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COUNTY CRICKET.

BOWLERS HAVE THE UPPER HAND.

INTERNATIONAL CHESS

CONGRESS.

BRITAIN THIRD.

LEADING COUNTIES "SHAKEN UP."

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGISTOY.] »

LONDON, July 29th:

A formidable battle of brains has Rain stopped several of 'the mid- week matches in England and onbeen proceeding for a fortnight at

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 1st. 1927.

THOSE SPORTING PITCHES DE VALERA THE TROUBLE.

DANGERS OF THE NATURAL" WICKET.

DOUBTING OLD TALES.

[BY J. W. HEARNE. }

MAKER.

BOLSHEVIK CRISIS.

TROTSEY'S PREDICTION.

ON THE EVE OF BLOODSHED.

JURY MENTALITY OF THE

COMMONS.

SIR LESLIE SCOTT EX- POUNDS A CANADIAN LESSON,

“SOMNAMBULIST ORATORYTM OF SIR ALFRED MOND.

A SWISS. "FRIEND" OF ENGLAND.

LIVELY CROSS-EXAMINATION ON-WAR CLAIM.

AN ABUSIVE LETTER.

Walking along the terrace of the the damaged wickets the bowlers Westminster, in the faternational Lord's pavilion during the Middle had very much the upper hand. Chess Congress, to which 18 Euro sex game with Notts was remind- Only two centuries were acored, pean and South American coined by not one but several people the matter of the exclusion of the Berlin correspondent of the Daily of the most interesting discus- Trade Department's

ratt, the latter being particularly deadly.

tries sent powerful teams.

The order of finishing of the countries securing the first places is as follows:-

Hungary, 40 points. Denmark, 38 Britain, 361 Holland, 33

Woman Champion.

the

оде

reftamallito

proceed to secure the 73,000 signa ternationa! was the result of amade, for Sir Arthur Steel-Mait, much as £16,000 worth of goods,"

tures necessary to demand that provision be made to enable the people themselves to move in the matter of the Oath.

The Referandum.

Sir Leslie Scott has the credit of put forward in this claim as an

A good second innings score while championship of the world, which so behaved I am at a loss to say laws and constitutional amend- torium, was very warmly applaud-which gave rise to the concession. has always been loyal and friendly.

Rhodes and Macaulay proved un- playable. P

was won by the 21 year old player, Vera Menchik, & Credbo-Slovak re sident of England, scoring 10f out. of a possible 11 points

AN APPEAL TO THE LAW: COURTS AND A REFERENDUM,

FIANNA BAIL. DEPUTIES. - The first real news with serious pretensions to authenticity about In reply to a Press inquiry as to the acute internal crisis in Russia

The War Compensation Court whether the Fianna Fail Deputier comes from the Moscow correspon-

heard the claim of Mr. William Gabriel Gschwind, a Swiss, trad- intended to present themselves at

Although-on account of Ascoting as Mesars. Gschwind and Com plied in the negative.

Sotsialisticheski Fiestnik, which the House of Commans did not pany, Deansgate, Manchester, to Leinster House, Mr. De Valera re dent of the chief Megahevik organ,

He stated further that legal ac is published in Berlin, says the throb with Hife, we had

about £50,000 na compensation for tion would probably be taken in

loss of busins due to the War that at last we were playing oric forty-five Deputies recently from Telegraph. · that by Tarbox for Worcester, on a

sions that the Trade Unions Billgrant him licences during the war It has resulted in Hungary comket on such a pitch as players had the place of meeting of the elected

cotton fabrics to.. export According

and to this authority, has hitherto provided, writes Mr. material to neutral markets on the bowlers wicket, and against players

in the good.old days.

representatives.

Simultaneously with the legal Trotsky's speech in the Executive Leslie Hore Belisha, M.P.

