2
INTIMATION
the British in the forefront of the nationa, The Volunteer forces at Home now number
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 28rx, 1905
A Chinaman was yesterday rantenced to three months' baril labour and to receive twelve
over two hundred and forty one thousand straks with the birch for snatching a hairpin.
men, exclusire of yeɔmsary, shooting clubs,
from a Chinese woman's hair,
Tong Shao-yi, the Chinese Commissioner
A. S. WATSON & CO., and, of courec, militia. Out here, in on who is to negotiate with the Indian Govorn
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kong and the China ports, where there have been more frequent "excursions afarums," how is it that there is not a like pitch of enthusiasm? Is it that there are no pretty housemaids to fasciunte, and gaudy uniform withal to do it? Or is it that
the Briton is the Far East is mado of differ VINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ont stuff? We are not submitting these as alternatives. We hasten to add that the
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,
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OF THE FINEST QUALITY
SPECIALLY SELECTED & IMPORTED
DIRECT FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED
CHATEAUX.
ment a Convention of adhesion on the part of the Chiness Government to the Anglo-Tibetau Treaty, arrived at Calcutta on February 17th.
recently, says that the Chinese earned 2. a Sir G. Parker, who has been in the Transcaal day with comparative ease and that he had never
seen more healthy-looking men. Their coo. dust, too, had been highly satisfactory. As to white labour in the mine, it had been tried,
TELEGRAMS.
["DAILY FENIS" BENTICE,),
A RUSSIAN BUBBLE BURST.
Losnow, 27th March. The bubble of Russian financial solvency, inflated by bogus reports and photographs of gold bullion, and kept afloat by paying interest with new loans, lus burst.
Reports from St. Petersburg,
of
CORRESPONDENCE.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC KOWLOONIST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,"
¿ CAMPBELL MOORE AND CO., LD. The Reper of the Board of Directors to the nineteenth Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders to be bel at the Company's Office. No. 29,
Six-In walking through the streets of Queen's Road Central, on Friday, 31st March,
aya.
Kowloon, ous cannot help noticing the 'gus, of improvement and progress which meet the
It is an encouraging sign to see that the following Compoules have established them Dairy Farm Co. Ld. A. S. Watson & Co. selves on the peninsula for good, viz-The
Terminus Stores, China and Japan Tolophone
Co., Station Hotel, Occidental Hotel, Kowloon
Hotel, Anglo-American Stores, Kowloon Stores,
Stores, Cosmopolitan Hair Dressing Saloon,
at 12 o'clock, noon, in as follows: -
Gentlemen, -The Directors have tho ples- sure to lay before you the accounts for the twelve months ending 31st December, 1901, showing a credit balance of $8.171.74 which, with your approval, your Directors propose to To pay & Dividend of 30 por cent deal with ne follows:-
37
pay Directors' Foes... write off Fixture and Furniture
Recounta
necessity of either answer is not apparent, and failure had been the result. The Boer trustworthy nature, announce a "ter- Moo Cheong, Brown & Co., H. Rattonjes' To place to Reserve Faud account
farmors would not view the abrogation of the
The probability is that, taking a right average of per ceutage to population, the volunteer movement in these parts is as well supported as, if not better than, it is elsewhere. Our communities are numeri-
cally small, and the per centage of eligibles is not nearly so great in Shanghai and | Hongkong as people might imagine. KIPLING's "young men" at our Empire's outposts grow old sometimes, and they do not thou always flock Home to make room for younger colonists. To many sien of advanced age, Shanghai or Hongkong in Howe, and they soek no other. Then 2 doz.there is the fact that for some mysterious reason the Far East dituínishes the ine 1.99.00 | dividual energy, to an extent for which
climate alone cannot account. There is also
I 63.
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Qt5.
ST.
ESTEPHE,
(Red
Capsule) ...
$8.00
054 Бр
ST. JULIEN, Rod
Capsulos
10.00
I A ROBE, (Red
Capsule)
13.50
14.50
CHATEAU HAUT
BRION LARRIVET...
20.00
CHATEAU. MOUTON
D'ARMAILHACQ
24.00
CHATEAU PONTET
CANET ...
