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THE WAR ON BOLSHEVISM.

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RED FLAG AGAIN FLYING AT KRONSTADT.

HELSINGFORS, October 18th-

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The Red Flag was again Aying at Kronstadt this morning. The batteries at Krasnajagorks were active all night,

Fong.

CONFLICTING REPORTS.

THE HONGKONG, PAILY PRESS,

DENIKIN'S PROGRESS..

General Denikin, advancing on Moscow, has captured 20,000 prisoners in the past week, but he is not nearer Moscow since the capture of Orel, while be has still not recovered Kleff which a Bolshevist sur prise attack captured on October 15th. and where, according to a Bolshevist bulletin, the Red troops are pursuing the enemy amid the burning suburbs,

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BOLSHEVIKS TO DEFEND PETRO

GRAD TO THE LAST.

HELSINGFORS, October 20th.

It is now expected that Petrograd will be occupied before Kronstadt.

General Yadenitch's troops have occupi- ed the station at Ligovo, 13. miles from the capital, and have reached Putiloff, a railway junction in the suburbs.

LONDON, October 20th. The news in regard to Petrograd and Kronstadt is very conflicting, being based chiefly on Yudenítch' communiquéz and reports from Helsingfors and from Stockholm, which are not considered tooween Petrograd and Moscow by blowing

up a bridge over the Tosna river.. trustworthy...

In a communique, General Yadenitch claims that he has cut the railway be-

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PRESIDENT POINCARE.

NOT TO RETIRE FROM POLITICE

PARIS, October 17th.

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A Havas message sam:--- Replying to an address from the Bar- le-Duc Council, expressing the hope that after bis term of office as President of the Republic be would again become Senator for the Meuse Department President Poincare wrote:- Should an

oppertunity occur later for me again to represent the Department of the Meuse, which bas suffered so terribly from the war, I shall certainly consider it my duty got to decline."

SERBIA.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS ENDED.

BELGRADE, October 19th. The ministerial crisis is ended. The Dvedovitch Cabinet, whose resignation was cabled on September 14th.. remains in office.

The Bolsheviks have concentrated 20,000 The Russian Embassy in Paris an troops about Gdov on Lake Peipus and

The Serbo-Croat-Slovene Peace De- nounces definitely that, this morning, 10.000 near Petrograd They are deterlegation, headed by M. Paskitch, has gone General Yudeaitch occupied Petrograd,mined to resist to the lust.

to Paris.

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FATE OF KRONSTADT AND PETRO- GRAD STILL UNCERTAIN.

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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER

23RD, 1919.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEIT. ]

WAR MINISTRY'S BUDGET

REDUCED.

PEPING, October 1st. discussed to-day in the House of Repro The Budget of the War Ministry was

sentatives. A reduction of twenty per sent on the total expenditure was decid- ed upon.

OUTER MONGOLIA'S" AUTONOMY

dence.

week.

SUICIDE OF EUROPEAN POLICE-SERGEANT.

1.

SPORT GOLF

ROYAL HONGKONG» GOLF CLUB. A mateb in the semi-anal round of the Championship of the Colony was played, yesterday. A. B. Stewart defeating Major Leslie Smith by 3 up.

played on Friday, and the final will be The other semi-final match between S. H. Dodwell and Lieut. Col. Coles, will be

on Sunday.

divided

LADIES SECTION.

Entries for the Railway Cup (Ladies' singles handicap at Fanling) will close on Monday, November 10th, at Fanling and Happy Valley.

HOCKEY.

HUNGKUNG B.C. STAFF AND DEPARTMENTS.

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NOT RUINED BY THE 'WAR! U.S. EXPERT'S CHEERY VIEWS.ON

EUROPE.

