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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Loading Articles:--
Hongkong Bankruptcies. An Iconoclastic Display. "Government Servants."
An Increase of Salary.
Canton's repulation. Hongkong's Water Supply.
Hongkong Military Expenditure Hongkong & Whampoa Dock.
Peak Advantages.
The Kilt.
Telegrams
China's Protest.
Formasan Earthquakes.
Chinese Postal Service. Disastrous Explosion. Terrible Earthquake.
Disastrous Fire.
Chinese Merchants in Dificulties. Viscount Hayashi......
Mootings:-
The National Bank of China, Ld. Sanitary Board.
Legal Intelligence:~
A Disputed Account.
Claims for Money Leni.
Criminal Sessions.
No Books Kept.
Police..
Counterfeit Coins.
The Governor's Coulies in Trouble. Defective Moriar,
Rifling a Bluejackel's Pockets.
Blackmailing Women.
'Alleged Swine's Da
Stowaway to
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Extensive MorĻAnd Seizure.
Alleged Banknote Forgery.
A Row on a Tramcar.
Chinese Subridiary Coins.
A Gambler's Death..
Carrying Excess Passengers,
Miscellaneous Articles and Reports:-
"Hongkong Gymkhana Club.
The Loongwo Launched.
Our Naval Guests.
Drowned in a Reservoir. An Urgent Appeal.
Hongkong Volunteers. Exhibition for Visitors.
under the appellation of the "man-in-the street" will not even giance at it. Still there are some points which are of passing interest to those who care to delve into the mass of figures which adorn the report. For instance, there appear to have been 64 bank ruptcies during 905-a comparatively small number when we remember the in- ducements offered to merchants and others in Hongkong to speculate rather than to invest. These bankruptcies involved liabili ties to the amount of 93,125,657.21. As showing the hopeful spirit of the bankrupts the declared assets to meet those liabilities amounted to $1,867,768, 51-but when it came to realise those assets the result totalled $217,275.36 gbout an eighth of the estimat.
amounting to nearly a million dollars. He declared that his assis were a clear million and more, but when it came to realise his property the result was but thirty thousand dollars, so that, unless we read the figures wrongly, he overestimated his assets by a million dollars. In the words of a well-known Hongkong financier-"He must have been a litery gent." It appears that there were 427 actions on the Original Jurisdiction roll at the beginning of the year and 154 had to be carried over to this year.
The amount involved was $7,845,780 and the debts and damages re covered amounted to $2,651,983. The number of actions instituted in Summary Jurisdiction was 1,889 during the year 1905, and 394 were brought forward from 1904. Of these, 1,663 were disposed of, 757 being settled or withdrawn before trial, and 394 being struck out of the cause-book as having heca standing over generally for more than à year, teaving a balance of 226. The total amount involved was $749,169.34. It is extremely interesting to observe that since the Companies Ordinance came into force, in 1865, no less than 462 companies have been registered in Hongkong representing an aggregate capital of $214,794,308. Some of the companies have faded away and gradu ally died, others were still-born, and atthe end of last year there were only 254 of the original 462 on the register. Nevertheless, the number of companies in existence which have availed themselves of the Hongkong Ordinance is quite respectable, their ag gregate capital representing $128,558,501. Last year 38 companies were registered, from which a revenue of $7,583 was derived by the Government. On the whole, the Registrat's report for the year has its points of interest, but taking it on the whole, and neglecting for the nonce its importance as an official survey, it would make capital reading for those who desire a sedative.
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prices settled, the greatest tribulation of all "quisites ? And what is to become of His CANTON'S POPULATION. times of drought, when the water supply is. limited to a short period every day, all the occurred when the Jadies entered upon the Excellency when he desires to take a trip to task of what is facetiously described as the New Territories if his coolies are not to
Recently, Mr. Henry Humphreys called tenants of a house in Wanchai, for instance, simple addition... Far from simple did these get reasonable refreshments-meaning sam the attention of the Sanitary Board to the start to refill their jars and other utensils unfortunate ladies from the Peak find the shu-after toiling and moiling in the heat of desirability of securing the returns of the simultaneously. Naturally, there is a greater addition of a few figures. They strove and the sun? Of course, there is the further rate of mortality per mille in Macao und flow of water through the pipes on the laboured as probably few of them bare done question what would become excel Canton, the object being to discover, if pos- basement, with the result that occupiers for many a day. They tried it standing, lency if they did get refreshment.' onsible, in what degree Hongkong was affected on the first and second floors have to sitting and kneeling; they would have tried such excursions, but that point does enter
by the prevalence of disease in these ports. await the pleasure of their under neigh it flat on the ground if it had not been so into the present discussion. Meanwale the had been suggested that plague in Canton hours before the full rush of water Indeed, in public; they tried it mentally and they tried eight coolies are endeavouring to reconstruct was by no means so serious as several obreaches the higher level. it by little shouts, and still two and twn their idea of the eternal verifies.
