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THE NEW CURRENCY FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

FRANCE AND SIAM,

The Paris correspondent of the Times writing on February 28th says s**

The

THE HONGRÒNG DAILY PURES 'FRIDAY, APRIL 3an, 1903

A“ SENSATIONAL RUSSIAN TRIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC

THE BRITISH AND GERMAN

UL, NAVIES The Special Court of Appeal in St. Peters The Gorman, Emperors gift to the Reichstag burg gave their verdict and prožcoated The now and interesting phase upon which of a comparative tablo, drawn by his own hand, sentence recently in the case of Lieutenant- Franco-Siamese attairs have tared owing to the of the relativs strength of the British and Ger Colonel Bhairoff, chief of the Kronitsat polles- initiative of the Governor-General of Indo-mah navies kas prompted a number of Garmens This sensational trial, which has occupied the Chias has been interpreted here in a way which to enquire why the comparison has been made Chart for more than three weeks, has been It should be remembered that the table is one of followed with the greatest interest all over makes certain explanations desirable. violence of party passion has rarely loen mani-series of similar naval diagrams constructed Bussis Colonel Shafroff was soensed, it is fested more systematically than in the attacks by the Emperor and presented by him to the bot too much to say, of every crime which made upon M. Pelcassé ever since the signing of Reichetag. The Grensbole of Leipsig, the same

forgery, the misappropriation of public money, on the Higher the convention. Even in the Colonial group magasing which published the Emperor's letter as official in his position could semmit- the sale of offices, the accoplanos of bribes, itself, which includes a majority of staunch to Admiral Holmsen Republicans among its members, the hostility

and other offences. The more reading of the

of the opposition has found an echo which it was

obtefly interested the public was the dif- immit for any Minister for Foreign Affaire to

charge took up one whole day. But what

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as of the With the prospect of an early new murrency, enys the Manila Tinen oon- siderable apasulation in going on among the publis as to the relations which will exist between the various kinds of money which will and then be in use throughout the archipelago the manner in which the readjustment between the new and the old will take place. While much of this discussion is theoretical and even fanciful, yet there is one phase of the matter which is at once material and important and which requires no expert knowledge of currency to grasp. We refer to the relationship which will be sustained between the frexican peso and ignore. It was inevitable, therefore, that the interpreted as if a clenobed flat were being ficulty which had been found in bringing remuneration for services rendered to the

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the Conant peto as regards the scale of prices letter to M. Etienne in which M. Delassé

nounced the intention of the Governor-Genera The illustrate: Suppose an individust is now of Indo-China to enter into negotiations paying a hundred and thirty Mexican peson

with Biam should be constructed by many month for board, when the Conant pred to put as evidence that the Freash Minister into cirqulation will be be required to pay the for Foreign Affairs bad abandoned his same number of those de can be readily seen convention. Ive b there exists a decided difference between the The real facts do not admit of so summary an two. Reduced to a gold basis that $130 mex. i interpretation. The convention subsists, and worth $50. while the 3130 Conant would b there are no grounds for anticipating that it worth 805, In this case, should the same will not be eventually ratified. Bat meanwhile umber of Conante as of Mexicans be charged the negotiations, which M. Bean will, no doubt, there would be an actual increase in coat to the be authorised shortly to begin with the Court border of 815 gold, no inconsiderable sum..

of Bangkok will in all probability result in an

Chius and Sism, the formal stipulations of which will in completing the classes of the convention constitate such a corollary to that convention is bound to satisfy even the Colonial group o

Criticise, provides an answer to this very natural enquiry. The tabb, it is asserted, does not portand a new Navy Bill, nor is it to be shaken against England. No new Navy Bill

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In the High Court of Justice recently an BOTTLED ALES, BEERS AND

crow of the steamship Hermes to recover salvage action was brought by the owners, master, and

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defendants' steamship diox and her cargo in Ind, Coope & Co.'s the Red Sea between June 12 and 24, 1902.