Continent like Larwood, Richmond and Baring first, with 40 points.

proceedings, Fianna Fail would Committee of the Communist In-

Mr. Gschwind, said he had as: Moreover, a great advance. Was four. Then I kept my tongue in my cheek. Now I will venture to say

neither contraband nor conditional that I cannot believe it. The Isat

joint decision of the Bolshevik Op-land-in charge of the Bill for the contraband, held up at one time. Altogether, the "giacts" bad a

that cricketers lived to a ripe old

position. The speech was deliver-Arst time-announced on behalf of He claimed for loss of profits in severe mauling. Yorkshire seram-

ags entirely discredits them

ed with grant vehemence in both the Government that a committee damage to goodwill of business three or four months, and also for bled home against Northants but

Daring that game even

the French and German languages, would be appointed to investigate £96,000. V. W. C. Jupp, who is great form

medium-paced bowlers were respon- The Free State Government had

was listened to with breathless methods of arbitration in indus-General, far the Crown: You are Sir Douglas Hogg, the Attorney- this year had the Tykes dismissed

A feature was a sideline women's i aible for batsmen having to retire let the specified term of two year tention, and, despite the efforts of trial disputes Then the

to the pavilion with injuries.lapse without making provision for an unhappy 67.

Exactly why the pitch should have for the initiation by the people of the Stalinites to pack the audi-having introduced the new clause esteemed citizen of Manchester who Yorkshiremen recovered, they made tournament, for the new woman's

ments, and, by Article 43 of the Constitution, they must, on a re-

ed. It was followed by active lob He speaks with such convincing to this country?—Yes,

Sir Douglas: I want to see the quest by 15,000 electors (of whom bying on both sides, in the course earnestness that his proposals are

difficult to resist. Obviously he sort of letters you were not more than 15,000 shall be from

of which Trotsky declared that the had prepared his case, with care about the officials of this country any one constituency), make such provision or submit the matter to yes of himself and his supporters and investigation, and he spoke about whom you entertain such a referendum.

were already in danger. Replying learnedly of the results of arbitra loyal and creditable sentiments

tion in Canada.

The Attorney-General read Once the power of direct legis-

But how much more irresistible tracts from letters sent by the lation and amendment of the Choto question by a French delegate; stitution lies in the hands of the he said: "I maintain that the this ex-Solicitor-General would be claimant to certain high officia people, Mr. De Valera is certain Politburo (the ruling camarilla) is if he could speak with more in one written to the Home Secre on the eve of a bloody settling of this makes people complain that

vitality He lacks emphasis, and tary, he complained of that the barrier of the Oath will

The is a trifle "dry." The method "It is only the Imperialists and accounts with the Opposition. 60-

serves for the House of Commons "who want the Oath, and when

are a method and manner suited to the Court of Appeal rather than dealing themselves with this ques

· The Bolshevik Old Guard. tion they will settle it very expedi the people get an opportunity of

to the jury. And the House of Commons has a jury mentality. It The threat to the life of the oulikes to hear a man who knows tiously."

standing figure in the Opposition what he is talking about, but it moved its members to units in his likes him to know how to talk

about it. defence. They decided that the

Artist in Circumjocation. members of the Bolshevik

The official opposition "—this" Guard" who belonged to the Op-new title is creeping into recogni- position should memorialise the tion-was represented by Mr. Central Committee of the party. Clynes is an allocution mere suitable to a Minister desiring proposal. The manifesto, as first handed to politely to rejecta the Politburo on May 24th, was Never was one word used where signed by eighty-four names.

At two could be found..

If circumlocution were ava the head of the list of signatures Mr. Clynes would be a great artist. those ot Trotsky He is impelled to think," "con appeared Zinovieff,

strained to deny," and if you sur- Piatakoff,

prise him in the middle of a sen- tence, you will always find him..

or "on the on the one hand " other."

Notts lost first innings "paints to Worcester of all people. Root-was at his deadlient and Tarbox, as mer- tioned, played the innings of his life. Warwick and Sussex gave thei two London teams a "shake up " Middlesex being badly outplayed.' Howell, who, has returned to the

I appeared very much as usual, but lookers-on told us it was & natural pitch, and a sporting one Sporting If our cricket had to be played on such pitches, then I can say that a professional's life would be short and not sweet. NOTTINGHAM OUTPLAYED BY Few would see a season through. It is useless for the old-timers and critics to tell players of to day that W. G. Grace, Shrewsbury, "Bill" Gana, Stoddart and the other masters had to meet Tom

WORCESTER.

Root and Tarbox to the Fore. Thanks to some excellent bowling

Midland side did the damage with by Boot and a century by Tarbox Richardson and "Bill" Lockwood the Cosgrave party," he said, venture to think that I know the and manner, in short, which he re

·his "expresses.