28.00
CHATEA U LA TOUR
CARNET
CHATEAU RAUZEN
CHATEAU LAFITE
33.00
49.00
14.00
Ordinance with favour, because the employment
of the coolies set the Kaffles free for work upon the farms.
The public ballot deciled that the Dallas
Houdman Company should reproduce last night the musical comedy The Girl from Kaye." There was a fairly well filled house. The many pretty songs wem enthusiastically received, and many encores had to be given, Tonight the Company will appear for the last time this season when A Country Girl" will be staged. The Company is booked to open in Shanghai on the 1st April, and will leave for that port to-morrow morning. On their return they will probably play for another short season in Hongkong.
The Tiver had this outspoken passage in a recent leaderThis nation yields to none in its auxiety to see an end put to this devastatė“
rific" deficit in the exchequer, The alleged gold reserve is now discovered to have been all a sham,
Grare fears of a financial panic on the Continent are expressed. In Paris, bondholders are already facing a serious catastrophe,
GERMANY, FRANCE, AND MOROCCO.
LONDON, 27th March. Feeling between Germany and France vis a vis Morocco is undergo- ing a severe strain.
Germany refuses to discuss the
Sultan.
sovereignty of its
REUTER'S SERVICE.]
11.00 the fact that the alarme that seemed to calling war, bat the end must be a coal and sub-Morocco question with France at all,
for volunteers were raised by despised the goods of future trouble. Loyalty to our
stantial peace, aut a more armistice containing insisting on the observance of the cuemies. What great training was needed ally, and regard for our own substantial absolute integrity of Morocco, and on to fight a few Chinese, some potential interests in the Far East, alike require us to the undisputed Volunteer way be imagined to have asked.scrutinize with the greatest care any proposals 22. There is another point to which our atten-
which may tend to pave the way for such action tion has lately turaad, the possibility that taken against Japan and against commercial by combined Powers as has once already been 26.00 those who seem to have taken the Volunteer freedom. It is no secret that there are ambi -wovement to heart may have been defeating tions which seek satisfaction in a moro extended their own ends. At Shanghai, where, some partitioning of China to the exclusion of our- what tardily, they are giving electoral sales and other nations. Our desire for paano, privileges to those who volunteer for publicus into supporting specious proposals which genuine as it is, must not be allowed to hurry service, it has been repeatedly and publicly announced tint a man who is fit to make a volunteer and does not, is a worthleas citizen. Thia, apart from its votruth. is scarcely the way to attract the syrupthetic attention of outsiders. At Hongkong. His
any facilitate the renewal of attack apan Japanese interesis and the commercial interests of the world by combinations which nood not be particularized,
Speaking at Bexhill, the Hon. T. A. Brasser referred to the difficulties that had always met
A. S. WATSON & CO. | Excellency the GOVERNOR has made it bis any attempt to increase the Naval Reserve and
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redaco the permanent force by enlisting in the Reserve Britzet seamen in the mercantile He suggested that the Admiralty should subsidize shipowners who would take boy apprentices, which at present they wore - not prepared to do except in the case of boys whe eventually bocaue officers. He pointed out that
- THE RUSSIAN LOAN NEGOTIA-
TIONS.
LONDON, 25th March,.
have cfficially announced that the Russian Lonn The Committee of the Paris Stock Exchange
negotiations have been resumed, and are now proceeding quite satisfactorily,
THE JAPANESE LOAN.
LOB DON, 25 March The Englie kalf of the new Japanese loau of £30,000,000 Sterling has already been an derwritten in England, and the American half over-subscribed in New York.
Kowloon Butchery, &c.
In view of the fact that a milway will soon (?) connect the peninsula with the pro- perous and nourishing city of Canton, one wonders why such firms as Gaupp & Co., A Cheo & Co., A Fong, Photographer. Falcount
Co., Hongkong Icu Co., Kelly and Welsh
$3,600.00
600.00
280.15
...2,500.00 carry forward to next year's account 1,182.50
$8,171.74 Your Directors are glad to be in a position to state that the business of the Company has been steady during the past few months, and there is overy probability of showing as good resulta for the present year
The accounts have been audited by Mr. A. Id., Brewer & Co., The Mediest Hall, O'D. Gourdin, who offers himself for re- Noronha & Co., Robinson Piano Co., Singer election. Sewing Machine Co., Wsikias Ld. and Powell
J. W. OBBORNE, & Co. have not already established themselves,
Chairman. Perhaps they have not yet realised the valuo of the prospects which are in 'sture for the { peniasala?