In war' or in peace, the world, taken as a whole, pays its bills in full every night it goes to bed, and is must cca- tiaue to do so until it establishes com munication with the Man in the Moon

to Ruin, this cheery message may prove a and imports green cheese pa credit." At a moment when Europë is generally believed to be well advanced on the Road

valuable antidote to the prevailing pessi- xism and all the more so as it comes. Croshy, president of the Inter-Allied from no less an authority thap Mr. Dicar Council on War Purchases and Finance, and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Tren sury during the war period, and a resi- dent in Europe from 1917 to 1919.

Mr. Crosby bases his conviction that Europe has not been crushed by the war ca. the facts that peace finds the world

with

A larger production" plant (including agriculture) than it had in 1914,, and probably having value greater than its losses.

supply of labour possibly more cfti- seat than, and almost as numerous as, it had in 1914. Resources in raw materials sufficient for

the present needs of the race.) No considerable

dle couses, excepting mereu. chant ships destroyed, the wear and tear on railroads, and the devastation wrought battle areas.

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TO BE CANCELLED.

A movement has been inaugurated for the cancellation of the autonomy of Outer Mongolis, provided China undertakes the responsibility for all foreign loans con- tracted. The movement is expected to exercises a good impression on

the The first hockey match of the season Tibetans, who are disposed, to indepen-was played on the Military ground at Happy Valley last evening, when a strong Little Hau" leaves for Urga next eleven from the newly-formed Hongkong Hockey Club-which arose, out of the ashes of the H.K.D.C. Hockey Club- beat the Staff and Departments team by the best goal in five. The condition of the ground was such that good play was impossible, the ball being "sometimes fountains of metal and other mater almost hidden in the long grass. This rials have been shot away in the war

it will, of course, be remedied in time for is true," says Mr. Crosby in the New the next game, and the result will be no prepared for. that very purpose.

Yerk Work,but they were dug up and. doubt, a faster and a more scientific ing them away bus impaired what may be Shunt-

exhibition.

called our undeveloped plans accepit- chipped something of the tar end of our Taken as a whole, the Club were the stick of candy-cut that is a lows superior team, and would have won by ashan's feel till we get to that far end, if It appears that the Sergeant was a bigger margin but for the very persistent

BILITAIN'S POSITION. duty in the afternoon, as usual, and did and determined defence of the Military On the other hand, each of the prin nog sem to be depressed at all.

Lalves and backs. The Club opened the cipal belligerent nations has vastly in-

creased its mechanical capacity for pro returned at about 5 pm, to the No. 7 hot drive from close quarters during

scoring, K. Mackenzie sending induction, Police Station, where he was stationed, meise in front of the Military citadel. chant ships, while her power to replace "England's biggest loss is that of mers and, after marking himself off, went to mettle, and their efforts were rewarded loss will soon be more than made goud. This put the Military-men on their those abips is so much increased that the the lavatory. Suddenly a revolver shot by a goal scored by Knight. Before ball- Her railroads, like those of every other runde and Balceros, and taken many INDIAN OVERSEAS ASSOCIA- donald went to the place he discovered to one at the interval.

was heard, and when Inspector Martime, Edmonds added a second goal for country, have suffered a lot of wear and the Club, who were leading by two goals at is its rond bed; and all road beds

tear, but the larger part of prisoners and much booty.

railroad's

ENGLAND SCORES ANOTHER

VICTORY.

LONDON, October 19th.

after the evacuation of the Red Army, bus authoritative Russians in London da j not anticipate the inunediate fall of the city, and a Bolshevik wireleen claims the recapture of Gatchina and Krasnoeselo, after which the Soviet Army started a Beports of the fall of Kronstadt and England won the second victory inter- counter offensive "which promises tril Petrograd are still unconfirmed in Lon-national match against Wales by 2 goals

Hint results.***

General Yudenitch's dash to Petro grad was probably carried out with light forces. He advanced very rapidly

at the outset, covering 40 miles in two days. Therefore a halt was necessary to enable supplies to come up.

General Yudenitch's army is small for such an enterprise as an attack on the capital. It is advancing on a long front

from Narva to Pakof supported by Esthonians and Letts on both flanks. Dificulties with these adherents have al- ready developed.