It is often asked "who are Eng

·laad'ı "

bowlers and the recent matches have been providing an Rhodes seems good as ever, Root, Mercer and Jupp also

answer.

serious set

on

such wickets. Richardson, Kortright and their kind would have had other names than fast bowlers if they had bowled on many wickets like that seen at Lord's.

I admit that I did not experience

LORD'S AT ITS BEST.

the lowly Worcestershire team were able to give Notts back at Nottingham, by securing the majority of points for a first innings lead. It was a bowler's match and Boot in the home county'e first innings had six wickets for 66, the total being the any untoward happening myself. poor one of 134. Following up this I did not stay out there long good work in the field the Notts tough. Two great catches in the total was passed Tarbox playing slips for 0 and 1 finished me, but [SY FRANK MITCHELL, CAPTAIN OF THE The principal individual perform an extremely fine innings of 109. I can say that no batsman is Barratt bowled extremely well and quicker in avoiding rising balls took eight wickets for 33. In the than Headren, and he found it a second innings Notts did better but physical impossibility to dodge they were very far from being in them. a winning position when stumps were drawn.

come out well

arces were «.

Batting. Shepherd (Surrey) Tarbox (Worcester)

126 109

Bowling.

8 for 53 6

21

21

H

Barratt (Notts)........ Jupp (Northante)

Mercer (Glamorgue) ... 6

2213538253

Haat (Bomerset)

Howell (Warwick).

61

Root (Worcester)

660

Macaulay (Torkshire) 5 Rhodes (Yorkshire)

34

>1

#1

And.....

YORKSHIRE BEAT NORTHANTS.

Jupp, Macaulay and Ehodes Unplayable.

Yorkshire are great at recoveries and it was good for them that they are. Having "made a wretched 87 runs against the Northants team at Northampton it appeared that, with a deficit of nearly one hundred runs on the first innings, the ex-cham- pions were to suffer yet another defeat.

A second innings recovery on the part of the bowlers and batsmen, however, gave them a victory by five wickets.

Jupp showed great form with the ball and, he captured seven wickets

for the loss of 21 runs.

Ebodes and Macaulay made vie tory possible for Yorkshire. The veteran was responsible for the dis- missal of four batsmen in the first innings, giving away only 37 runs

Score-

His left arm was badly bruised, and at one time I feared that the bone of his forearm was cracked. Notte: 134 and 218 (for B. Once he missed a terrific blow under the jaw by a hair's breadth. wickets).

I'm sure if I had been in his shoes Worcester: 187,9

I could not have missed it. "Patsy has the bezer's instinct. Those who keep on reminding us that cricket is a cradle game com think, be romancing,

WARWICK v. "MIDDLESEX

CAMBRIDGE XL, 1896.] : 2

The week when Oxford .Cam- bridge and Eton Harrow, are both staged at Lord's, for a part of the community, is the week of the year. School and university Friendships are renewed, cherished memories revived. We may not see the most technically perfect cricket, but it is the best cricket cricket fought to the last ditch.

people." ways of our party better than most

H

"Old

Smigla,

It would be idle to try to calcu- Evdokinoff, Preobrazhenski, Sokol Late how much our game owes to nikoff, and Badek-all men who, at the schools and universities, which one-time or another, played pro- who have always been an ornament

Mr. Lloyd George followed,

Damage suffered by reason of direct and particular interference with my property and business by this gang of Carberian me creants of Government officials, from top to bottom, especially that criminal super-Prussi swinehound, the former Home Secretary...

That dilatory, miserable stupid Foreign Offr and their foòls" of advisers on certain textile fabrics.

If no satisfactory reply is ob tained in due course, copy of this: and other letters will be sent to the Private Cabinet of the King, the Lord Chancellor, and to

SVOTY

member of Parliament throughout the country. Asked by the Attorney-General if

he thought such letters indicated a sense of loyalty to this country, the such a way that my exasperation * claiment said: “I' was treated in

was in a way justifled and excuse able,"

Warwick did well at Coventry topared with what it was: must, I have provided most of the amateurminent parts in the Bolshevik re-speaking all the better because he Hewart) announced his withdrawal::

take first innings points from Mid- dlesex, whom the home county to follow on after dismiss

forced for tre in the first innings. The best performance was that of Howell the Warwick fast bowler who took six Middlesex wickets for 61 runs.

