The Hongkong Telegraph.
NEW SERIES No. 8078.
CONTENTS.
Birtha, Marriages and Deaths,
Lending: Aritolea
The P. and O. Companya cer Mysteries at the, Sanitary Board. Railways Regarded as:Public Nuisances.. Property in Singapore. "Wajering" Places in China.
Telograma
Naval Reorganization,
Nailonal Debt Redemption.
Canton-Haskow Railway. The Shanghai Total.
Salt SupervisorA;
Hepth Railway.
Naval Commissioners.
Canton Salt Monopoly.
Salt Bereau.
The Loan Agreement.
Macko's Boundary.'
Meetings:-
Kulangan (Amoy) Municipal Council,
Ledbury Rubber Co.
Legal Intelligence:—
In Probate Jurisdiction,
The Basel dissos Libel Su't.
Writ for Habeas Corpus,
Claio by a Governess.
Ap Arliste's Clain.....
An Absent Defendant.
Money-lender in Cour
Correspondence:-
Oxford Local Examinations,
The Navy League.
Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports:-
Arrival of Major Goceral French. Orchestral Concert at the German Club, N. Y. K. 5.S. Kaya Maru..
Dock Danco..
'Boys' Own Clob.
Kowloon. Children's Sports.
Waterworks in China.
Notes by the Way.
Future of Rubber
The China Squadron, Open Air Frak Market. Imperial Maritime Customs, The Grave Question.* Chinese Protection at Ipoh. Salon Cinema Theatre, Sir Matthew Nathau. Marathon Reco. Opium-smoking in Bengal, The Rubber Market. Russia and Japan.
Volunteer Corps Orders. Rubber,
Canton Day by Day,
Two Kwang Provinces.
Education in China
Chiness Copper Colnage
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
Trade-mark Dispute, Japanese Fishing Schooner Wrecked. Yokohama Club Hotel. An Eruption in Japan.
Rubber in Tado-China.
"The Ill-fated King George.
The Rubber Boom.
Commercial:---
Weekly Share Report. Yarn Market.
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(ESTABLISHED 1881.):
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1910...
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tional balance in their account, in case it they were in competition. A Japanese dons in the light of day, We have, had far amazement at the pathetic foolishness of the causes abovementioned, investments in real. might be required in order to meat some company had just placed eleven steamships too many, 'hole-and-comer affairs already Chinese who are only now coming into step estate in Singapore were being checked, but. emergency, He was glad to say they in the trade between Japan and England without seeking for more felt that we are with modern thought und modern science. it should not be forgotten that during the i had not required that balance; on the and the Continent of Europe, They were becoming too squeamish) nowadays that we! We expect them to leap at's single bound the past two years à large amount of capital ha contrary, after charging their accounts Bot mail steamships, although they were cannot open our mouths in publla without barriers over which we crawled so gingerly, been expended in the opening, up of with the full amount of depreciation due excellent vessels, but they were given a shocking somebody?, However, the subject, almost in sheer terror at our own temerity, land hero and in the Peninsula for the £375.917-they were able to pay the subsidy of £35,000 a year,, or £20,000 unless it concerns the private character of and often actually in defiance of our own highly remunerative culdvation of sub dividend and bonus to which the proprietors more than the British Government paid to an individual, should be debated fo the inward consciences. We stand and preachber, sad lu the acquisition of, attractive: had been accustomed for a considerable the P and O. Company for their service to open, and even in the latter event it in a faot to China the gospel of advancement by rubber-company shares, It may therefore number of years and to carry forward à India to China, and to Australia. Ship that in many cases the loterests of the in means of rallways, and condemn them be be assumed that fair proportion of the larger sum than they did in the previous year owners were instinctively freetraders, they dividual would best be served if his alleged care they refuse to accept our dieta without capital thus utilised would have been devot -namely, £66,488. In the circumstances revelled in free imports, but when they came backslidings were questioned in public. It further, hesitation. That is the Europeaned to investments in Singapore properties. they might, he thought, congratulate them- to see the protection, extended by foreign was here that Mt. Howett came forward to all over. He forgets that once he grovelled We can well understand that the property selves on the results of the year's working countries to their shipping it gave them to support the views of Mr. Hooper, and he on the ground himself and only came into has been depressed as the result of the den: it was largely due to the varied character "think furiously" and to wonder what these added to the general eagerness of the part of his rights last century. He forgets sire of owners to realise and invest their of the company's, business, which was never future would be. Referring to the expendi- outsider to discover what the affair was that che scouted the very idea of aeroplanes money in rubber. For who would be cany bad on all points, and to the safe Davi. ture, he said that in the last. four years abraut. He remarked that the question remaining for hours in the air at a time and tent with a problematical five per cent. 