Similarly, the rapidity of General Derikin's advance his "not left his rear

ton, secure against General Petlurn's how- Lile Ukrainians.

A despatch from the Ukrainian Pream Bureau to Copenhagen indeed claims that .the Ukrainians have stopped General Denikin's offensive, also that many of the latter's troops have joined General Pettura and that this weakening of his anti-Bolshevik front resulted in the loss of Kieff.

Thus the Bolsheviks may not improb ably be biding their time, or, in Kruger's phrase, waiting till the tortoise puta out its bead to strike a

na was done blaw, successfully on previous cecasions.

Military experts are now of the opin ion that if General Yudenitch and Gen- eral Denikin do not recover quickly, the fall of Petrograd and Moscow may not be expected before spring.

The extent of the fronts affected are indicated in a Bolshevik message; report- ing fighting in the region of Lepel, 100 iniles south-east of Drinsk, also west of) Kiefer, east and south-east of Voronesh and with Admiral Koltebak in Siberia,

don.

Lexbox, October 18th.

The bombardment of Krasnajagorka probably occasioned the Helsingfors re

parts of the former, while the captire of Gatchina, Krasnoemelo and Krasnajagor- ka leaves General Yadenitch's road to the capital no longer barred by fortresses.

to ni The match was played at Stoke.

OBITUARY

VISCOUNT ASTOR"

LONDON, October 18th. The death is announced of Viscount

Meanwhile the Letts are turning the Astor

They tables on the Germans at Riga. have captured, after a fierce battle, Duna-

Allied craisers are participating in the operations.

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TION.

The Germans continue to INAUGURAL MEETING IN LONDON. bombard Riga.

Reutar's correspondent at Helsingfors says that the Diet has formally refused to entertain the Bolshevist Peace offer.

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INDIAN FRONTIER FIGHTING.

WANA WAZIRS CAUSE TROUBLE.

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SIMILA, October 10th,

A gathering of Wana Wazirs, 300 strong, attacked a reconnaitring party

LONDON, October 18th.

formed with the object of mäintaining An Indian Overscar Association has been

the rights, privileges, and protection of interests of Indians residing outside India.

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NO MOTIVE FOR THE BEEN. Some consternation was felt in Police circles, on Tuesday night, when the news was circulated that European Sergeant C. Robertson had shot himself fatally with revolver.

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that the door had been barred from in- sid

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WILS

aver."

The case

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deposits have not been seri-

Play slowed down in the second half are ineral intact. England's soil It was forced open," and Sergeant scored a third goal for the Club from a ously depleted by the war, while her skill

a while, but only till Evans had and Robertion found lying fatally magnificent drive which gave the goal in exploiting them bas been increased wounded with a bullet wound through awuled their efforts to score after thus, demands, but wide publicity of discussion

keeper no chance.

The Military re- She is embarrassed by unusual labour the right temple, penetrating the brain. and the Club's three backs (they played is slowly revealing the necessary limits of

He was immediately, removed to the

without a goal-keeper) bad an anxious change 1 France is much the same,

conditions. ten minutes. Kaight all but scored fooyment Civil Hospital, where he died again, while Horrocks, playing dastingly, while Germany is "well of except as lo four hours after admission.

beat the Club

more than once, but her merchant marine, which has not been could not net the bail. About Eye minutes The Police are at a loss to account for before the end of the game, Horrocks, hothers. Her industrial plants are in- lost to the world, but transferred to - Lord: Carmichael, presided at the inletter behind which might give a clue to deed, as the "deceased has left no

abeer hard play, scored a goal. thus won by three goals to two. augural meeting, at which were also Lord is motive, neither did he appear to be who have much more than a workable ing to say about the world's food situa- The CBD teams contained some playera Mr. Crosby also has something interest- Clyde, the Hon. William Ormsby-Gore, troubled." The Police believe that the de- kaowledge of the game, though they strition: M.P., Colonel Wedgwood, M.P., and also celeed, who had been on a few days' leave Railton was undoubtedly the best of the

have to be seen on a rast ground, What the world" produces in food it Sir Krisha Gupta, Sir Mancherjib in the New Territory, had suffered an

consumes every year, no matter whether three backs, for he showed extettent there is pence or war. The nations did Sowangree, and Messrs. Sastri, Chinta attack of sunstroke, resulting in tem-jagment ia intercepting passes, in got prepare for war by storing up food mane, and Ramachandra Rao.