Yours, &c.
KOWLOONITE.
CIGARETTES. ALSO, MIGHT BE CHEAPER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "DAILY PRESS,"
Hongkong. 27th March.
SIR. The Dairy Farm Co. would confer a ethers who are loss fortune favoured, if the favour and a blessing to underpaid clerks and
Company could see their way to reduce the price of their frozen Beef to more reasonable Egure than the priment charge of 30 cents a pound, and I dare say a reduction of 5 cents per pound would be greatly appreciated by the good housewives of Hongkong in general, and the poor clerks in particular. The demand for juicy steaks, etc. would therefore necessarily increase to good dimensions and the Company would come out a gainer in the long run.
"BEEF "
The accounts are as follows
BALANCE SHEET.
From 1st Janary 1004 to 31st December, 1904.
A SRETA To stock
Value of stock on haud To nacounts receivable---
Due from enstammerm............. To cunda
Ta Chartered Bank-
In current account
Amount on hand
To fixed duporit-
C
3-5,040.79
5,359.44
379.01
3,376.70
With Chartered Bank of 1. A. and Chinn 8,500.00
To fixtures and furnitures-
Written off as per resolution passed
As per lust account
31st March, 104
Lens sale of electric fans
Since added
Toinearance account-
Unexpired prominen paid in advance......
---------$696.58
123,59
3:09.00
175.0
325,00
40673
789.15
14,67
$27,485.76
LIABILITIES.
+ C.
1,200 shares paid up at $10 each
...... 12,000.00
By accounts payable-
Due to sundry needitors
1,667.72
An per last pacount
Added as per resolution passed
Hist March, 1904 ...
$3,540.06
2,000.00
By capital--
By reserve fand
loimed dividends and bonu....... ----- 5,009,0)
126.0
(We print this letter because we are in entire sympathy with the writer. We would like to see an allround reduction in the price of every- thing, but sine! Then, are there really clerks. in Hongkong who are underpaid Is all that By glossy linen and fashionable attire not a true. By balance at credit of proft and loss 8.171.74 index of clerical alience Thie is indeed n shook to us. But surely our correspondent lot The name card accompanying his letter is that word "anderpaid" alip in inadvertently. gilt-edged, a laxary our poor pasteboard has To charges Dover yet attuned to.
YACHTING.
particular interest to foster the movement locally and in his recent speech we seem to letect an underlying disappointment that such high official countenance should have [33 beca productive of no greater result. In
this connection, we may quote a passage 41.3 per cent. of seamen in British ships were Br CoURTESY OF THE JAPANESE CONSUL. inek of wind, were unable to finish their fifth
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All letters for publication should be written en oh side of the pager only.
Do anonymously signed communications that have stready appeared in other papers will be inserted.
from the just issued report of the Hongkong Lasers or foreigners. The Navy would gain Rifle Association. In it, the hon. soc., Mr. by the adoption of his suggestion by these boys MOWBRAT 8. NORTHCOTE says: "The becoming enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve, formation of the (Hongkong Volunteer
He did not entirely agree with the action of the Admiralty in taking out of commission the Ride) Association bus deprived us of many
whole of the 150 ships sobeduled, as many of commission in the French and Russian navies In time of war the number of ships rather than their fighting power was of the greatest im portance, and the vessels he mentioned world serve admirably as commerce protectors round
THE WAR.
PRISONERS RELEASED.
TOKYO, 27th March.