'réturn gation of their fleet. They had sold during their coal account had risen by 100,000, which would shortly be before them was now has, to acknowledge, that they have, when he had a chance of reaping an equally. the past year five of their older, steamships When the shilling export duty on coal very important sanitary question, dealing come to stay. Why is should fancy elusive 30, 50 or 75 per cent. dividend? These cost originally £650,000 odd, and was taken off the price bounded up sud-with is certain section of the town in which that the Chinaman should be so much There is no doubt, however, that the action. they realised £45,000. That demonstrated denly to an enormous figure, and he saw there was a very large white, population superior to bim 2 to realise the value of of the authorities in Singapore, in rooting the necessity of a liberal appropriation for no prospect of lower prices this year thane could not conceive any reason whatso meclinical works at a glance it is impossible out the slum areas in the interests of healing the purpose of depreciating the value of they had last year. They all saw what ever why this particular question should be to say, but he does and therein lies a very and sanitation, clearing, away back to backe ships from the first moment they came into was taking place in Australia. They had treated confidentially Hadid upt know what delicate compliment to China which is unhouses where there was: scarcely breathing existence in their service, and it also show received that morning alarming telegrams as rules governed the working of the depart-consciously paid by the European. Now, space for a cat, and raising the assessment ed the over-taxation to which shipowners to the stoppage of work in Sydney and Melment as to certain papers being treated con- let us turn to Mr. Pope and see what in his for rating purposes did much to locense the were made liable in the present day. It bourne, and if trade improved and their fidentially and others publicly, but he knew opinion is the difference between a railway owner of tone sent houses which under the can be imagined that when Sir Thomas freights advanced it would cost them more that this was an old question that had been which to public.guitance and one which is ban of the Municipal Commissioners had Sutherland reached this stage the share-than at present to lay down their coal at before the Board.before. He brought it up a public convenience. 16 anybody should induced him to part withs his properties holders pricked up their ears to hear some foreign parts. The present report might not at one of the first meetings he had the know it should be hie, who, as he himself when he might otherwise Have felt Inclined thing about that terrible Budget, which is be a brilliant one, but, laking into considera-honour of attending some seven or eight said, had grown old' in the Indian railway to hang on to them. One would have supposed to be the cause of the fall in tion the conditions under which they had years ago. The question was as to the in- system whose ramifications compreblend thought in those circumstances that there Consols, the snowstorms, the earthquakes, been working, the fact that after charging the sanitary condition which obtained in "a par 30,000 miles of rails He said that would have, been a perceptible fall, in the, and the crisis in Morocco, to say nothing full depreciation, they made a return of o per ticular part of the town. He brought it a railway that makes, travel too difficult, top price of properties in view of the danger. of the opium habit, the cost of spirituous cent upon their capital and carried forward forward in what he believed to be the true dear; too slow, and does not exploit all its that the market-might be glutted, bus' liquors in Hong ong, and the establishment a substantial balance was highly satisfactory. interests of the health of a considerable opportunities of facilitating the spread of curiously enough nothing of the sort oc of a non sectarian university, and the On the whole the P. and O. has done resection of His Majesty's garrison of the education, health, amusement, trade and curred. The valuators, intlead state that speaker obliged the unfortunate sine per markably well during the past year, but why Colony, but he regretted to say that travel is a public nuisance that cumbers the the prices at some of the recent auction cent, dividend earners to this extent; Taxa was there no mention of Chinese porkers.7 the P. M... of those days, did, not support ground. Do all these things thoroughly sales were remarkably good. We should" tion, he said, of which they had all been
him, but denied altogether that there fallow all, the so-called indirect avenues of have liked to have had more. light, on? heating a great deal, was a highly progren
was any danger, and backed up sive science in the present day, and all
his public duty and national development and this point but gone is offered, except "owners of property must be thankful, not for
statement by argument which seemed to this shall be added to you, that so surely as this, that the Chinese are investing their being taxed, but for having any property
the speaker extremely foolish. He told him the night follow day, the direct result of a money in house property and speculating. left. And the ribuled rascala laughed. The
(5th January.)