porary mental derangement.

stemming the incursions of the opposable. Mankind lived during the war on for the worms to devour. Food is perish- forwards, and in driving as powerfully what it raised during the war. as the ground wound atlow. Mitchel

It will There played a very consistent game at centre the same this year and next. calt, and ved his, forwards well.

is a bard pinch in some places at present," The

Manghi and Luni on October 3th. The casualties were 20 killed and His Highness the Aga Khan was elected missing, including one British officer. chairman of the Executive Committee, The my lost heavily. A columa from Mr. Bhownaggree to the Deputy Chair Kaur Bridge,

on October 6th, engaged, and Mr. H. S. Polak as Hocurary See the same party, then estimated at 600 retary... strong, near Maghi, and Erst drove them back to the hills, but, later, apparently fell into an ambush. The column only reached Kaur Bridge after heavy fight, ing. The casualties are believed to be approximately so including two British and one Indian medical officers killed.

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PRESIDENT WILSON'S

CONDITION.

OPERATION NOT NECESSARY,

WASHINGTON, October 17th. This evening President Wilson's condi- A fresh column with guns proceeded to tien is definitely improved. A prostatic Manghi on October 8th.

AVIATION,

in the neighbourhood of Petropavlovak, AMERICAN TRANS-CONTINENTAL Kurgan and Tobolsk

The fate of Kronstadt is still obscure.

4 Yudenitch communiqué yesterday

RACE.

operation will not be necessary.

FATE OF THE EX-TSAR.

Fact."..

THE WORLD'S FOOD.

a service of nearly five years in the Force. Club forwards showed good combinations there has been many times before; but

FUNERAL..

The deceased came from Scotland and was about 27 years of age. He counted

Two of these he spent on war service in though at times Edmunds and Macken the crops now being harvested will take France, only "returning to the Colony were inclined to pass erratically. Evans

us, over the peak of privation," was the best forward on the field. Wood. this expert takes the view that paper Speaking of the financial situation, about two months' ugo. He was un- did not have very much to do, for Ed debts and currency tangles are quite dis- married.

monds sent the ball always to Evans at tinct from real resources and resourceful- Wood's expeas.

ness, and in this connection Mr. Crosby The funeral took place, jesterday even-

A feature of the Military team's play telle story with a was the excellent tackling of Bundle and ton he had in Borneo with some natives a moral of a conversa- ing, at Happy Valley and was of a semi. Scoular, who time after time stopped the who had never seen a white man before military character. The gun-carriage advance of the Club five in the pluckies: possessed was a Chinese gong, which they

The only civilised commodity

they Scouler, indeed, proved an on which rested the coffa, covered with adept at robbing his opponents of the ball used to anmmon the villagers from the theglinion Jack-was drawn by a numberThe halves were mediocre, doing much of forest. Sometimes they would kill a wild

their work by blocking their opponents Pig in the woods.

ad driving out. Horrocks and Knight were the pick of the front string.

The teams were follows:- Staft and Departments Cpl. Glenny, ler, A.P.C, S. Ms. Gallagher, L/Cpl. R.A.S.C., Capt. Bundle CF., Sgt. Scon- Knight, R.A.S.C.. L/Cpl. Kirby, RAMC., Cpl. Horrocks, K.A.M.C., Filmer, R.A.M.L. Srt. Connor. R.A.0.C., Ptes Rhodes and

of Pulice Bergeants. Immediately behind followed the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.S.P., Mr. C. G. Perdue, A.S.P., Chief Inspector Kerry and Inspectors Kent, Macdonald, Watt, Grant, Gordon, and Davitt. The European, Indian and Chinese members of the Force and the detectives and warders brought up the rear of the procession. The funeral ser-

Manner.

asked

sistd.