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That there will be an effort on the part of arrangement, as entente cordials, between Inde in England and Chauvinists in Germany are the very type of an nutrustworthy official. None course of a voyage from Glasgow and Birken-Yebisu, Japanese

merchants and others to demand the same number of Conant peses as they are now receiving Mexican wo think there can be question. It is also very probable that the same damand will be made by those, especially the salarios Filipinos, who are now reveiving their in Mexican penon, they are plecat suo to insist on peso for peso.

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Alo ... steamship of 394 tons registar, fitted with Bass, Light Gravity pumps capable of pumping 4,509 tona a hour,

She is Bass, Boar's Head... and is manned by a crew of 24 banda.

Do. do. fully equipped with divers and diving apparatus Dortmund, Pilsener and with other salving appliances, and is kept Do. do. constantly ready with steam up and a full orew El Capitan, do.

Do on board, so as to be able to proceed to sea at

Jubilee, do.

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do. the shortest notice. The Ajaz is a steal seraw

Do. do. steamship of 7,040 tons gross register, with a Maich, Dark

Blats, American ... crew of 65 handa; and at about noon on June 1, 1902, when she was approaching Jiddah in tha

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Light head to the East with a general cargo, the grazed over a reef and began to make water so Tebisu, Japanese

Dark... that it was necessary to bench her on a coral

STOUT. roof just inside the inner gatoway at the entrance to the port. It was arranged that the Ind, Coops & Co.... Fer 8 Dos. Fts. $19,50 22.45 Hermes, which was then lying at the Pirmus, GrainBour's should immediately proceed to the assistance of the Ajax. According to the plaintiffs, the Guinness, Boar's agreement was that the owners of the djas should pay the sum of £1,500 in consideration of the Hermes leaving the Piraeus for Jiddah, subject, however, to this sum being reduced to £750 if for any reason the Hermies should be stopped at Fort Said, and that the sum of £1,500 was to be treated as a payment on account of any salvage reward which the plaintifs might subsequently be held entitled to, and that,

which could be proposed could be expected to the accused to trial, a difficulty which was as bring the German navy up to the numerical inexplicable as the fact that a man with such standard of that of Great Britain, and the table, past should have been entrusted with sasha so far from being minatory, proves that it wouldponsible past and should have enjoyed the confidence of two such'. men as Admiral be absurd for a Power of such manifestly in- Kasushoft and Admiral Binkaroff, the former ferior naval strength as Germany to provoke or member of the Council of State, the latter the challenge an opponent whose maritime resources naval commander of the port of Kronstadt.

A nation are so much greater than its own.

Colonel Shafroff, after serving for some time which, counting vessels in and out of commis-as an officer in the Guarda, stored the police sion, can only show 12 battleships, two armoured cruisers, and 17 cruisons with an armored deck service in Moscow in 1897. He does not seem as against England's 42 of the first class, 14 of to have given satisfaction there for he won the second, and 109 of the third will never be resigned his position, apparently at the request of his chief, who is said to have described him as able to assume the role of aggressor. Alarm ste

the less he succeeded in obtaining a position in fuvited to look at the figures in this light,

the St. Petersburg police servies in 1892, but The article then proceeds to deal with the pro- soon had to resign in consequence of attempts bable situation in 1916, when the whole of the

at extortion which were alleged aid apparently programme laid down in the Navy Law of 1900 proved again et bins. This, strange to say, did will have hesa carried out. Germany will then not put an end to his caroor, for in April, 1899, have in commission and in reserve 59 battleships, he was appointed to the responsible post of chief 14 armoured cruisers, and 38 craisers with an of the police at Kronstadt. Bis condust soon armoured deck, or a total of 90 vessels. But roused suspicion and not long after hisappoint Great Britain at present possess a 163 abips of mont an investigation, which came to nothing, these three classes and as it may be expected was ordered by the Ministry of the Interior. In December, 1889, however, the public prosecutor of St. Petersburg appeared on the sceno sad instituted a rigorous enquiry. In consequence of the discoveries he made he requested the com- mander of the port temporarily to relieve Colonel Shafro of his functions and thus render a trial possible. Admiral Makaroff, instead of comply- investigate the charges. This commission reported that they were baseless and the com- mander of the port retained the accused in his position. The publis prosecutor then appealed to the Bensis, which in June, 1900, gave orders that the chief of the Kronstadt police was to be temporarily relieved of the functions and judicial investigation made of the charges brought against him of misappropriating publie fands, of extorting money, of abusing his powers, &c.

