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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES.

(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.] BRITISH NAVAL TOUR.. WORLD CRUISE ENDS.

Loxtos: October 1st. The Australian warship Äleinide which accompanied the British special service squadron home has been docked at Portsmouth. The otheers and men an

★ two days visit to London to-day were prerived the Admiralty by Lord Chelmsford, Mr. Thomas and ineribers of the Board of Admiralty.

Lord Chelmsford in warm terms of welcome, mentioned the new arrangement Wherely Britain and Australia will an nually exchange a cruiser.s

THE GERMAN LOAN. HITISH AND AMERICAN QUOTAS.

Losos, October 1st. Preliminaries for the German loan undertaken conjunction with the Bank of England and leading Amerienn bankers

THE

BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

HOUSE OF COMMONS REASSEMBLER.

OTHER QUESTIONS.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 1924

Loxtos, September 30th. The House of Commons was crowded and animated when it reassembled to

discitas the Trish Treaty Amending Bill Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was ministerially avated on entering."

THE LEAGUE. JAPANESE OPPOSITION

OVERCOME.

GENEVA, September 30th. The British, French and Italian jurists have agreed to the wording of the Article of the Protocol on which Mr. Adatchi had raised & difficulty. The terms of the wording are not yet known.

The difficulty raised by the Japanesé Though this was nominally-the-only by an amendment of the Article of the basiness of the special session there was disarmament Protocol relating to the the usual batch of questions. Mr. J. H. action of the Council in dealing with dis- Thomas, replying as regards the position putés involving the domestic affairs of a in a Iraq, emphasised amid Ministerial nation, and which threatend to wreck the Protocol, was overcome to-day, when the cheers that here was no question of a state of war between Britain and Turkey,Committee of Jurists restrafted the dis After detailing, the position he said that puted article and the Japanese withirew the British Government had not yet re- their amendment. The Japanese objec ceived a reply to its protests to the Tur.tion was overcome by reinforcing Article kish Government against the invasion.XI of the Covenant; namely, that the He added that the local authorities had Council is empowered to intervene with a view to the pacific settlement of dis- reported that the military situation was well in hand,

putes.

BARGE AGAINST AN EDITOR. A storm arose as a result of questions

After the Japanese difficulty had been overcome, the disarmament Sub-Commit tee met to complete the Protocol. Prior to this the Dominions delegation were con-

pre so advanced that the loan will probas rigards the dropping of the prosecusutted. Renter understands that they bly be dated" simultaneously througetion against Mr. Campbell, the Editor of were satisfied with the wording of the pro-

out the world in a few weeks.

share is fix t The American $100,000,000. The remainder will, be issued to European countries in sterling The apportionment to various countries has not yet been decided. The British quota will probably be in the region of £10-£13,000,000.

ARTICLES EXPLAINED. The end of the deadlock, when the Plenary Committe umatmously adopted the amendments to articles V. previously was greeted with loud and prokaged cheers.

posed formula as eliminating any appre the Borders Werkin, for alleged incite-hensions they may have entertained, while

satisfying the Japanese, ment of the Byhting forces to disobey arders. Sir P. Hastings said that as a result of careful investigation he had concluded that it was impossible to hold Campbell criminaly responsible for the publication. Sir P. Hastings mephatic- ally denied that his decision was in fluenced by outside representations,

THE CIVIL WAR

CHINA.

IN

[THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY.]

KIANGSU BOMBARDMENT,

SHANGHAI, October 1st Fighting on the Hwangtu-Lauho frent subsided yesterday, though the Kiangsu artillery kept up a "heavy bombardment along the whole line, specially at Hwangtu, but this was most ineffective

according to a Chekiang communique. which states that the positions are little changed,

It is reported that there was a little fighting outside Fengching, tear Sung- kiang, yesterday,

FENGTIEN TROOPS ATTACK!

Torvo, October 1st

A message from Mukden says that a general engagement has developed on the front this morning. Fengtien troops under General Li Ching Lin and General

Chang Tsung Chan have assumed the offensive, ne rding to a report from

headquarters.