servers had sought to contend, and that de- some houses, the flow to the upper storey spite the lack of proper sanitary measures is wholly cut off until the needs of would make five. They got different totals
the capital of Southern China was in a com-
the basement have beco supplied, and on each occasion; they proved their sums by every known and conceivable method,
paratively healthy condition. The most frequently but little time is left for those on and by sume methods that were weirdly
diverse opinions prevail où this point, and the upper floors to provide for the domestic,
Finally, they gave up the attempt to get the
so lar it has been impossible to verify them wants of the day. It may be that in the original, and still the total kept on changing.
Many people in Hongkong are quite con
one way or the other. As for Macao, week- future the reservoirs of the Colony will be of correct answer as a dismal failure, and the vinced that if we had a municipal council ly bulletins are issued on the subject, with sufficient capacity to ensure a continuous judge had to announce that not one of the all the ills. from which we suffer at present,
the result that a" comparative statement on supply of water,all the year round, but that A noteworthy accounts had been correctly added up including a limited water supply and the the existence of disease and the mortality time is still far distant. How these ladies mange to keep a check plague, would be banished to regions 11-
statistics in that Colony may be compiled, point is, though the supply period is restricted, but Canton is in an cutirely different posi- almost as much water per head of the popu an their household accounts is a mystery, known. They point to Singapore, which is They must be at the mercy of servants and blessed with a body styled the Municipal on. In the first place, no authentic record lation is drawn from the reservoirs in the tradesmen. They know nothing of figures Commission, as an example of local, not to exists of the population of that crowded city, short time when the mains are open as in except of the human type--and they are say parochial, government. But of late it and nobody has conceived it to be advisa ordinary seasons, when a full and continuous blissfully oblivious of market values. They has become questionable whether a number be to take a census of the inhabitams. Even supply is allowed. In the rider main dis were all born before the Education Act of citizens representative of the general it defurite returns of the deaths which occur trict, which embraces the area within 'Caine in Canton were obtainable they would be Road, Wyndham Street and Sands Street, of 1872 came into force and they have community can effectively manage the affairs never troubled their heads about it. Being of a Crown Colony, In the first place, try valueless, as a statistical statement in the the supply will still be restricted, but those unconscious of their defect they have abar they never so hard, they are bound hand and absence of any accurate knowledge regarding who have managed to eke out the quantity of water obtained in one hour daily will not doned themselves to an orgy of ignorance. foot by the Government. Whatever they the residential and floating population. Al- Occasionally they may wonder why their propose has to receive the sanction of the most every writer who bas visited and studied cavil at the extension of that time by another household bill is larger this month than it Governor in Council before it is carried into life in Canton has made an attempt to guess hour. Now that the rainy season is upon
st the number of those who live m'that centre was last, but there it ends. The worst of it effect, and judging from recent events their
us, we may take it for granted that there will is that this appalling and abysmal oblivion to duties are limited to the collection of gar- of Chinese activity, but their authority for be no futher stoppages in the free use of ordinary duty falls on those who are content age. It seems that our Southern neighbour the statements published has toally crum-water, and the people residing in the central or are compelled to reside on the lower has a municipal engineer with whom it is bled away when subjected to acute examina-section of the city may assume that in a few levels. If "my lady" of the Peak is befog well pleased. That gentleman petitioned on. One writer estimated the population more days they also will have the privilege of a constant and unrestricted supply of water, ged on the subject of vegetables the dealer for an increase of salary on the ground, of Carton in 1874 at 1,560,000; another in raises his prices, and those who count every apparently, that he could earn more in 1881 placed it at 1,600,000 still another, which is the best sanitary agent at the com halfpenny and do give attention to their private life than he did as an official in 1900, believed it to be 2,500,000; while mand of the Government. accounts arc also obliged to pay higher The Municipal Commission at once second others, have recorded, their, guesses at any prices. None of those who were present at ed the suggestion, carried a resolution thing between 750,000 and 2,000,000. Ob. the gymkhana will readily forget the scene that the engineer should obtain an inviously, while all are agreed that there is an when these ladies were in the throes of ad- crease, and sent their recommendation immense population in and around Canton,
Although there, has been a slight decrease dition. It was a saddening sight and a to the Governor, who promptly vetoed it, the figures given by passing chroniclers are
in the Army Estimates for next year, there is suggestive one. The committee is charge Porthwith the Commission resigned ey alasse, really worth nothing, for the very differences
no effort to curtail the expenditure on behalf of arrangements might well agree to hold er, at least, every non-official member refused shown in the estimates indicate that they of the forces in China. Estimates for the these meetings more frequently, if only that to serve any longer on a board which was are without official or authoritative backing.