11

Being 195 runs behind on the int innings Middleage were forced to follow on but Warwick failed to reap any benefit, play being stopped when two only wickets had fallen.

Score:--

"Warwick: 365.

Middlesex: 173 and 49 (for 2

wickets).

SOMERSET

"GLAMORGAN.

Hunt and Mercer Have the Upper Hand.

are

Lord Chief Justice WithdrawS, When the second day's hearing 'commenced 1.

The Lord Chief Justiós (Lord

to the game. Among old Oxonians gime. Of the signatories thirty had no notes. It is surprising how from the Court As soon as be The truth is, top-dressing of one finds R. A. K. Mitchell. A. J. Ave were members of the Bolshevik the meanest of orators is listened took his sent with the other mem- cricket pitches, so-far as Brat-class Webbe, Sir J. Key, fir party before 2006 and twenty-to when he speaks spontaneously, bers of the court, Bir W. Francis cricket is concerned, has been in O'Brien, L. C. H. Palsirot, C. E seven more before the first revolu- whereas the constant reference to a Taylor, E.C. and Sir D. Finnket practice for over thirty years Fry, B. J. T. Bosanquet the ton of 1918 Kemenett and Kres- mazacript puta an audience of its Barton Ey Load Hawart said të

The wickets have always been too Fosters, Lord Harris, and D. J. tiasi, embasadors respectively at attention. good, from the bowlers point of Knight. All of these at one time Rome and Berlin, added their

Words Like Coina. By the

When you, come to a great orator view Much ink has been spilt or another were sot only up to signatures by telegraph

3ike Mr. Lloyd George you numbered 180, Appeals service off the field as advisers, the groundsman's art. trying to get the M.C.C. to restrict Test standard, but have done great middle of June the signatories

The How would a Cambridge "side

manifesto

the forced to tolerate the constant put- have had little or no affect, and rightly so.

shape against the best Oxford side dominant Stalin elique of betray- ting on of spectacles and turning of all periods? My old university ing the Chinese Revolution and over of pages, but you do not like

mug

it has produced A. G. Steel, A. compromising with the

of British trade

Then rose lethargically from the

Conservative-benches Sir.} Lucas, the Studds, the Lytteltons, wampe

uzdenis. Above all, it inveighed back the Hon. F. S. Jackson, G. L

He always speaks of Alfred Mond Jessop, A. P. F. Chapman, H. against the personal regime Ashton, Ranji, 8. M. J. Woods, Stalia and demanded the appoint sa a somnambulist might speak. and Gregor McGregor. A very finement of a committee to investigate The words are not uttered with side could be made out of these the devices by which the Polit players, with heaps of batting, bure assured to itself a majority." Woods, Jackson, Steel, and C. 1. Studd as bowlers, and McGregor to keep wicket.

Groundsmen knew how to pre pare a pitch to last three days or a-week in the good old days just as well as they do now. We don't want to see the game played with a soft fonil; on the other hand, who wants to see every ground equip ped with a feld ambulance!

Fast bowlers are not happy on such pitches, for it is not pleasant to see s batsman writhing on the It was a bowler's wicket at Bath ground in agony after being struck

only although Glamorgan

a fast rising ball. As this hap by scored 176 in their Brst innings, pened four or five times during the Somerset collapsed against Mercer Notts game, besides other minor mishaps, you can quite understand and were all dismissed for 68...

Somerset were still 150 down why George Gunn danced on our drawn, the ping-pong table thankful that he when

from playing! score board then showing 104 runs had a cold which prevented him

and

stumps

for three wickets.

were

Hart was the outstanding bawler of the match, taking six Glamorgan wickets for 34 runs in the first

stances

Protective Measures.

circum

Ci

The school match, too, has sent us some of our greatest players Not all, of course, but when we think of Stadd, Lyttelton, Weibe, MacLaren, Jackson, Harris, I. D. realise the influence they have had" Walker, and R. A. H. Mitchell, we

on the game.

accused

In accordance with my usual practice I refrained from read- ing any of the papers in this case before

the case was actually opened, but I am now aware of some at least of the contents of this correspondence and of the "attacks which the claimant has thought fit to make upon certain public officers during a particu lar period, including myself sa- Attorney-General

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I make no comment on those. attacks, but now that I am aware of them I prefer to take no part deliberation: they fall from him.

in adjudicating up this claim. the fact that he is putting forward He himself seems unconscions of The D.G.F.U. Demand.

an argument.