CAPTURE OF KIEN CHENG.

It is reported from Makden that Kien chang has been occupied by a Fengtion army and several guns were captured.

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EASTERN

NEWS.

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MOSQUITO BITES. PROTECTION AGAINST THE WINGED PESTS.

LIFE IN OLD CALCUTTA, A writer in the Calgutta Englishman has heen enlightening the public as to what life in Calcutta was like for the

Prompt first-aid must be applied to European a hundred years ago. Follow-bites and stings, if the treatment is to bo ing are extracts from a recent article:- really satisfactory. When midges, gnats, remedy and mosquitoes are about, Emma Roberts gives the following should always be at hand. An exegliona account of the English quarter:

plan is to get a very small hottle (with wide mouth), soak a small piece of The houses are almost entirely de-sponge in date ammonia and quickly tached from each other, or connected transfer it to the bottle, closing the stops. only by long ranges of terraces, sur- per, which much be a ground-glass one." mounted. like the fat roots of the When stung or hitten, take the ag inge houses with balustrades. The greater out and squeeze a few drops of ammonia maer of these mansions have pillar on to the spot. The ammonia will at once in- el verandahs extending the whole way neutralise any neid the creature has up, sometimes to the height of threejected into the part. Carbonate of soda stories, besides a Jarge portico in front e is another useful remely. Made into a and these clusters of columns, long solution, it can be used in a similar way. colonnades, and lofty gateways, have a If the part gets infamed it must be fre very imposing effect, especially when quently bathed with hot baracic lotion

Starch in fine powder is helpful to allay interspersed with forest trees and flowering shrubs. The material of the irritation, especially when a large surface houses is what is known as packa, brick has been bitten hy gnats. It coated with cement, resembling stone, dusted on with a piece of cotton-worl. and even those residences intended for Resides soothing the part it will prevent a fresh attack. as all winged pests make families of very mollerate income. cover a large extent of ground and afford for the neighbourhood of former stings architectural displays which will be and bites but they do not like starch. fairly sought amid habitations beleng- ing to the same class'in England." At the same time, a mud hut, or rows of native hovels, constructed of niats, thatch and bamboes, not superior to the radest wigwam, often rest against the outer walls of palets," and avenues open from the principal streets, intersected in all directions by aptive bazars, filicu with unsightly articles of every descrip- tion. Moreover, obscrves Miss Roberts, few of the houses except these exclu sively occupied by Europeans, are kept in good repair.""

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Same bites and stings persist in being troublesome for days afterwards, especi ally if they have not been treated at the time, and a little simple cooling medicine will usually be very effective. Cold cream is helpful in cooling the infiamed park, and, attle starch can be added to it in proportion of about a teaspoonful to an ounce of the cream.

JULSTER BOUNDARY,

FREE STATE MINISTER STATES THEIR CASE. - SHIP CABIN FURNITURE SUFFICIENT. As for the interior of these palaces, Mr. E. J. Duggan, Parliamentary little is wanted besides the furniture Secretary to the Irish Free State Excel-

which has been used, for the babin on CABLE board ship and that little can be inmedtive Council and a signatory to the 1021 treaty which established the Free State

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Article V. previcusis provided that a Court of luternational Justice should de cide whether a dispute was solely within the disputant's domestic jurisdiction and the addition now made stipulates that an.

"ZANNI'S FLIGHT. affirmative decision by the Hagar Court will not prevent consideration of the

LEAVES FOR SHANGHAI. situation by the Council or Assembly un- der Article 11 of the Covenant.

Foornow, Dctober. 1st. Article VI. defines the aggressor,

Major Zanni has left here for Shang- inter aim, as a State resorting to war in contained olation of the andertakings

bni.

ATTACK ON MECCA. TRIBESMEN ON LOOSE BEIX. Mr. Rarusay MacDonakl intervened in subsequent heated „exchanges between CAIRI, Detaber Fat.