Far East are somewhat difficult to analyse the fair residents of the Peak might have an without power or influence. The Govern His Excellency the Governor interested him-
for the simple reason that the establish. opportunity of exercising their skill in cal- ment members were, of course, obliged to self in the Board's recommendation and
ments at Hongkong, Wel-hal-wei and, in this culating the price of everyday domestic say nothing, and they performed that portion framed a minute on the subject, in which
case of the Garrison Artillery, Singapore articles:
of their task with a stolidity which is worthy reference was made to the statements ap
are grouped together in a fashion that makes of the highest commendation. The news pearing in various English, French and
it impossible to find out exactly how matters papers of Singapore have taken sides in the American publications as to Canton's popula-stand, but a general idea may be obtained of matter and a bitterly rancorous controversy tion. In concluding his remarks, his Excel- the military position in this part of the seems to have arisen over the affair. The lency wrote: "I think the above notes world. The total number of officers and Straits Times, which is not given as a rule should satisfy the Sanitary Board that even ilmen to be assigned for duty in China stands to wild imaginings, says; "If it is good en- we can get with any approach to accuracy at 7,233, which includes Europeans, Indians ough for the Colony to chuck 20,000,000 of through inquiries at the Chinese hospitals, and Chinese, and comprises Artillery, Royal dollars in the harbour and thereby spoil it, Kafony committees and coffin shops a re
Engineers, infantry, Army Service Corps, surely, it is good enough for the Municipality cord of the deaths at the city, these would Royal Army Medical Corps, native Indian to spend a few extra dollers on a well-tried scarcely enable us to estimate the rate of infantry, and the Chinese regiments. The and capable officer and keep 5 If the mortality per thousand of the population of total pay of the regiment is 11,860, while Colony can afford the miserable easily the city." The probability is that even were
the total pay of the four companies of Royal satisfaction of losing its best harbour, surely it possible to secure an official statement
Garrison Artillery at Hongkong and of the Singapore can be allowed the gratification regarding the population of Cunton it would
two companies at Singapore amounts to of paying a few more cents to retain a use only be approximately accurate. Canton has 10,300. It will be recognised that much ful engineer. We do not profess to have a large transient population both on shore of that sum, which together with various waded through all the ins and outs of this and afloat. It is visited by large num other payments reaches the total of a quar-
from the interior, re case, but the Commissioners have done so,bers who come
ter of a million dollars, will, in all probabili- and we follow them—for we can trust them."main a few days in the city and then ty, he expended in the Far East. The pay There is a high moral tone about these return to their homes. They cannot be and other expenses of the Indian troops in philippics which is most admirable in these described as, residents, and yet their presence North China is stated at £115,000-or over days of simple money-grabbing and hard fact, on any particular day when a census was
a million dollars, Under the heading and the ability of the Singapore writers to being compiled would affect the returns in Quarterings, land transport, remounts, drag questionsabout Imperial finance and the such a way as to nullify their reliability in and supplies," there is a sum of £54,030 Boxer war into a matter concerning the local respect of mortality statistics. In cities such placed against Hongkong, and that money, engineer shows that the education of the as Liverpool and Manchester where people we may take it, will be spent in the Colony younger generation in the south is not being actually reside-that is to say, have their to the benefit of coolies, tradesmen, and neglected. But there is ancaber side to this dwellings to which they return so matter contractors. It is interesting to note that matter which also deserves consideration. how far afield they may roam-the census the approximate annual cost of clothing, per The Municipal Commission have resigned returns can be accepted as an indication of man, of the Hongkong-Singapore Battalion because a gentleman drawing a handsome the city's growth and upon these figures the of Royal