How much is a pig worth?'

Agong,' they answered. How much is a gong worth 1 I in-

A pig,' they replied."

"So we must not be confused by money and the state of national finance," says Mr. Crosby.So long as people have pigs to trade for gongs or pig-iron for sinoked herring they are seente. Europe Hongkong Hockey Club.-F. Scarbor- not only has such things to barter, but vice was conducted by the Rev. J. Kirkh. C. C. Hickling, W. W. Mackenzie, has learned how to produce them in Maconachie.

M. L. Railton, E. J. R. Mitchell, G. H. greater quantit.es than ever." -M.E. Piercy, C. Hodgson, A. E. Wood, W. H. Edmond, B. D. Evans (Capt), and A. K. 'Mackenzie.

AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT. Renter's Agency has received details of a report, drawn up by a French officer em MINOLAS, October 19th.ployed in an official French capacity in Lieutenant Maynard landed, to-day, claimed the capture of Krasnajagorka, from San Francisco-the Brst to accom-murder of the Tsar and the Russian South Russia, giving what are stated to be the authentic circumstances of the while an authoritative British statement plish the return trans-Continental fight. on "supplied by one of the de...

Wreaths were sent by the Hon. Mr. E. simultaneously issued from Helsingfors Ten competitors have up to now been

family The report is based upon D. C. Wolfe, Mr. C. G. Perdue; the No. denied "that it had fallen to the British killed in this rice, in which the winner which the Hoyal family was detained, Detective Staff; No. 2 Police Station; of soldiers detailed to guard 1. Police Station; Constables Mese, the Dom Ipatieff, at Ekaterinburg, in Cental; P.Cs Mess, Water Police; covered 5,402 miles in 30 hours flying time,

under the orders of a Jewish Commissary

Jourovaky. THE FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA.

Police Mess; Detectives of No. 7 Police little alter midnight on July 17th. Station; Sergeants Mess, Central Police 1918, the Tsar, Empress Alexandrovna,

the Grand Duchesses Olga, Station; Yaumati Police Mess; European and Tatiana and the Grand Force, Shauki Wai Sergeants Me,

fleet.

A.Bolshevik mesenge, yesterday assert ed that the British feet operating.against Kronstadt, were repelled by the fire of the land batteries, yet the British Admiralty says it is not aware of British naval attacks on Kronstadt.

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PARIS, October 17th.

A Havas message says:—

THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

REPLACING OF GERMAN MISSIONARIES.

Hamed

the

veenia, with the Court physician.

Warders; Chinese detectives; Sergeants” Mess, No. 7 Police Station; Chief Inspec- tor Kerr, Inspector and Mrs Goryard'; Icepector and Mrs. Agus; Inspector and Mrs. Gordon: Inspector and Mr. Davitt Injetor Macdonald; Inspector and fr. Rent; Sergeants Pitt; Ogg, Rawson tod Marks.

Duchess M. Poulet, the French airman flying to Dr. Botkine, and three servants, were Water Police; Interpreters of the No. 7 Australia, reached Centoselle aerodrome house. There was not even the formality

taken into an underground room of the Police Station; No. 5 Station Mess; In at Rome, the end of the second stage of of an examination or interrogatory. All spectors of the Detective Staff; European his fight, yesterday.