Conservatives' and Labourites and de- A meeting of Egyptian Press repres

clared that he was not willing to allow to telegraph to sentatives decided Sbusand, the Sultan of Nejd," whose the explanation of the real circumstances Wabali tribes are only a few miles for dropping the prosecution to be de-ag to war knowing that the dispute be

· from Mecina begging him to show human-layed till the Autum, "Eventually it was ity to the civilian population of the Hadjaz.

„A traveller from Meces confirms the ezitivul position of the city. Anarchy reigns and the pilgrims are flecing. Hus, sein las mobilised the police in connec tion with the transfer of the Government to Jeddah. The population are defcure- less against increasing robbery and

violence...

BARLIER CABLES,

THE, MOSUL TROUBLE.

LINE ESTABLISHED.

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Losion, September 30th. Renter" is informed dint the situation in Iraq appears to be that Turkish troops are still within the boundary of Mosul vilayet. They have burned "vit pages, but an offensive has been taken by British aeroplanes since September 24th. exerpt where the aeroplanes have first Jan Gred on. In the meantime, both sides have established a line whereon, it 11 is believed is unlikely they wil: clash. that Jard Thomson is at Masni.

BRITAIN'S PLEDGE.

GENEVA September Soch. At a Council meeting at walch a Mosul committer was appointed, Lord Parmour said that fresh information showed that the froutier situation was precarinus.

It

must be no disturbane, and gave a the solemn undertaking on, behalf of British Government on the matter. Fethi Bey gave a similar aysurance. was announced that both partirs would share the cost of investigation by the special committer.

arranged by all parties to debate the question next week when the Lords"are dealing with the Irish, Bill. Mr. Stanley Baldwin nisted that the Opposition might move a vote of censure on the Govern

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THE IRISH BILL,

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in moving the second reading of the Irish Bill, declared that if the Bill had not been introduced it would have been equivalent to the Treaty lapsing The Government had ex- hausted every effort 16 secure an agree-

A "BILL OF HONOUR."

in the Covenant of the Protocol or resort-

tween it and another belligerent State arises out of a matter which, by Interna- tional Law, is solely within the domestic jurisdiction of the latter State. The | Amendment says that nevertheless such a State shall only be considered an aggres question to the Leviously submitted the

sur if it has not

of the Assembly

An- Ender Article 11 of the coveant. ather Clause of the same Article defines the agressor also as a State violating the armistice order by the Council, and also empowers the Council to call upo the signatories to apply the prescribed The addition thereto BOW sanctions. made, provides that ang signatory thus called upon shall be entitled to exercise the rights of a belligerent,

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ARRIVAL AT SHANGHAI,

SHANGHAI October 1st.

Major Zanni has arrived. DUTCH, FLIGHT TO BATAVIA. START FROM AMSTERDAM.

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AMSTERDAM, October 1st. The Dutch airmen. flying to Batavia, started at 45. this morning.

N.Y.E. DISPUTE.

SETTLEMENT IN SIGET.

CONCRETE HOUSES.

Tokyo. September 30th. Both parties to the Nippon Yusen CORDIAL CONCILIATION.

Kaisha dispute have now endorsed the The solution of the Japanese difficulty. ment agreeable to both Irish parties and which has caused widespread relief and proposals for af withdrawal of the sta

satefaction, was reached after a meeting resignations. had not moved until it was convinced of British. French, Italian and Japanese jurists, after which the British Dominion that nothing else was passible.

delegates conferred and declared them- selves satisfied with the arw text. A very cordial spirit of conciliation prevail- Adatchi was deeply touched by the com mittee's sympathetic efforts to give him satisfaction, and declared that if all the committee men were ready to accept the articles hy was ready to do the same.