so Afterwards. The question was an Import satisfactory return on the capital expended we presume, with their spare cash in rubber, company's present fleet bad cost them Board meeting held yesterday must have Majesty's forces but also to a considerable railway) udselfishly lays itself out for the in- forms a prominent feature among many of Those who read the report of the Sanitary ant one, and not only related to "His must follow. For in just such measure With that "haracteristic enterprise which £950,000. Io the balance sheet was wondered what the object of the President section of the white civil population of the direct development of the country that it goes our Chinese: residents and which has con. added the valus, of four very costly vessels the sum being £1,150,000 and that had business should be held in camera. "Not a reated confidentially he could not possibly in the number of the population that bas of Singapore, it may not be unreasonable to was in declaring that a certain portion of the Colony and why such a question should be through, in such measure will be the increase tributed so much towards the prosperity of the effect of raising the book cost of the few must have fancied that the minute in conceive. So it will be seen that the subject necessity to travel, and of the trade that wante anticipate that the coming year will see a entire fleet to the extent of about 350. per question had to do with some grievous was entitled to a special plot in the Colonial to mord Probably a better or more complete material improvement in the demang on the too. But if they allowed for their cash re-offence on the part of the officials, or that Cemetery if necessary, having been in the and practical auswer to an extremely tech part of the Chiness for properties suitable serves against that, they would find that the some malingering coolie had been caught in Colony over the statutory seven years. Thnical question could not be given; certainly for Chinese residential or commercial pure ships, including the new vessels, stood at the act. For the speeches were so guarded the end it was agreed that the question the language could not be plainer or more poses provided ownership is not to be to £0.46. 30 per ton. That was certainly a that it was impossible without the key to should be discussed in public and, now, what simple. Can the Chinese officials who realise duly handicapped. An imperfect knowledge Railways in China.
very moderate figure for modern and costly make head or tail of what the members is it that was so wrontin mystery "'accord and appreciate the importance of railways of the average net income usually obtained Proposed Sian Belgian Steamship Company, ships, which originally cost Laz xas. 6d. Destructive Fire in Ningpo.
were driving at. Indeed the mysterious ing to Mr. Hooper it was "correspondence drive the idea of a railway, being public from investments in properties occupied us. per ton. The company had extended their element was maintained with such skill relative to tile discharge of dirty water from convenience into the beads of those who dwellings or shop houses, produces fasceu services in various directions. They had that one might have been reading a de- the nullah-at. Mount Austin iqto, the Pok oppose the introduction of railways on rate estimates of the profits made by reput- made an experimental extention on certain tective yarn in which all sorts of possibili folum reservoir." } voyages of their ships from Australia to New ties are hinted at only to be cast away in the
general principles 2 The other day in Slamed wealthy of unscrupulous owners who arau Zealand which, he hoped, would be a highly end and a 'solution totally unexpected. dia
a young and foolish elephant was, parading sometimes severely criticised in regard to the popular movement in the Dominion of Now covered. The first plan was that "strangers
up and down the railway track, no doubt question of that, overcrowded and insiai. Zealand. Then there was a decided im-withdraw" in order that the minutes of a
wondering who had built this handy tary dwellings. It is a fact that in a large, provement in their service to Japan by link confidential meeting be considered. It will
And, convenient promenade. for his private number of cases the net return from Chinews ing up a fast fortnightly line between Shang- be seen that we are not "behind the mother
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benefit. Along came railway train and native dwellings does not exceed five hai and Yokohama, which he believed would of Parliaments when it comes to official now and then of the vast possibilities of the fight. Who were these intruders on bis the price of a property. The Income RE à rulo' It is well that we should be reminded and the elephant immediately showed and insirequently less than four, per cent on be the means of bringing more "grist to language, Mr. Shelton their mill." They had alto added many boldly up and spoke and demanded to commercial value and use for intercommuniowe, particular plaza ? Let them take the while rent-collecting is generally an exceede Hooper then Chinese railways, apart from their potential domains who dared to make