Artillery is sergeant, £4 145 66; salary-a salary far in excess of what he Registrar-General calculates the annual and rank and file, £3 14s Ird; and recruit, would receive in a similar position in Eng quarterly population. So close is it possible £7 45 3d. The Engineer services at Hong; land-believes that he deserves a consider to make these calculations that after ten kong and in North China are estimated able addition to his monthly or quarterly years, when another census is taken, it has together, the total expenses in connection remuneration, These representatives of the been found that the estimate and the returns with that branch of the Army being community of Singapore are filled with in have differed by only a few hundreds. It is estimated at £6,189. The aggregate dignation that their municipal engineer to be feared, however, that such a condition expenditure for military. purposes should be underpaid; they would retain him things will never be found to prevail in Hongkong and North China during 1906-7 at any price, and they have taken the only Canton so long as it contains a migratory is estimated at £503,174 or course open to those who desire to show population. The houses have been nun and a half million dollars. It is diffi their displeasure with the Government. In bered and, as Mr. Lau Chu Pak suggested, cult to say, of course, what proportion ed in the newspapers, had witnessed the tea! They objected to drink a weak decor the meantime, they have graciously consent. a census of the people might be taken, but of that amount will be left in China, but dilemma in which these chatelaines weretion of tea on the ground, no doubt, that ited to act on the Commission pending the aside from the fact that the task would be a there can be no doubt that much of it will placed when it came to the current price of was bad for the nervous system. As every election of new members, a concession prodigious one, especially in the hands of remain in the Far East, contributing to swell potatoes or cranges, he would have dismissed body knows, tea is apt to get on the nerves, which the Government does not seem to ap inexperienced enumerators, there is a variety the coffers of local concerns. The import the matter as of no consequence, for ap and Government chair coolies must.be propreciate properly. No doubt the people of of other factors which would vitiate the value ance of the Army to Hongkong is best On the 1th April, at Ningpo, the Rev.arently not one of the dames had the faintest tected. So they demanded samsl, which Singapore know their own business best, of the recorded number of people actually evidenced, however, in the provision which HARRISON K. WRIGHT and MRWINA W.
idea of the price of vegetables. They had is understood to be a somthing, syruppy but this wholesale resignation of scais in Canton. His Excellency has written "I has been made for new works. · In the case CUNNINGHAM.
never seen a market pricelist, or, at any rate, medicine, specially designed to lighten the does not strike the disinterested fear it is very unlikely we shall be able to of the construction of new buildings, etc., On the 4th April, at Shanghai, GEORGE had never given it the slightest attention, weight of existence. Unfortunately, they looker as entirely unbiassed. Would ascertain the Canton rate of mortality with the coolie labourer is bound to benefit, for FREDERICK MUTTON-POTTS, fith son of the
So it would seem that the only people, who met an individual who had no respect for these public representatives have resign any approximation of accuracy, as I believe under the command of a few Europeans who late Lipton Hutton-Ponts, J. P. of Firby Hall, do scan the fists are those who have no con persons. He actually required payment for ed had the applicant for an increase of that even the total population of that city is
may be military men or civilians, they will Bedale, Yorkshire, Esquire, and Mrs. Hutton- cern with the marketting. It is a fact his samshu, and very naturally the "Govern salary been a petty clerk, who had not known within a quarter of a million," perform the greater part of the operations in Potts, of Harrow-on-the-Hill, to ESME STUART, which can easily be tested that most men ment servants" asked if he thought they ate
wasted the best years of his life behind and that is probably the last word that can be third daughter of Captain and Mrs. F. Hknow the price of goods sold in the public dirt. They flaunted their red uniforms in
a Government desk for a miserable pittance, said on the subject for many years to come. Wallace, of Shanghai.