Of the Russian non-combatants fallen into our hands in the battle of Mukden, The released
Ciders for estro copies of DaILY PRESS should be possible members who might have done them were of the some calibre as ware now in the following were released.
se before 11 am on day of publication. After that the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash
Ten graphic Address: Pazos, Codes. A.B.C.5th Ed. Lieber's 0. No. 83. Telephone No. 12
The
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much to stimulate this Association and revive its flagging interest in the sport of rifle shooting, and in view of the establish ment of this rival Association and of the proposal to form a Volunteer Rifle Club which will absorb most, if not all, of our HONGKONG OFFICE : 14, DEVEUX ROAD O1. active members, the question arises whether the time has not now come when this Association must cease to exist." At pre- sent, there seems little occasion to comment on that. It seems sufficiently eloquent by itself, and reading it, many will form an opinion of the state of things locally which subsequent circumstances may or may not prove to Leu correct one.
HONGKONG. March 28th, 1905.
our own costs.
Times says the hull is insured against war riske Reporting the seizure of the Sylvania, the for £30,000, and the cargo and freight for £25,000, making £55,000. Of this amount £51,000 falls on the London market, and £4,0.0 is covered on behalf of the owners. With regard to the Powderham, the same paper says it arrived at Wossung as long age as January
18th, and was detained in Chinese waters while
in front of our advanced guard were 47 men ranking as officers, 359 ranking as non- commissioned officers, nurses, 2 priests and 4 merchants attached to the array. Those released at their desire in Chefoo or
3 nurses and 298 ranking a non-commis- Shaugli were 23 men ranking us officers,
sioned officers.
BEUTER'S SERVICE.}
THE THIRD BALTIC SQUADRON,
attempts were made to get her voyage to
LONDON, 25th March. Russia's third Baltic squadron has arriv Vladivostok cancelled. These attempts provoded at Port Said. The vessels are heavily nosuccessful; and underwrites have to meet laden with stores, and are shipping little, The C.8, collier Anshan arrived from the expense of demurrage as well as a total loss being apparently anxious to avoid delay. on lull and cargo, should these be condemned. The hall is insured against war risks for £22,000. They were to sail last night for Jibutil.
from Macao yesterday.
The Portuguese cruiser Adamastor arrived and the total insurance liabilition on hull, coal
Tas Volunteer movement is one that affords a vast number of differing points of view; and he would be a bold man who, venturing to discuss the question, were to assert that he had assumed the only right one. The logicians quarrel for some reason with the adage that truth rests between two extremes, but in connection with our view | Tong-ho Island yesterday. of the Volunteers, we may assume that it lies somewhere between the opinion that dubs them mete carpet soldiers, and the other that would have us accept Volunteer training as the first essential of any man hoping to claim rauk as a useful citizen. At Home, up to the time of the Boar war, the Volunteer was not considered in the light of an all-important personage. was not thought wrong by many to speak jestingly of his company as the "Royal Standbacks," and so cr. The long imunity from danger of invasion had and the effect of persuading the average Briton that there could be, in fact, no euch danger, and there fore the men whose avowed duty was restricted to fighting a foe who was unlikely to come fell in for that sort of chaff. For the rank and file, the effect of a red-coat oa pretty housemaids was appreciated; for the officers, were their coats not gaudio: still? And, anyway, as well that as another bobby. The startling discovery that there
On the s.s. Coptic's lost trans-Parifie voyage to Bougkong a man committed suicide by jumping overboard,
A Chinaman was yesterday xentenced to fourteen days' hard labour for stealing a junk anchor and pawning it at Yaumati for $2.
It
The oppointment of Mr. H. E. R. Hunter as Manager of the Shanghai Branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is offelally annonneed.
The 2.8. Gregory Aptar arrived from Col. cats yesterday. At sea on the 25th inst., in Lat. 14. 8 N, Loz. 110.7 E, she eupplied a Chinese junk with provisions.
http
any charged with carrying a revolver and Two Chinamen from Australis wore yester dagger respectively without a license. The former was hand 85 and the other SI.
میت
A stowaway from Singapore on the e.s. Foyle when charged yesterday, said bé was
an
cargo aml freight, including dennurrage, amounts to about £45,000. These two seizures incresso the amber of captures reported since January 13th to fourteen, on which the war risk in- surances covered by Lloyd's and marine companies
nount to nearly £900,000.
THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA.
THE PEACE PROSPECTS.