unnt of his on these investment is a very moderate one, other parts to their itinerary. The exten-koow what it was that they wished to cation purposes. We are always! too apt to consequences and he charged. It is true ingly troublesome task, and repairs are a sion to these new places had reference to consider for private, but it turned out af regard the railway system of China which is that lie Koocked the engine off the line but source of continuous worry and expense;. new trades which were being opened up in terwards that Mr. Shelton Hooper was spreading out in all directions, and honey he killed himself in the attempt, and a'dead It is under these conditions that many China, Japan, and the Straits Settlements only following, the example of the famous combing the land with local liner which one elephant has no voice to crow about hissic Chinese and Arab merchants and other wallver In makingthe extensions which they had done racing judge who calooly asked what Counsel day will be licked up with main trucks, toy The opponents of the railway shoes traders invest their capital or earnings. Such the directors of that company realized that meant by "the field" in a betting transaction, aia parely business enterprise on the in the North, those who refuse to accept investors should be welcomed and accorded. still, but must work in harmony with the that the subject should be considered in speculators and because a number of Chia-selves, they are in the position of that un European capitalist becomes the owner of in these times of change they could not stand Without replying directly to the suggestion part of a number of foreign and Chinese foreign loans and yet make an offer them generous treatment, for it is rarely that a the revenue account the most conspicuous put down on the confidential agenda which opposition to the construction of lines manner of meam of persuasion and argu interesting to learn that the expert valasjon progressive character of the present day. In public, the President said "there was a paper ese in various provinces have showa strong happy elephant in Siam," And if after all the class of property above referred to." It is feature was that under the heading of freight from the minutes on the subject showed that through their district we have. not infrement and pleading has been exhausted they of Singapore are not of the opinion that and miscellaneous earnings, amounting to there seemed some divergence of opinion as quently characterised them as Rip Van still rear up on their hind-legs and bellow because the municipality demand the pro Mr.1,518,818, which only differed by the trifl- to whether strangers should withdraw or not Winkles, ancestral dotards, reactionaries and Nay," then there is only one thing for it vision of back lanes to houses in congested. ing sum of £1,263 from that of last year, before the matter was considered. In order so forth. We like seen it stated that the they must be shoved violently out of the areas the value of house property will ber The prospects in the freight. market were to ascertain the views of members he thought people of Hupeh and Hunan refused to subway. But it is well to remember that the impaired. In fact they say that looking three years. At the present moment the he thought the matter should be considered soulless. ignoramuses, who had. no sense of, ignorance and prejudice, but on the simple, taken from the back of each house they better now than they had been for the last it would be best to take a vote. Personally scribe to the railway fand because they were opposition may not be altogether founded in at the very small area that is to be Company had no ships laid up, and if they in private and proposed that strangers should what progress meant, or development or old-fashioned ground of want of imagination, are inclined to think that "the" selling":" should be so fortunate as not to have the withdraw during its consideration." Mean education, but who were desirous of keeping There is another problem in connection with value of these properties will not be Bast inundated with superfluous tonnage, while we can fancy the newspaper men on the tliemselves shut off, from the world so that the different provincial lines which will form depreciated." As outsiders, we would go revenue in this important part of their busi-ful scandal they were to present, to an villages. Of course, a, hasty generalisation qucation as to who ir to say how the line as are brought up to the requirement of the they certainly might hope for an advance of tipton of expectation thinking of the dread they might remain the little tin gods of their one complete trunk route, sed that is the farther and suggest that as the properties Dess this year. Their passenger returns amazed public next morning. But still they is not always to be despised, but in this case whole shall beŋ xup, buli that: if a theme sanitary department their value would not. respects. They amounted last year to showed better than freight returns in some were to be thwarted, for the conspirators had might there not be something more in the which can wait
1,236,483 showing an improvement over