markets. They can quote the cost per his face; they pointed to the official crown which would be converted into a workhouse On the 7th April, at Shanghai, Dr. MARY picul of all sorts of vegetables at a moment's on their sleeves; they exhibited the frills dole if he held an unspotted character HONGKONG'S WATER SUPPLY. GALE, aged 65 years.
notice they can even speak learnedly of and flounces and furbelows on their nether after half a century's toil? If half a On the gth April, at Shanghai General Hos-the rise and fall in the price of bathbrick; garments; and finally they called attention to dozen junior employés had petitioned for Householders will note with considerable pital, WILLIAM CURTIS, aged 73 years. and as for tinned provisions they are walking the special variety of high-class Chinese a rise in salary so that they might forget satisfaction that, as the result of the efforts encyclopedias on the subject. But what which they used in conversing one with the the wolf at the door, and if the Government of Jupiter Pluvius during the past few days, is the use of all this curious knowledge? other. Still the New Territories official had refused it, would these public-spirited the Water Authority has decided to abolish The purchase of household comestibles is was obdurate. He admitted that he had quasi-legislators have resigned? Or is it the restrictions which for some time have handa of the mistress of the house-and she trated to that benighted region, and until may be, and, doubtless, he is a most estim- the exception of the central district, which has not the slightest conception of the pre he saw the colour of their money there would able man-is a member of the "hupper is controlled by the rider main system, with vailing cost of cucumbers! At the gym be no samshu for them. Being "Govern suckles" and one of the bon ton, and, there-u full and continuous supply of water from khana, there ladies knelt on the ground ment servants" the cight coolies could not forc, must be supported? Because the tomorrow, Those residing within the rider with a notebook, and they chewed their brook such an insult. They immediately Government refused to sanction an increase main area will obtain a supply limited to two pencils in vaid efforts to conjure up a picture fell on the samshu-seller and left their visit of salary, was that any excuse for the consecutive hours, between sunrise and of the market price column. In manying cards on his person. The matslied in resignation of the Commission? Had sunset-an increase of one hour in which to cases it was the jockey who supplied the in which the samshe was supposed to be con- the members been actuated by a Bense lay in a reserve. This concession on the
A RECORD. (16th April.)
formation that oranges were selling at three cealed also shared in the tumult and the of duty, had they been championing part of the Water Authority will be best Nobody would guess from the bald state- cents each or ap cents the cattle for the best poor coolies only desisted when they found the rights of the underpaid and underfed appreciated by those who are least able to
(19th April.) ment which is issued by Mr. Arathoon Seth, sweet variety. The price of such an extra themselves in the arms of the law, An juniors their action would have been reason- afford the necessary expense entailed by a It is with feelings of gratification aud C.I.S.O., Registrar of the Supreme Court, ordinary and unusual article of household unsympathetic magistrate sentenced them 10 able and even praiseworthy, but that the limited or intermittent supply of fresh water pride that people in Hongkong will note the that there was ever anything of surpassing use as the common or domestic carrot was pay a fine, and as they had not received public business of a large city should be It is a curious fact that anything which, fact that the largest steamer ever built in interest in, the bigh Courts of the Colony. utterly beyond the imagination of these their salaries, with exchange compensa-blocked because an official fails to get all should tend to dislocate the public service Hongkong or China was successfully launch, Figures have such an unprepossessing ap. ladies, who are presumably in charge of the tion, and were consequently unable to pay he demands is preposterous. Hongkong falls most severely on the poorer classes of ed at Kowloon yesterday. In every way the pearance that with few exceptions little at- menage of various houses in Hongkong, and they had to go to jail, as if they were com- may lag behind in some things, but from all the community. Yet it is beyond doubt occasion was noteworthy, for it brought into tention, it is to be feared, will be given to one lady calmly solved the question and mon malefactors. One may well ask what the evidence it would appear that the lack that a restricted water supply means in promiscace the importance of the Hong- his report on the doings of the Court during emerged triumphantly from her dilemma by is to become of the "service" if "Govern of a municipal council is not an unmixed creased expenditure for water carriers to those kong and Whampoa Dock Company to this the past year. The gentleman who goes giving the carrots to a pony, Then the ment coolies" are not to receive any per- { evil,
living in tenement houses. It seems that in Colony, and the credit with which it carries
The Wrecked Alta. Fatality at Chek-wan.
