ample THE Asahi stated that it is reported from notes and probably comments on current Fukuoka that M. Czarloff, a Russian prisoner, events, as detrimental to the public safety. It has applied to the authorities to be allowed to is even comprehensible that the presence of be naturalized as a Japanese subject. Tho had been drawn direct from Bond, and found unfledged one, timorously crawling up the in Macão does more to reconcile the, Hong.
a mass of documents all referring to Japan's message adds that he has Y38,coo at
Chinese Bank. position and her resouces might lead to the arrest of the writer or compiler as a spy. But it is difficult to understand how a Court of Law in Japan could be misled if these were the only charges against the accused that he kept an extensive memoranda of political
e Russo- that it showed an ether value of 988, its
UNDER date, Saigon, goth ult., Messrs. Wm. G. Halg and Co. write-Supplies from the interior are falling off largely, and the few small sales effected lately have sufficed to barden the market, which closes with an up-
ward tendency.
kong resident to his hut on the hill than a year at Kowloon. But Macan must be supported. It is the Benedict's silvation; without Macao
alcoholic strength being 54.2 or 94.8. proof stairs of the den, and dons his No. I smile of spirit. They next examined a sample of the welcome. Be explains the simplicity of the rame brandy reduced in strength to 44 5 or 77 9 proof spirit, and were astounded to find that it game and tells the newcomer that if he wishes the ladies-bless 'em-and the youngsters other value had fallen to.66.5. We may add to gamble the whole house is at his disposal. would have to live in Hongkong all the year that the Brandy had been broken down with In the writer's case, the proprietor or caretaker round. With Macas at hand it is possible for the New river main water.
-it doesn't really matter what he was offered married man to get a respite now and then, The next ex eriment was the blending of to provide breakfast, liffin, tea and dinner, cold several Brandies, but only two together, which drinks from champagne to iced sarsaparilla, & CARRIAGE Accident, which may yet be at
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had been previously analysed, with the result
10 Viva Macao ¦ ·
Paris journals represented by the Captain, Sergeant Les placed three richsha coolies/quivalent to the theoretical morn of the Con- the rest of it for a week or a month. And all just this side of the junction of Wanchai Road
a
SHIPPING AND MAILS
affairs. La Liberté, which was one of the
that the blends were found to be by no means entertainments by dancing girls, cigars and all | tended with serious, itpot fatal, resulta, occurred admitted that the police found outlines and before Mr. G. N. Orme this morning on charges unexplainable had taken place with regard to the visitor would gamble a little but not too med in the groove of the tramway line, causing siilgamis, so that a marked variation, utterly for nothing, Naturally it was expected that and Praya, East, last evening about half-past six o'clock. It appears the off wheel got jam- rough notes on the war in Captain Bou of being in possession of property reasonably ethers. MARIE BRIZARD & ROGER gouin's house, and added: "The Govern suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully point of view, there is only one conclusion to all tenderfoots wig; and although the house be sudden slappige throwing the driver off the From a tride, and also from a Magisterial much; being a tenderfoot he was sure to win the carriage to come to an abrupt standstill, ment, moreover, seems convinced, without obtained, at Wanchai, on the 11th inst. The be drawn from the foregoing, and that is an was willing that he should win a little they box as well as smashing the axle wheel, and chance of dispute that the documents seized first man was in possession of a lady's belt, important ene, namely, that quite apart from boped he would not win too much. They have freeing the ponies of their harness. The driver
with silver buckles, and the charge being proved other considerations, the nature of an ether is
was picked up, in a dared and braised state, by with such eclat are nothing less than the he was seat to three weeks hard labour. The of a fugitive and erratic a character as to to pay some $10,000 for the Gambling Farm the major and some bystanders, and as he was bases of information destined for the greatest second was in possession of a gold locket, valued make its consideration as a test to purity and pay 48 per cent, to the shareholders, so still conscious enough to refuse to go to hos possible publicity." But that is not the aim at $6, and the third in possession of two silver
absolutely valueless.