not half exhausted their hidden battery of attitude of those who are against the railway
only, not be depreciated but it would actual the previous year of £63,000. There had been sterious that he could scarcely understand have a lower ideal in their opposition than hinte Mr. Hooper in fact became so my schemes root, and branch? Might they not
ly-be increased. As this most interesting 'document admits: "The back-lane schemes considerable disappointments in the Indian himself, for he said he would like to know the plea of China for the Chinese expel the trade, owing to the fact that the tourist busi-what the matter was they proposed to dis foreignet, down! with foreign loans and house property and land in Hongkong and comfort of tengote and will doubileed is a much-needed one; when caified out it ness, which was until the Americas crisis a cuss and then proceeded: "He was not foreigai interference, and such-like parrot during 1gog) we stated shortly that the mat- bring with it a very desirables improve] In summarising our annual report on should add considerably to the convenience
resumed its activity. What the cause might he thought it was not in the public interest aiming altogether too high in trying to dis. Chlosse property, and hongs Jon; the down majority of town dwelling. Comlag tor very important factor of their work, had never going to give away what the matter was, but cries? The ideas that we may have been ker had been practically at a standstill, with ment in the sanitary condition of the the feeling of unrest in India had something should be discussed, in confidence, and he to the railway proposals in suggested by Metal accommodation there had been little or will entirely agree with the remarks made as be it was impossible to say. It might be that or in the interest, of the Government that it cover the real secret of provincial objections, grade, but owing to the demand for residen- another point property owners la Hongkong to do with it, but he had no doubt that thought the end would be better attained Pops, the general manager of the Shanghai-no movement one way or the other. It to the squeezability of properties by the their business, for, after all, there was no At last the President, goaded to des banquet given to Shanghai in honour of His haider bare to discuss the state of the masstatement on this subject made by Meta eventually they would recover that part of if there was a public discussion on it. Nanking, railway, in a speech delivered at a cannot but be interesting to the property assessment authorities. The sape and fair, country so interesting and so well worth poration, said he was referring to a letter Excellency Shen Yun-pel, the vice-president ket la. Hongkong a compared with hist of Powell & Co. is well worth quoting visiting, as India. Referring to the Siberizo dated 16th September, 1969, from Colonel of the Ministry of Posts and Communica Singapore, which in many respects is simply regard to the proposed increase in house, Railway route, he said it was shorter, especi. Bedford And everybody said. "Oh" and tions. Is the railway regarded by those another addition of this Colony with assessment, its acquiescence by a large nume, With: ally for North China, and it was necessarily "Ah! quite convinced that the point Chiness who have never seen a railway in this difference, that opportunities for or of owners may be expected tarybos quicker than the coa route. There was a had been gained and that the general all their days as a public nuisance encum rehabilitating its finances are greater than crer, should not be taken as a good great development going on in the Far East, public had been taken into the confidence bering the ground or a public benefaction they are hard. As in previous year; ment for further squeezing them up to the ***** MAIL SUPPLEMENT, In China, Korca, Japan, Formosa, and the of the Board and knew all there was to know which is to upilft the people and expand the great firm of valuators in Singapore, point at which they might give fost la molstu
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Straits Settlements there was a growing, about this hideous nightmare. At ail events the resources of the country? That is the Messn: Powell and Co have issued without an audible groan Owitership His movement in trade, and they could only Mr. Hooper was satisfied for he is reported point which Mr. Fops put, that a railway statement covering-the dealings of property already a bear, burden to carry and it should. HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY: 74-1910) hope that sufficient traffic would by-and-by having said that now he knew what it was should be a pablic convenience and got a during the pait year. It is hot a very come not, be added to If Investments in real estate grow up to benefit not only the land line, he might say that the subject was a matter public nuisance," But, then, we ask our.prehensive, document, but its tered: terus are to be made more attractive than they arm 188 P AND O COMPANY: but also the sex conveyance, which was which should be thoroughly and publicly sever, what do the Chinese gentry living on fully enable one to realise that property, at present it is true great improvemen