The Lord Chief Justice then left As the manifesto was not met. His phrases are always well-the room and the chair was taken with immediate stern suppression framed and his expressions impres by Sir W. Francis Taylor.

Mr. Gschwind Warned, the Opposition was encouraged to sive and strong, all the more be- assert further its rights to exis cause they are delivered nonchalant

There was some lively crow tence and to freedom of action.

the Attorney The departure of Smigla on his It is as if he were throwing coin examination by

after coin on the ringing counter General, Sir Douglas Hogg for official banishment was used as pretext for a demonstration at the with the gesture of one to whom the Crown.

The Attorney-General: Have you station. More than 2,000 people money was indifferent

Last of all came a proposed new ever been prosecuted for libel listened to speeches in which Trotsky and Zinovieft extolled the clause from Mr. Alexander, the No..

On your oath --No. exile na a true son of October." Co-operator. He is a youthful- The demonstration enormonely in- looking man, with what is usually Mr. Gunity Hemacaber

an honest face." He want more party. called

creaead the excitement in the

opportunity.

and in the second innings he ceded innings and four for 37 in the Darston and Nigel Haig were in they play practically to sunset. The O.G.P.U. reported to Stalined to bring within the pains and you are on your oath here, and

only 19 runs for his four wicketa. Macaulay claimed five wickets for

34 runs in Northants' second innings.

Score:--

Northants: 161 and 100. Yorkshire: 87 and 200 (for-5

wickets).

SUSSEX SURREY.

the

second. Mercer's analysis was wickets for 25 runs.

3

Boors :-

Glamorgan: 170 and 145 (for

wickets declared). Somerset: 68 and 104 (for

wickets).

LANCASHIRE ». ESSEX,

Rain Prevents Play.

3

The keenness shown in this Some cricketers in such aual match is a lesson to some of are irrepressible. While the older players. From morn

!! at the their most deadly mood, Rich- But, alaal the old rag mond had been thinking out pro nich is now a thing of the past tective measures for himself.

Do top-hats cost too much! When we returned to the 'dress-

There could be no greater con- ing-room

the Notts to tea,

matches. The Varsities draw an googly" bowler awaited us with trust than the spectators at the two his patent bat. By tying the elderly crowd in which the Church handle of one bat to the bottom is largely represented, not so of the blade of another, and standartly dremed as in pre-war days, ing on stilts, he declared he was when the black coat and top hat

Durston and prepared to meet.

were the rule, but filled with the "all-comers," any time and any-

same enthusiasm. But Eton. where I'

Harrow as an American admitted to me last year, provides a sight that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world. A fine day, with thousands of charming boys and girls, in their best, and hospitality both privately and by the best clubs extended lavishly with both hands, in the world that is something in which one may still see the soul of England,

There were only 13 runs scared

The amazing part about the in the match between Lancashire and Essex at Liverpool and the game was that in spite of the dan- match does not count in the Cham-gers some good scores were made, and I doubt if Harry Lee has ever pionship.

made a better hundred than that can two wickets when rained all the nice things that were The champions scored 73 runs for of his second innings. He deserv-

stopped play.

A theory of Lee's on how best to play Harold Larwood struck me asworth Bobo consideration by batemen. It is that the bataman takes a block a few inches in front of the crease. There is, of course,

iaid to him:

ROAD ON ARCHES.