there will be a proportionate increase in the British Navy, the Granzbots assumes tast Great Britain will have in 1918 60 battleships, 25 armoured cruisers and 150 ertisers with up armoured deck, unless the diffinity of providing The vagueness of this information may, howofficers and crews for such an enormous fleet over, be partially dispelled.ndie.

proves to be insuperable, Great Britain, there German navy at the present day, though in 1916 it will be worthy of her attention, as it will then prevent a blockade of

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of Foreign and Colonial POSTAGE ~BACA & 00, Importers and Exporters G STAMPS, 35, Peel Street, Hongkong, have just received for sale at their stall at Hongkong Hotel Corridor a large variety of nios Pictorial Fost Card Albums. Fiétorial Fort Cards:

An inking to the nature of the now negotiations was contained in this morning's Figaro, M. Besu'a scheme, according to a well. ⠀⠀ While this problem of readjustment in likely informed article in this journal, is in no way to cause some trouble in the city, yet the pre politics. It does not modify the ensemble of bability is that this will be comparatively slight the treaty of October 8. It is purely economie compared with the provinces, where the people end has as its object the construction of two are more ignorant and loss susceptible to illway lines which 1: Best regards as neces explanations of the relative value of ourrencymary for the commercial development of Inde messured by the gold standard We may China, and which mustentar Siamese territory therefors look for considerable difficulty to arise in the readynstment which must take place between Mexicans and Copents. Possibly by anticipating the change which must soon arrive

succeeded M. Doumer as Governor funeral of and preparing the wep-new, zom

some_mimnder- | Tudo Chian, han the avowed Imperialistic lean standing and friction may be avoided, but it will probably take some time to reach a gener:lge of his predecessor, while being one of those be strong enough to

French officials of the younger school who have learned, not only in the books of M: Chailley Bart, but by direct experience with the For Bast, the advantages to be derived from the study of what may be called comparative colobisation. The spectacle of the practical results achieved in British India by a wise policy of amenelpation from the mother country ▲ Parliamentary paper was isoned in and by the steady application of an organically February containing correspondesre with the expansive economic policy kus not been Russian Government respecting the interprsta lost upon M. Bean. Last September, im tion of the most-favoured nation clause inmediately upon ho mal at Marvelles, Sea squadron of 18 battleships wonki,tradictory character and very many of the reached in safety at about noon on June 21 on WEDNESDAY. the lat APRIL.

It is well to recall that M. Bean who has tore, need not trouble herself at all about the ing with this request, appointed a commission apart from the sum of £1,500, the salvage was Panorama of Hongkong, Macao. Canton,

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and satisfactory adjustarent. Ta as the only fair and tenable basis of arrangement appears be that of the gold standard and a grading of all prices in Mexican to it

RUSSIA AND THE SUGAR QUESTION.

the

German

The German constă. navy in 1916 could only threaten the English coast if the British Mediterranesa Squadron were held in check by an ally of Gormany's or if, which is extremely improbable, British strategy were to prove greatly inferior, In these arcumstances it is absurd to regard the Emperor's diagram as intended to convey the lesson delende est Garthage. The Grensoote thinks that the British Admiralty must be aware that the suggested creation of a North- evidence given was

A naval armament

Genaany, it is argued, requires a fleet to protect her coasts from blockade and her com-