***(3rd January.)
certkitty by far the more luxurious and the ventilated, and he appealed to the other their private means away from the haunts owner did not dad themselves in a bed of are belag effected by the municipa more comfortable of the two. It was not members of the Board who had read the of men so to speak, away from the fire; uproses inagog. A good many reasons sip, roads are generally kept" ip excel Once again the stald and respectable P. everyone who could endure the ennui of a paper for their support in defeating this mo- to-date, daily vernacular presi, Away from given for the state of affairs and we try as 'dition good water is abundandy and O. Steam Navigation Company has held fortnight to three weeks in a rallway carriage. don that it should be treated confidentially, all that makes life worth living to the actire well quose, the remarks of the compliers of our streets sad roads are well Au/annual meeting with Sir Thomas Sulher Discussing the mail service subsidy, it would If members carefully looked through the man of the world, what do they know about the report drawn up for Mesara, Pawel & Co in other ways, Singapore) has much land in the chair. Of course we'read the be seen, he said, that they had come down paper they would see that there was not arrays, whether they are pubile quisances Among the causes said to be affecting, her thankful for. Nor should old story of valiant endeavour and hard times, to bedrock. They were being paid £350,000 thing there that every man in the street or public conveniences? We certainly market may be mentioned the proposed 18-overlook the fact that Be but the shareholders have little to complain a year against £340,000 under their should not know. Why, therefore, should do know that the first railways' In Bog crassa of ong per cent, in, the Minalcipal return for the security and about in receiving a nine per cent, dividend. late contract.hile the subsidy, in old the Board, as the representative of the public, land were regarded as visitations of the ameisment; declining rents; loss in areas of pip No doubt they would have preferred more times was fully 25 per cent of their gross treat the matter confidentially, as though they devi, abuse undefiled was heaped on the tenement and shophouse properties jo order
ape of the strongous competition carnings, it was now few than 100 per cent, had something hidden up: their sleeve, that fiery monsters.
in the shipping world it can and the result was that they had not poly they were afraid should be divulged? He and
ched forth flame to provide for the Municipal scheme of back- that the P and O. Company me to bedrock, so far as this particular con thought it was against public polic
the beauties of lanes; the steadily increasin well indeed. Twelve months, tract went, but he questioned very much interests and the inter
hands on saturalne the part of the Municipality there was a glut whether the public would ever receive again
ouse-repairs andi, structural: past, of, tho, world, es, die samo service se the company, ware, per- porta; in tha's Fat forming now on as these forms as they. selvers bad almost now sciing. The conditions of their contr
Londons were far more severe than thos ight forward an exoepal plied to the foreign, errvices:
Bullian.
Exchange.
Cocal and Genera).-
BIRTHS,
On. December 11, 1999, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. P. Müller, two daughters.
On December 16, 1999, at Shanghai, to Mr. On December 26, 1909, at Shaughsi, Mrs. M. W: Losbell, of a non.
Ob Tuesday, December 28, 1909, at Shang baithe wife of H. Herlofron, of a 100.
On December 30, 1909, at Shanghai, to and Mrs. Paul Jourdan, a you; Edouard Paul.
On December 30, 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr.
and Mrs. T. Wroe, a son,
and Mrs. Ratton Viccajce, a son,
On December 30, 1909, at Shanghai, the wife of F. A. Sampion, of a daughter,
On December 31, 1959; at Shangbai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Head, a daughter (Stillborn).......
On January 1, 1910; at Shanghai, Mrs. T. F. W. Mammen, of a son,
On Jastary 1, 1910 at Shanghal, the wife of Robert P: Whitham, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
Os Christmas-day, 1909, at Shanghai, Walter Heory, elder son of Arthur W. Garwood, Esq. of Norwich, to Gertrude Alice, younger daugh ter of Elijah Thomas Bailey, Esq., of Norwich,
England
On December 19, 1909, at Yates Home,
Robert Thomas, Bryan, D.D. to Mamie Salle
DEATHS.
Dac. 3 at London; Jean Jardine, daughter of D. Landals aged ex months,
On December 25, 1909 et Shanghal, Lucy Boriont, red 8 years (daughter of Mr and Mesh R. Barion, M. Customs), of scarlet
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At Shanghel, George Read Fawcett, late member of Hongkow Company, Shanghai
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PROPERTY IN SINGAPURE.
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