£4,000,000 LONDON SCHEME.

not

Have you not been convicted and bound over 1-Not in that casest

Pressed to answer, Mr. Gschwinds said it was & prosecution simply for writing libellous, scurrilous and blasphemous letters

that it could no longer guarantee penalties of the Bill those who you can be prosecuted for perjury rings, thereby if you say what is not true. Have public tranquillity unless it was formed price

He you

been prosecuted for invested with the right to arrest coercing the community." members of the Opposition at its made one of the best speeches he criminal libel Yes, I was prose

made-perhaps the best cuted, a At a meeting of the Central Con speeche of the day.. discretion. trol Committes beld to decide the fate of the recalcitranta Trotsky declared that the next act of the conflict would not take place in party meetings, but that the tactics

The Attorney-General: Why did of the Politburo were driving the

you tell the court you had pever, Opposition" to appeal to the

been prosecuted for libel and then labouring masses. The extreme

Negotiations are understood to say you were not convicted and Stalinites demanded a ban expell-

Tie at Oval on 1st Innings.

ing the leading members of the Op Lave reached a satisfactory stage bound ever These things happen position from the party, but the for the advancement of the ed long ago.

would not £4,000,000 scheme for the improve-Mr. Gschwind agreed that there Sussex had bad lack not to beat

Central Committee Surrey at the Oval and had they

passed the recommendation already agree to so drastic a measure, and ment of the Victoria Dockroad, E. we a prosecution for criminal

The Government has promised 75 libel. The first one was a proseon per cent of the cost, the remaining tion for writing libellous, ecurri played less for safety and sent

known.

According to the Viestnil's cor- 25 per cent. to be borne by the lous, and blasphemos, letters: in home team in for their last innings

respondent, bis informants are un- London County Council and the 1924, when he was convicted an earlier they would not, probably

animonsly of opinia thas the local authorities, and bound gret The second proseco have been held up by the last two

The road forms part of the main tion was in 1008 crisis will not be ended by resolu tions.

There munt, they say, bo tralle artery from the docks to the As he finished his evidence Mis wickets. However having tied on

There is no doubt the young either sterner measures of repres- City, and is therefore vitally im Gechwind said he ought not to have the first innings the visitors waite

Notts bowler has a beautiful se- sion.or The New Zealanders had the best little danger of stumping, tion. From the moment he begins of power, Promise and division portant for London's food supplies used the strong and violent ex-

The members of the till they had scored 348 for eight

The improved and widened road pressions he had employed. wickets before declaring. Surrey of their match against the West of If one could get a few inches his run, there is 20 pause until Opposition show no inclination to would begin from the east end are, of course, a tough proposition England but ráin put a stop to play nearer to the pitch of Larwood's the ball has left his band. With tuomit. They believe it to be pro the India Dock road, pass over the Foul Language."

Bir Douglas Hogg aid that at the Oval and it doem't do to The match, which was played at good-length ball, it would not be some fast bowlers there is a per- bable that the Bolshevik party will river Lea to the Barking-road, and

Exeter, was left drawn.

so high at the moment of playing

into two, and from that turn south-eastwards to Silvertown, letters Mr. Cachwind used ment they say,

(we will aban- along the east side of the London foul and vile language a Batting first the tourists com it. At the same time, if he should ceptible halt at the moment of

Aslow-motion picture of Lar dan discussion for a struggle with and North Eastern Hailway, responsible officials with whom piled 930 for six wickets and de-over-pitch, there is a chance ofching the crease clared. The English team replied driving him woods delivers would be extremely arms or mutual terror It would be carried for a con- came in contact.

He submitted that the court To get on top of his good-length interesting. Indeed, there might. The correspondent of the Dicumy siderable distance on arches, thus: delivery in difficult. But the few be far more interest displayed by in Leningrad says that about 2,000 obviating the many delays to traffic might think fit to impose certali inches forward that Ice suggests batsmen watching him on the persons were arrested in the night at present caused by swing bridges costs against Mr. Gschwind.

Bir W. Francis Taylon-annon might enable a batsman to do the screen than in playing him on the of June 14th to 15th1 Home 200 and level croesing

About 700 houses will have to be ed that the court reserved": pitch. On & sporty-wicket he of these „Aero, professors and other

“EcademicianB****

emoved to make-way-for-the road, I'ment. (Continued on next Column.)." is too terrible for wordal

play tricks...

ka.......... The only individual feat recorded was Bhepherd's 198, in the first innings.

Score

Sussex: 242 and 343 (for 8

wickets declared):

Surrey 249 and 194 (for eight

wickets).

(Continued on next Columin.)

NEW ZEALAND. 2. WEST OF ENOLAND

Bain Stops Interesting Game.

with $3 for nine

Beore:-

New Zealande-230- wickets declared).

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of