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on the basis of "no care, no pay." The Hermes Chinese Costumes, Views, do, &o, is Phototype left the Firsts on June 5, and arrived at Jiddad and Coloured Colotype. Assortment of Postage Stamp-Albame, Lazes, Hinges, Tweezer and on June 12, on which day the defendants paid to other Philatelic goods. Prices to suit all tho plaintiffs the sum of £1,500. When the Customers. Correspondents wanted. Foreign Hermes arrived divers were as once sent down orders promptly attended to. Cash with order (255 to inspect the leaks, and the plaintiffs subse- or lat class reference quantly constracted a large patch 36ft. long by 9ft, brosd to be placed over the damaged parts. The leaks were stopped by wedges on June 13,and the Herms then proceeded to pamp out the water from the Ajas, and by 2.80 on June 14 she was got scat. The patch was then 8591 The trial began on January 27. The securely fixed, and at about 5.30 am. on June of the most con- 18 the two steamers left for Euez, which was

witnesses falled to maintala in open court the The Hermes then took her own gear on board, allegations against the accused which they had

The testimony given by Admirala Kazuskoff made in private to the the public prosecntur. and Makaroff, the former and present com- manders of the pert, was strongly in favour of Colonel Shafroff. Bat, on the whole, the

and the general impression produced by the prosecution succeeded in making out their case, evidence was that the chief of the police had miensed his position in the most unscrupulous

manner.

The Court, after four hours'

and on June 24 received notice from the master

quired. The value of the Hermes was £22,000. of the djaz that ber services were no longer re The value of the Ajax was £63,840, and of ber cargo £104,397, together £168, 37, there being no freight at risk.

Mr. Robson, K.C., Mr. Aspinall, K.C., and Mr. Dawson Miller appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Laing, K.C., and Mr. Bateson for the defendanta.

he declared that his policy would be carried into effect, be a serious menines, and that of M. Doumer, that he believed in decent not to Germany alons. ralisation, and that the smelioration of native so disproportionately powerful would compel Agricultural interests by the opening up of canals other Powers to think of a coalition. was for him pert and parcel of his general achama of completing the Indo-Chinese milway system. It is worth while recalling that M.merce from molestation. Bean's Chef de Cabinet is M. Hardonin, who has been French Consul of Bangkok. It is there fore, not surprising if during the last five months in which he has been at his post his chief con- cern should have koop less the pepetration of Tunuan than the problem of how to ameliorate the commercial relations between Indo-China and Siam-in other words, how most rapidly to bridge the desolate zone between Kornt and the Mekong, thus making the old sphere of French influence, as marked on all recent maps but now French in reality by the can restored to Siam, struction of & asilway system which will drain away from Bangkok a certain amount of products, converging them upon the French province of Cambodia and enriching Saigon and Hus. If to be insuficient, her first thought would be to REGULATING THE OPIUM HABIT. 97, it was right to encourage people to maintain the Siamese wers to prolong the Kores line to apply with ouidence to Great Britain, and no Ubon it would tend to draw off to Bangkok all sensible British Government will ever conduct

inhabitants cannot be fed entirely upon home produce, and she has to remember that all her neighbours, with, the exception of Austria. Hungary, have become strong sea, Povers, while new factors have appeared in the shape of the American and Japanese fleets. The next great war will be carried on both at sea and on land; the French fleet of to-day, for example, would probably play a much greater part in na European war than its predecessor did in 1870. Germany covots no possession of Great Britain's; she only wishes, liks Great Britain, to have the freedom of the seas and to be able to protect trade carried on under her dag. If the protection she can give to her commerce should ever prove

Mr. Justice Buckaill, in giving judgment, after stating the facts, said that the Ajas was, no doubt, in a position of considerable dange, when she was lying besched on the coral reef, But it appeared from the evidenes that there was other salvage assistance which would have been available if the Hermes had not been there. The services involved no danger or risk to the salvers; but, as laid down by the Court of Appeal approving the judgment of Mr Justics Gorell Barnes, in the case of the Glengyle, 1893, p.

salvage vaisal of the nature of the Hermes, The award, however, must not, merely because There has come into operation in the the value of the property exlved was very great,

deliberation, found that the aconsed bed been guilty of taking bribes, of forging documents, and other offences, and sentenced him to be deprived of all the rights and privileges of his birth and class, to be deprived of his rank and orders, to be struck off the army roll, and to be placed for two years in a military punishment company.