It is ascertained that throughout the discussions between the Dominions and Empire delegations the question of immi

The Irish plenipotenaries who ne gotiated the treaty claimed all Ireland- as the proper unit' of government.

ately supplied from the Inzars, it was the custom in those days for passengers in a statement on the Ulster boundary Ea furuish their calang. Str. Peter question, said: Cherry, a well known Madras Civilian of his time, and paymaster to the forces at the storming of Seringatan in 1799, wrote in this fashion to his three daugh:) ters in 151, on hearing of their inten tion to embark for Fort Saint George on the Grueral Harris, Indianan:-

Your cabin furniture, if ip has no other recommendation, is English and will always have a value increasing in proportion to your length of absence from England. I have now, most of any chin furniture which I bought ont in is11

The chairs and tables were usually of fine wood, handsomely carved, and the zofas were as a rule covered with satin damask but says Empina Roberts, cour fort and convenience being mure studied than appearance, there are few of those elegant, little trifles in the way of furni ture by which an upholsterer in London contrives to make a fortune. Mourahs ar hassocks were used in the houses and the wants of one is always felt most severely by every old inhabitant of In- dia."

strikes "One peculiarity stranger immediately as be enters a house in India inhabited by Europeans: all the sofas, chairs, and tables are placed at distance of a foot at least from the wall: a very necessary" precaution in a country abounding with insects and reptiles of all kinds." Again every side of the apart ent is pierced with doors," and the whole of the surrounding ante-chambers appear to be peopled with ghosts," meaning thereby the servants clad in

seem endless.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald appealed tod throughout the discussia Mr. SUPE FOR UNSKILLED LABOUR. Bowing white, garments whose numbers

all parties to help pass the Hill as-a Bill of Honour and made an appeal to Elster to be magnanimously loyal to its empact. upon the carrying out of which Irish peace depended.

વર્યાં.

Moving the rejection of the Bill, Mr. Reid took the orthodox Ulster line that o change of boundary should be made without the consent of the Government concerned.

gration never once arose.

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This representatives of Northern Ire land refused to enter upon discussions unless a proposal for the unification of Ireland, involving the coutinuance of De North- local self-government -in East, was previously withdrawn.

The Irish negotiators pointed out a large number of the injustice to people if the whole of Northern Ire- land ns then constituted were allowed to aeriale. A

The result was the inclusion in the treaty of the provisions for a com mission to determine the boundary in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants : far as may be compat ible with economie and geographical conditions."

We claim that the desires of the in- habitants of such areas should be ascer- tained and that a line should then be drawn by the commssion in such a wax na to give effect to those desires.

The swinging punkah in Calcutta is the dodo, Sir almost as extinct as

a'light Charles D'Oyly describes it as frame, of such length, na may suit the room, perhaps fifteen feet long, and four in depth, covered with chintz or colour- ed linen: being set in motion it agitates the air greatly and affords extreme ro freshment to such as are seated under its line of action,

PUNKAHS AND HEADACHER.

Persons unaccustomed to the pun- kah sometimes are attacked with head- aches, which however, in general grada- ally become less troublesome, after being babituated to the use of this very agreeable and highly useful machine. Care must be taken to examine the rope by which the punkah is suspend- ed, from time to time, as many have fallen in consequence of their action cutting through the ropes. Though E have witnessed several accidents of ther kind. I do not recollecterer scding. any person burt: the danges has gener- ally been limited to a few diabes, glasses, etc, being broken, or a table 'defaced."

The floors were covered with matting. but never boarded. Nor were ceilings in Str. The recent excitement in the use, the upper timbers being open to view House of Commons due to Mr. Wheather's and to these the Aarge frame punkahs statement as to the possibility of solving were ordinarily lung. The walls were the housing shortage by buliding with invariably plastered. with lime, laid very in sheets on timber framework, to smooth and finished. out with a trowel, so Me. Baldwin and Mr. Asquith an-

gether with letters by "x-Ministers of that the white did not rub off on to the Health and other notable persons in clothes. Sometimes the rooms - nuanced they would not oppose the second reading, the former stating that amend AUSTRALIA AND THE EAST. Your columns, whilst whetting public washed with colour to take off the glare. appetite for sensational disclosures, goes Captain Elers found hardly any glass win teals would be wayed in Committee ItsOT-WORTH PESHING-TRADE-no farther than emphasizing the difficul- dows in Aladras at the end of the eigh

ties of the situation.