LONDON, 25th March. The partisans of peace are daily becom- ing more numerous, even in the official world, their hopes being based on the certainty that the Japanese conditions will be more onerous a few months hence.
GOLD STANDARD FOR CHINA
The Corinthian one-design yachts, owing to
Club Race on Sunday. Aftor the start thes went along to Mirs Buoy rounding as follows:
Aibernia... Nina Cam
Oael.
Waratah ...
II. M4
12 44 22 12 44 43 1245 蚱 $245 15 45 27 The boats made a particularly pretty picture at this stage of the race. Hibernia was for tunate in being favoured with a "cats paw while the tide was carry by the others, absolutely becalmed, to the ens
next point in' never reached. Hibernia still had
the race, Trocas Rook When the race was abam
a lead, closely followed by Waratah. The boats were towed home. The race will be re-sailed next Sunday,
To wages
$27,465,76
WORKING ACCOUNT.
$ c.
2,744.84
10,075.66
To reserve fund-
Au passed at meeting Flat March, 1904... 2,000,00
Practionery...
ddabta-..
To dividend
30 por vcni. passed at meeting 31st March,
3,600.00
To directors' fou
600.00
To furiatures and fixtures... Jäsuditer's focn
126.48
300,00
3,120,00
54.25
20,80
1900
$20.00
1001
347.30
1:402
237,00
3013
243.70
847.00
To balanse
8.171.74
$31,887.77
By balance brought forward from last se
.count......
6,921.51
By
interest
inlet and shop re
170.20
Lern cont of stuck...
$33,50%,76 8,710.95
21,786.8L 36
$31,967.77
$5,500,00
$
C.
3,500.00
2,000,00
$5,500,00
By transfer feet.......
To balance 31st December, 1974 ....... RESERVE FUND.
By Ilance 31st December, 1903 ... By added as per resolution passed 31st
March, 1901....
The fourth and last Club Race for Corinthian cruisers was sailed on Sanday, the course being from Kowloon Police Pier round a rock south- west of Kauiobow and back, twelve miles. Five boats started-Aileen, La Cigale Murjorie, Active and Elfin. Only two boats fiuished, their REPORTED FRENCH ANNEXATION times being as follows:-
Aileen
Marjorie...
F M. 0. 3 42 20 3
{
IN SIAM.
In reply to a letter from the Manchester Chamber of Commerce drawing attention to The erniser points for the season are as colonial party to induce the French Government reported movement on the part of the French follows:-La Cigale; 20'; Elfin, 14, Aileen, 19; Marjorie, 4; delive, 4., Dart, 2.
THE BUSINESS TAX IN MANILA.
A Manila business house has issued the following circular:
of Internal Revenue is that a merchant mast The now ruling in regard to the collection pay a quarterly tax on his gross sales; that is to may, he must pay on the total amount of his saiss, both cash and credit, Whether he can collect all his accounts or not, and not on the amount of cash be actually receives.
to const land on the Gulf of Siam of great strategie importance, commanding the entrance of the Menam River, and to the fact that ench annexation would be
a contravention of the Anglo-French Agreement of 1st Aprii, Lord Lansdowne states that the boundaries between French and Siamese territory were settled
itled in principle by the Convention between France and Siam of February 13 (which was of prior date to the Angle French Agreement of April 8), and by the protocol signed by the Franch and Siamese Governments in fulfilment of that Convention, fixing the points on the frontier The Chinese Minister presented, on the 18th
between the Great Like and the sea.
The pro February, through the President, to the United
tocol was not actually signed until June 29, but States, un oil painting of the Dowager-Empress
The merchant must keep a set of books the French Government had
4 publicly announced of China, saying "Recent events have proved
aatisfactory to the collector of this tax, and for so long ago as March last, and therefore that on the dieinterested friendship of the
the least deviation from this role, he will either before the signature of the Anglo-French Con A letter on the question of currency in China be charged with Attempting to Defrand the vention, that they held that the frontier should United States, China can place the firmest is addressed from Bankow to the Bleonounete Government, or Embezzlement; bacomo the reach the sea at Krat. leaving that port and
Francais The writer of the lotter elianes. The Empress, desiring to show in
recipient of
of a large amount of newspaper the sense of this friendship.