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eccezion with countervalling duties on bounty. fed sugar. The correspondence opens with a memorandum addressed on behalf of the Russian Government by M. Lear to Lord Salisbury on June 12, 1899, protesting against the Indian Tariff Act (1894) Amendment," which imposed countervailing daties on Russian engar imported into India. A is already known, he, British Government declined to accept the Bussian arguments on this question. It was urged by Lord ballsbury in reply that the Rusama system created an artificial stimulus to sagar production practi- sally equivalent to a bounty, and that when the clear, intention of the most favoared notion clause was thas overridden, was open to the other party to redress the balance of trade thus artificially disturbed, Huais did not accept this view, the British Government offered to denounce our commercial treaty with Russia; bat, Russia wanking, no response, the subject dropped. There follows in the correspondence the memorandum prepared by the Russian Mi istry of Finance in consequence of the decisions of the Brussels Sugar Conference, and transalt.

·ted to the signatory Powera in Taly last year the traffic which at present passes by Prom its policy on such lines that Germany will then Province of Fukies, a system of badges to be out of all proportion to the services. Tak-though printed in smaller type then formerly, Raptring to this on July 30, Lord Lansdowne Foul and Saigon. Likewier a line linking have to abandon the idea of showing her dag indicate the different classes of opium smokers ing all the circumstances of the ease inte sad condensed in avery possible manner, com

called attention to the fare of the Indian Battambang to Bangkok or to Chentabon would beaids that of Great Britain. With the help to the officials who administer this drug ander. account, he should award the sum of £7,000. question just described, and expressed the hope probably be equally disastrous for French trade. of good will and fair and honourable dealing Government patrounge. Ma Po, the Chinese that Russia might become a party to the But M. Bean well knows this, and M. Deloans the interesta of Great Britain and Germany in daily paper of Manila, has this to any of the Hrassels Convention. He observed that, if she te no doubt as alive to these facts as either the world can very well exist side by side, did not take that vorest, and the International the president of the Colonial group or the Commission came to a fading adverse to Governor-General of Indb-China. The obrious the Russian systain, Great Britain would have proof, indeed, that he is so may be found in as option but to apply the penal clares to the pert Russian sugars. The proposed for an inquiry as on the general effect of bounties was declined A long memorandum a communicated on Septe

of Clause 4 of the convention of

RUSSIAN FLEET AT COLOMBO There was quite a Russian invasion of Colombo By this clause the Bangkok when the squadron, which may be expected to Government agreed to come to a previous reach Hongkong on the course of a week or ten understanding with France in case if desired to days, was in the harbour there on the 19th alt. btain the construction by foreign capital In The Beet number twelve ships. There was the Siamese portion of the Makeng Valley of besides in the harbour one of the vessels of the railways, harbours or canals. This stipulation Russian Volunteer Fleet and twe mere were implies the procècupation of the French Foreign expected and Colonial Offices as to the trend of the trade routes in the Hinterland of Cambodia.

The great marked hast night, therefore, by the publication of M. Delcaise a latter is in no sense the coup de théâtre which certain misin- formed commentators have sought sensationally to make out. It is, on the contrary, merely a mocersary and logical stage in the development of that sotive, forward policy of economic er panion which ever since M. Doumer's vice-

Referring to this the Times of Ceylon says —— In days gous by there was an understanding with regard to the number of alien gunboats--- an understanding by the way, accepted sud soted

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badge system

The authorities of the Province of Fukien, to which nearly, all of the Chinese of Manila belong, have planned to establish a Government factory for the preparation of opiam; and now it is reported that after the opening of this establishment, all opini smokers who wish to purchase the drug must obtain from this establishment badges which are of three classes,

Government officials; (2) paper badge, which is viz; (1) brass badge, which is for the for the gentry, and (3) wooden badge, which is for the common people.