teenth century and says that venetian was a tragedy that the boundary ques-

MaaDURSE, September 30th. After careful study of the matter for hinds and doors were substituted to get But tion had been raised at a time when the

The Commonwealth Board of Trade the past five years, during which period the benefit of the current of air."

that there. is nothing to have had practical experier of most. Sir Charles D'Oyly writing some twenty He emphasised that there whole of fretand was considerably, pucitatify their recommending to the Federal forms of special construction, I have years later, states that "the windows and

When was this very agreeable and Government that it should subsidise ships come to the conclusion that the problem now all glazed with glass got from to develop Australian trade in the East, can only be solved on lines which entirely Europe" und "such as face the sun are highly useful machine introduced into where apparently an anti-Australian ren-eliminate the bricklayer and plasterer, further provided with strong outside Calcutta1 According to Bholanath Chun-

der ("Travels of a Hindoo ") the inven timent exists. According to the Board of and at the same time give a structure venetians, which serve as shutters,'

to: was a Director of the Dutch Settle Trade, the higher Australian manufactur- that may reasonably he expected to last

ment at Chinsurah, who flourished at the Mr. MacPherson, who was Liberal Chiefing costs preclude competition with over 60 years, with walls that are vermin,

Mosquitoes abounded, and were a per-

close of the eighteenth century." Hasting: sens countries,

proof:

Nobody can guess what Secretary of Ireland when the 1940 Act

The iron sheet and timber frame type fect pest GERMANY AND MONARCHIC was under discussion, supported the re-

of house dork not fulfil the latter very these animals are till they have lived and Francis, it is certain, were denied wrute Emily Eden, in the doubtful solace which it affords, and amung them," AIMS.

necessary requirement, and for that rea

March 1836, a few days after her brother, were content with "flappers!! waved by sou alene it will be unsuitable for eree-

Lord Auckland, had been sworn in as boys, whose exertions might with a little TROUBLE OVER

tion in large numbers in crowded areas.

Governor-General. Many people have effort, be imagined to "produce a toler

alily comfortable artificial atmosphere. The only other, practical method (exclud

Dr. Busteed dates the swinging pankah ing brick built houses) ix by concrete beca laid up for many weeks by their bites on their first arrival. A week later

from an early year in the nineteenth cen methods of construction.

there is soother entry in her diary: "Si Charles Metcalfe, who bas been here for tury: but it may be noted that Grand and to Bengage to the Indian Creat was published" in 1803, thirty years, says they bite him now, as pre, whose " much as they did the first day, and many

was unknowi people seen to be confined for months found it in use in Calcutta in 1780. Bove after they first arrive, from the influm. years earlier, however mation of the biles." Bir Charles D'Oyly to Sophia Goldborne, the young lady who retailed her experiences in Hartly says:-

flouse," and whose description of th "Rappers" has just been quoted.

A NATIONALIST LEADER BERLIN, September 30th. The police authorities have vetued the release of Herr Hitter, alleging that while in confinemens he has actively participa ted in the reorganisation of illegal societies into one big brguusation, called the Fronthana, aiming at the over- throw of the constitution and restoration

of the Monarchy are excited at the non-

The Nationalists are release of their champion, asid the Bayn- rian police have been ordered to be ready for all emergencies.

BRITAIN AND SOVIET.

NOT RUDE YET.

Laspox, September 30th.

jection. He declared that a pledge was kiven to Ulster that she should be jeft | her six counties.

DEBATE ADJOURNED.

The debate proceeded very quietly and was adjourned.

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HOME LIBERAL PEERS, EARL BEAUCHAMP APPOINTED LEADER.

LoxpoN," September 30th, "Eart

Beauchamp has been elected lender of the Liberal peers in succession to Lord Grey, who has resigned.

ADMIRALTY PROMOTION.

LONDON, September 30th. Sir Frederick Field has been promoted Vice Admiral on the retirement of Ad

In the House of Commens Mr. Ramsaymiral H. L. Mawbag. MacDonald quoted Mr. Hodgson as his authority for a denial that the Soviet had shown him or any members of the diplo matic staff, any hostility.