they pleaded with the stranger not to overdo the | pital, he was removed to his house, the mafoo of espionage. The spy hopes to benefit the Masonic apron tassels, valued at about 16. remarked the result of the investigation was that
As Mr. Revan, the President of the Society, winning part of the game. Their generosity was and a number of coolies; taking away the 4 particular Government or faction by which The case against the second and third accused "very grave question was opened for the Mas overwhelming and being one of a party noted for cocugets" were and the costs, while the occupants of the four-wheeler, six frightened he is employed, and to benefit them to the were remanded for inquiries to be made into sisterial mind to consider in any case that in its philanthropic works, we assured the boss that females, had to Charter rickshas to get to their
volved the admissibility as evidencaof the other we refused to behave like other people from | destinations; exclusion of all others. The writer who the men's antecedents.
test. The authors of the paper evidently did Hongkong-we would not play, so that wo hopes to give his views the "greatest
not consider their discovery from his point of might not win. The boss was not at all happy view, for they state that this faclor of breaking possible publicity" is a reviewer, a leader AF the present time picture postcards are im-down "must be taken into consideration by at this; in fact be nearly had a fitnes or guide of public opinion, whose main from Europe and America. According to the them, the mere mater of purity would appear middle-class, Uniforms and fags are the ported into Japan in considerable quantities Shipper and Merchants" so that, according to One thing is peculiar to Macao-there is no object is to present his views to the Japanese pastal regulations, aft':postcards, in to be a consideration quite secondary to that of chief features of the streets, or rather lanes. world in such a form that they will com this country are required to bear in Japanese the use of a particular water, which, by the bye, (Our contributor must have had only a very
the possibility of a loss of ethers occurring by mand attention and gain some kudos for the characters the words Yudin kagak! (Postcard) might in other respects be most desifable. author. Le Pelit Parisien says of Captain, but on the imported cards the word is only To sem up the situation, we fail to see how Bougouin-"Several times he has sent us printed in Roman characters. The Osaka nay Magistrate, aware of the facts contained in
this short article, could possibly convict'a de letters and telegrams which were note Shimp says the postal authorities have been fendant for selling au impure brandy upon the worthy."
considering, how to deal with the imported strength of the testimony of analysis as to the La Liberte says "Captain card, whether to treat it on the same scale as amount of ethers it contained. It is important Bougouin ...sent us many contributions the domestic card or otherwise. So far, the in the highest degree, therefore, that in every We have still in the Liberté office imported article has had the same privileges prosecution such be brought to the notice of photographs and notes of Captain Bou-se the Japanese card, but the authorities haveThe hearing of this article on the reliability
the presiding authority gouin's, whose role of correspondent and now decided to treat those cards as letters, of analysis must be evident to the public, and EXHIBITED. Journalist is by them shown to be Indin faasmuch as they do not comply with the we would recommend its perusal to the local putable and perfectly legitimate. Le three-sen stamp, will be necessary in future, analysis as placed before the Legislative Japaneão regulations, and for loland postage authorities in connection with Prof. Thorpe's Journal de Paris asks Does not this Dealers in picture postcards have been advised and
Council in December last, das
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German (Prins Heinrich) 18th Inst would be modified after a better acquaintance Canadian (Empress of China) 74th inal.. with the "beauty spots" of the ancient German (Prins Sightmund) 3ist lost.. seulement.-ED HKT), Three quarters The Bucknall Linn sa Baralong, from Lon- of the town is a modern Alsatia the don and ports, left Slagapore on trih inst, and churches forming the sanctuaries, the other is due here on 17th Inst. AENEAN quailer is composed of floated anstrocrats of The P. M. 5. S. Co's 'sa, Korea, which left all nations, and this quarter never stirs out of here on 13th wit, ariived at San Francisco, her bed without pards of gold braid smothering its The E. & A. Ca's 21. Empire from Sydney,
destination, on Toth inst manly bosom. Of the ladies one-half the &c., left Manila at toon on 11th) juht, population la enveloped in black shrouds; the due here tomorrow at a pim. G its jewellery and bedecking itself with rings dan in arrive at Manila on 13th Instal skp.m. other balf seems to spend its time in counting. The P. M. S. 5. Co's & Chika with malls, &c, left Nagasaki on Sunday at 5 pm, and is and bargice. The second half is very fair to She is expected to arrive at Hangkong on 18th the eys and it must be admitted that they do' | Inst.
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