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reader the best description of the Southern most unwholesome and detrimental. Between Frenah colonies in the Far East that has yet the carbonic acid of human breath and that appeared," SHANGHAI MERCURY, obtained from combustion or other sources there Many of us in the Far East have read is no chemical difference, The conclusion is books on Tonkin, ancient and modern, nt a therefore forced upon us that there must be in knowledge of things as they are bluze to-day, human breath an accompanying poisonous cou of what has been accomplished under

he opt recently been said about the air in the tube The author has written what stituent as yet unknown to science. Much has Dommer's administration in far from commen. railways, but analysis only shows that the air out to do, a very readable and soonrato ketch of the tube, though nawholesome and often of the colony as it is at present. Aliogether,

To ascertain the hall ordinary inhabited room offensive, is very little worse than that of so this is a book to road BANGKOK Trigg more extended inquiry that has hitherto boon carried out is needed.

ember 24 contains the Russian reply, In this the tiew of the British Government that the Russian system infringes the most favoured nation clause, and that countervailing duties in such case are legally adminable, is contested in detail, klo

On these badges are written the names of It in contended that in the light of the Russian commercial tresty, bounties, even if they existed, could not arnish a ground for the

the opin smokers, their ages, their addresses, antee The other

up to by all foreigners frequenting our port. and the quantity of opium they are allowed to imposition of counter

Payson is

Doubtless this role to limit the number of bay daily, which is to be decided and Emited parly As mattern described as "domestic legislation, which she

foreign gunboats in port at any one time as by the Government officials, and which cannot found a salutary one in days gone by. Its be deviated from at any time. considers necessary for controlling the produc

All the opium dealers who have received tion of sugar. in the circumstances Enesis

origin, however, is a mystery, like many peatonal arbitration or to our

other time-honoured observance. By whom license from the Government to retail the proposed submission of the question to On November 20 Lord Lansdowne stated, in royalty has inspired the connses of the French Elt was inaugurated, what was the immediate holled or prepared opium, are not permitted to nature of this poisonous constituent, a much roply, that there was no intention on our part of Colonial Offes. Moreover, what has just taken use for it, and how the various nationell privately any opium to those who do not placing Russing sugar in the British market in place is the intelligibis corollary of Clause received it, and a hundred other questions have badges. According to this plan it is alex Lavourable condition than other gare, and that the remedy for the fibration was in 4 of the convention of last Ontober. In this which suggest themselves, casuot now be expected that the opium smokers will feel the hands of the Russian rather than of the Imperialistic movement westward there is answered, though many will remember that up asimmed of wearing these badges and reform British Gorarement. He regretted his in- nothing to arouse Slamass apprehensions. The till recent times no more then three foreign themselves generally by brocking off the ovil ability to agree that the case was one which convention which has been so attacked remains waves were admissible into port at one time. Shortly after Bir West Ridgeway took

ment, the rais was rescinded ER

could be submitted to an arbitral tribunal, and third gusrantee of Blanese independence and over the reins of Government here repreThis is a most important plan for affording held they be British Government's offer toen Integrity. But the mission which French-sentations on the matter took place, and, after livel hood to the people and for protecting the denounce the Anglo-Russian commercial tresty of 1859 released it from the need of further men have displayed in the desire to obtain from mnoh correspondanos between the Secretary of Chinese race. controversy. Finally, & Russian note verbale M. Delessé fuller light on the rentalgaitasne Stats for the Colonies and the local Gore Commenting on this the Manila Times saYE = | of Januar 14 pointed out that the wide diver of his convention, had especially of Clause 4, Men of was, it is not generally known, do-Now that the Philippine Commission is about gance of views revealed by the correspondence seemed to precinde say abance of compromise, will not, it is to be hoped, have quite escaped not par harbour dnes. The only charge made to make public an sot, to regulate the importa. notice at Bangkok There is a lesson to be on them in for pilotage. This charge is made and that the question must be considered an

learnt therefrom by Bia-add it is in the on foreign vessels only-and it is generally tion and sale of the drag in the Fillipines, interests of general peace in the Far East that accepted that American vessels do not come doubtices this badge scheme would be well worth

under that descript

open one pend ng Le decision of was Com mission to be established under the Sugar

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