HORSES FOR THE SOVIET. CANADIAN PURCHASES.

Admiral Mawhey lately commanded the Indian Station.]

LETHBRIDGE September 20th.

A thousand horses from ranches in Al- berta have been purchased by the Soviet Government and will be shipped immedi- ately to Ukraine for the Red Army,

MURDER OF MRS, EVANS. LONDON, September 30th.

FRENCH TAX ON GERMAN GOODS.

AN EXPLANATION:

PARIS, September 30th. The French reply to the German Note on the French taxes, points out that the twenty-six per cent. tox is the same that

Since 1920 hundreds of methods of cou.

erete construction have been patented is levied by Britain, and is mentioned in and tried out, but very few have emerg the Dawes plan, declaring that no addied successfully from the test of practical tional burden is laid on the German Gor-application.

Concrete methods divide ernment, and France does not intend to themselves into three distinct groups, lepirt from the Dawes, plan.

HARLIER CABLES. (REUTER'S AMERICAN, SERVICE. U.S. WORLD FLIGHT.

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GRANITE MEMORIAL.

SEATTLE, September 20th: The world-fiers feat is being comme-

morated with n monument of polished

granite Sfteen feet high.

S. PACIFIC RAILWAY. A

ADDING TO THE RAILROAD. In the House of Commons, in the course of explaining the situation as regards the

WASHINGTON, September 30th. murder of Mrs. Evans in Mexico, Mr. The Inter-state Commission has author. Ramsay MacDonald said that the two ised the Southern Pacific Railway Com- men who had voluntarily confessed had pany to acquire and control roads com- been committed for trial. Therefore the prising the El Paso and South Western Mexican Government had offered no system by stock purchase and lease, suh. amend and none had been demanded. ject to certain conditions.

namely:

1.-The concrete block method of con- struction (which requires the assistance of bricklayers and plasterers to n limited | extent, and therefore does not meet the

requirements mentioned)...

2-The concrete post and panel method. 3.The poured concrete method (in- volving the use of shuttering).

The two latter methods can be con atruced in such a manner as to eliminate the bricklayer and plasterer. and are, therefore, the lines along which success mast be looked for. They also have the advantage of reducing the use of the skilled labourer in all trades to the greatest extent, thereby making it poss ible to employ large bodies of unskilled labourers, thus helping to relieve unem ployment-I am, Sir

DOUGLAS WOOD, F.RI.R.A., F.S.T., Late Housing Commissioner to the Ministry of Health. 35, Oraven-street, Strand, W.C.,

August 20th,

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MOSQUITOES A PERFECT PEST.

"The mosquitoes may be heard to wards sunset swarming into the homes of Europeans, in full, chorus, humming as loud as a stocking weaver's loom. The natives rarely cook their victuals before that time, when the smoke drives away the mosquitoes: then getting on the wing, they throng towards the quar ter occupied by Europeans principally." At all times therefore the beds were furnished with curtains made of "kab bradool," "which is a kind of gauze manufactured from the refuse of raw silk, commonly dyed of a light green." Some times a very small frame punkah would be suspended within the bed curtains and would be moved by means of a cord pass ing through them into another room. Gir Charles D'Oyly "derived such pleasure and benefit from this construction that be wonders, the plan did not become general"

(Continued on nezt Column.)

PROTECTION FOR OIL LAMPE,

As a result of the punkah, candlesticks. and oil lamps were protected by glass guards, or shades. The earliest form, was a tall glass cylinder, which stood on the table, the wax candle or candlestick being placed inside. Ia later daya an inverted dome was employed which fitted into the candlesticks by means of am annular socket. Wall shades or sconcer were also common. These were brackets attached to the wall, bearing a candle or coconut oil lamp and man was some times called upon, asa challenge or by way of forfeit to empty one of these filled with claret. Some held two, and other three lights. The loftiness of the apart ments renders a strong illumination necer sary, and as cocoanut oil is very cheap all the bonses have the advantage of being well lighted,

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