The 5.5. M. Struve,
Practical Sanitary Science.
Marine Court.
Negligent Navigation, Disregarding Harbour Rules. The Royal Hangkang Golf Club, Macao Noles.
Canton-Hankow Railway. Viceroy Shum at Waichow.
Shanghai Wedding..
Interport Yacht Races..
Tragic Death in Yokohama.
The Sale of Capitted Steamers,
Japanese Finance.
The New Japanese Petroleum Combine.
The Opening of Manchuria.
Singapore Chinese Awake.
Hongkong Military Expenditure.
Losal and General.
Commercial:-
Yarn Market.
Raub Gold Mine. Exchange. Opium.
BIRTHS.
On the 8th April, at Shanghai, the wife of R HARE, I. M. Customs, of a daughter.
On the 19th April, at Shanghai, in Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Lewis, a daughter.
On the 12th April, at Shanghai, the wife of J. HUIDEKOPER, of a son.
On the 12th April, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. CHARLES RICHARDS, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
DEATHS.
The Hongkong Telegraph
A sad blow has been dealt to those who wear the livery of Government House, and, incidentally, to all who rejoice in the appella tion of "Government servants." it is well understood by all who pretend to be acquainted with the official world that One of the features of the gymkhana on "servants" is a mere courtesy title when Saturday afternoon was the Ladies' Nomina applied to those whom the ratepayers have tion Race, and it served in indicate the fact the privilege of maintaining, just as the that the ladies of Hongkong are hopeless younger son of a duke is designated a lord, zanies when a question of arithmetic for no reason whatever. But these technical occurs. The event was sufficiently absurd in questions' aside, all, who have the glory of itself, but the spectacle of a dozen ladies cal- the "service" at heart will be pained to read entiating backwards and forwards, by means of the account in another column of the arrest their fingers and by the aid of a nibbled of eight coolies, who once had the distinc pencil, was irresistible. The idea was that each tion of waving their arms and stamping their rider should band his nominator a printed feet while bearing the burden of His Ex- list of vegetables which had to be collected cellency in the gubernatorial chair. Not in a basket, and handed to the rider, to only have these eight "Government ser gether with the account for the grous. To the vants" been arrested; they have been ordinary person that would seem to be less imprisoned, or perhaps we should say difficult than threading a needle, but if the incarcerated when referring to those who committee had searched the earth for a have been in Government employ. And more intricate, puzzling and heart-rending it was for a paltry, trivial, ridiculous device they could not have selected a better offence that they are now under lock and When the riders galloped up with their key-an offence which is perhaps no envelopes, the ladies were at hand to collect offence at all from the official coolle's stand the vegetables and they flitted from basket point. Only, the authorities in the New to basket with the industry of a green- Territories are so absurdly antiquated in grocer's boy under the eye of his master, their notions of right and wrong that a jest But that was mere child's play compared is lost upon them, and what may be descri with. what had to follow. By the rules, the fair nominators had to itemise the articles, calculate their value and add up the total. If Mr. Shelton Hooper, who is con- cerned about the market price hists publish
bed as a mere "frivol" becomes a heinous crime in their old-fashioned eyes. These eight, coolies had accompanied His Excel lency to the New Territories. After a long and fatiguing walk they were offered tea
on-
in
over five
connection with the new works. It is estimated that a sum of a quarter of a million of dollars will be required for necessary im- provements and extensions, and provision is made in the Estimates for the expenditure of that sum. Although the cost of the works ap pears under the Army Estimates, it is ex- plained that a considerable portion of the expenditure will be debited to the Admiralty. the military authorities are therefore assured of constant employment during the next year or two, and as the coolic retains in Hongkong the money paid for his services, the Imperial Government disbursements must eventually contribute to the prosperity. of the Colony.
Yongkang Melegrap outwith their province. That is in the camshu, but the chit system had not yet pene that the municipal engineer-whoever he been in force, and provide Hongkong, with The coolie labourers who are employed by
MAIL SUPPLEMENT, ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
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