His biplano is the members of the party were perfectly calm, and the Emperor carried his son. working well...

who was

was unable to walk through illness. in his ar

When were assembled in the room. Jourovsky, with another Bolshevik leader and nine Lettish soldiers, threw them selven upon their victims and massacred them with revolver shots. The French officer's informant (bis name is withheld for obvious reasons), who was on sentry duty in the street

treet before tbo

house, where A HAVAS message says:-

he had been specially stationed Jourovsky to note to what extent the noise by The Pope bas granted an official sitting diately rushed down to the scene of the 3,600 Portuguese soldiers are said to have of the murder was audible outside, imme Ahundred thousand Americans and ta. Commodore Shinscio Yamamoto, in massacre, where he saw the eleven bodies

covered in blood, Jying in tumbled max on the Boor, married Frenchwomen recently. If the Only the Tsarevitch was still alive, and proportion is the same for other Allied one of the murderers finished him with a troops in France, about one soldier in revolver abot at point-blank range. 30 has taken home a French bride

INTELLIGENT ANTÍCIPATION.”

LONDON, October 18th. Naval and Military" circles in London pereiat in considering the reports of the surrender of Kronstadt as merely intelli- gent anticipation, but admit that Petro- graul is so closely invested that little abort of & miracle will save the capital. "The capture of Gatchina and Kras- noesclo are admitted by the Bolshevista, while the War Office states that the Batbonians to operating with General regard to the replacing of German mis Yudenitch are within four miles of sionaries in the Mariannes, Carolines and Krasnajagorka, facing Kronstadt.

Marshall Islandı.

ROME, October 17th..

CRICKET.

AEROPLANE FLIGHT TO

AUSTRALIA

CIVIL SERVICE. INDIAN R.C.

A British acroplane was to have left London on September 8th., en route to Australia. The airmen are ex-Flight The undermentioned team will repre- Commander H. A Rigby. sent the Civil Service C.C. in a League Force, and his assistant, Mr. R. J. F. Royal Air

Club on the Civil Service ground on match against the Indian Recreation Bryce. The flight is an oficial effort, Saturday at 2.15 p.m.:-

under the auspices of the Air Ministry and the Admiralty, and 18. до Hutchison, Dr. Smalley, W, A. E Wood, the trail" for

Hor. Mr. C. Bovern (cap). R. O. being carried out with a

a view

to "blazin the

in the coa- J. Ling, B. W. Bradbury. R. C.

competitors test open to Australian airmen for a Witchell. H. E. Strange, J. 8. Fletcher,

offered

Commonwealth Government prize by the for dight from Britain. Australia.

The provisional route from London is by the following stopping places: Turin, Rome, Otranto, A thens, Alexan- aria,

Damascus, Baghdad. Bushire, Allahabad, Calcutta, Akrab. (Burma) Baader Abbas, Gwadur. Karachi, Ajmir,

(950 miles) or (340

G. H Piorcy and W. H. Edmonds,

C.B.C. 2. XI. o. K.C.C. - The following

will 2nd XI, against K.C.C., of Kowloon, at represent C.R.C.

Chan Hin Lee, Lo Man Pan. Lee Man $15 p.m. on Saturday:Wan Is Shing, Kwong, Lei Kuen, Hung Han Chitwoo Pak Fak, C. F. Lee and Wong Pe Keung. Kwok Leung Cheung Wing Kui. Wao

FOOTBALL.

HONGKUNG F.C. . POLICE... The following will represent the Hong- Foilce, on Saturday (kick-off, 4.30 r.m. kung tub in a friendly game with the on the Club ground: Rodger; Ralston and Carrière; Railton, Stewart and Mackhail; Knight, Pasco, Heichelman, McTavish (Capt.) and Rodger.

&

Rangoon to

Penang.... Singapore

Batavia Banjuwangis

(600

(350

(650

Kapang (Timor). (850- Port Darwin (540)

> or

Dijon,

It may be mentioned that three sizes. Government's prise, the machines being bad been received for the Commonweal b #Ronwith Martinsyde-Hinckler, "Dove" and a Blackburn Rolls-Ro "Kangaroo" biplane. This competitor will likely commence soon after the ter Eight is completed..

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