whole of signal manner
the
maritime coast in presence of all the inherent difficulties of the advertising of an undesirable kind, and possibly that
Routh-east offers her portrait." The President, accepting actual monetary systems of China, and of the with pleasure, assured the Minister that he character and customs of the population, vae
serve a sentence in Bilibid Prisco All this this effect had been already courayed to the to France, and that an intimation to and more might possibly result from a misinter- Siamese Government. So far as Lord Lans. rightly nuderstood the regard of the American arrives at the point of despair of over establish people. The assured him also that this mutual task will be long and hard, it does not Government for the Empress and the Chinese ing a gold standard in China. Though the possibly only an error.
pretation of the law or a misunderstanding, or downe is aware, the only question with regard to the boundary between the French and Siamese in all ways. friendship would be maintained and strengthened follow that it
A good reliable book-keeper costs not lees possessione now under consideration is that of impossible. The actual than P. 250.00 per
per mouth Lad a chit collector the actual domurcation of the frontier by the P. 150.00 the reults of the conditions of existence, past my customers, whom I could not con of the Convention.
month.
In the mixed commissione appointed under the terms modify themealves. little by little to the conveniently find, and some who did not pay thei
hor
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. The M.M. str. Armand Behic, with the next for this port ca Saigon.
the
of the
that
costs
Nto
ditions As modern industry penetrates into accounts on demand, have cost me
country, as railways run everywhere like and doubtless the influence that they ha
hare over arrows, as steam and clectricity, leave their their friends; all of which jujnres mo in a mark, the adaptation to
essential thing to see
to accommodate the
the new
were volunteers actually willing to volun. American coming to join the L.S. Navy. French mail, left Singapore yesterday at 4 pm, will not fail to be effected. rcumstances business way, simply because I have attempted
The case was remanded till Friday to give the defendant a chance of gotting into the U.8. Navy.
teer, for actual service; and that their services, when accepted, should have proved. of such signal service, changed all that. The value of a training hitherto never put number of cases for the year up to 22, adding The week's plague raturu brings the total to any real test became apparent at the same only one to the previous total. The one was a time that tho pessimists discovered the era Chiness imported from Canton. Other com- of peace had not reigned long enough to manicable disease recorded was small-pox, three stagnate the old fighting spirit that had put! Chinese cases, and one Indian, imported.
Fb: str. Siberia, with mails. As., from Eau Francisco to the 8th inst. via lionolain, Leaves Yokobams for this port via Robe: &c., this morning, the 28th innt, and is due boro ou the 7th April.
The C.P.R. str. Athenian left Yokobanis on Sunday, the 25th inst., p., for Victoria and lett Manila on the 27th inst, pm, and is due The C.N. str. Taiyuan, from Australian ports, hore to-morrow at daylight.
Vancouver.
WEATHER REPORT.
of
The Hongkong Observatory, yesterday issued On the 27th at 12.5 p.m. salesman to help do my
following report: xison on the E. coast of Chins and fallen over The barometer has
the S. coast and the Philippines.
10
at the present moment is to presipitate nothing, Also the absence of a bile by a texting credit. the and to leave the evolution to follow its natural collecting, at the busiest time of the month (the course. It is suggested that the daty of the Bret of the month), and the actual cost of Government of China is to resist the partisans conducting a retail credit business, entered into the actual social state of the population, can of instantaneous reforms and not entangle itself by a small merchant, being uut less than only be a course of perturbation and crises for has persuaded me to change my method of doing with measures which, failing an equilibrium sita P500.00 per consideration of the above facts
is te considered. A careful
the Government to immediately set to work my terme are atricly cash, and cash only. the people. It is equally, however, the task of business and, dating from the 1st of April, 1905, within possible limits,
There will positively be un exceptions."
Pressaro is high over N. China and relatively
par tits r. part of the China Sea.
China Ses and strong NE. winds will probably Channel and along the northern shores of the Gradients are rather stoep in the Formosa
prevail over those areas.
Forecast-Fresh or strong breezes, chiolly Easterly squally, thunderstorms.
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