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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE, STANLEY,
THE Summer Tarm begins April Summer Students should
attend or that day. For prospectus, JOHN for Boarders and Day boys," apply AOODS OF SUTHERLAND, LATE or St. Stephen's Coilege, Stanley.
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IN
THE
VICTORIA, IN THE COLONY OF
Hoxe KOND, WARDER, DECEAS ED, INTISTATE.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Court has, by virtue of A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
Section 58 of the Probatos Ordinance 1897, made an Order limiting the time for creditors and others to send in their claims against the above estate to the 7TH MAY, 1938.
All Creditors and others are accord ingly barsby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or befare hat date.
Dated the 0th day of April, 1938.
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Administrators, The Hongkong & Shanghai,
Bank Building,
Bon Bong.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT of HONG KONG
PROBATË JURISDICTION. --
IN
THE
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIFTY FIRST
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 10,
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HONG KONG, APRIL 10, 1936,
NOT OURS TO GIVE AWAY
Annual Ordinary General Meeting of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 15th April, 1996, at 11.30 A... for the
Those who propose to disarm purpose of receiving the Report "of the General Managers, together with must also prepare to disown. “Just a Statement of Accounts for the year for that reason it was lcgical in Mr. Lansbury to raise the question ended 31st October, 1935,
The Register of Shares of the of sharing out the British Empire; Company will be closed from Saturf the Pacifist is not prepared to
NEW ELECTION AVERTED
Only Two Japanese For S.M.C.
Shanghai, April 9. Nominations of Shenghal Muni- ciple Council candidates closed at noon. Five British, two Americans and two Japanese entered and thus a fresh election is averted.
The British Ind American can- didates are the same as those who
were victorious on March 24, but Mr. Go, who headed the Japanese poll. yields his place to Mr. Uraba, who wis defeated..
Porter Calhoun
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The elected members now are Brig. Gen. Marnaughten. Messra. and Keswick, Mitchell,
and Arnold (British). Franklin (American). Yamamoto ind Uraba (Japanese).-, Reuter
FORMER FIASCO
Shanghal, April 9. The Committee of three-a Bri-
1936.
RICKSHAW MEN RETURN NEWS SUMMARY
TO THEIR WORK
Slight Rearrangement Of Hiring Terms
com-
The Diocesan Girls' School held their Annual School Sports yester- day.
Paze 10.
In the Inter-Unit "Hockey' final played yesterday, the A.K.9 Brigade defeated the Punjabis by the only goal scored.. Page 10
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The heavy blankes of 10g which prevailed in the harbour yesterday
nearly bad
repercussionsTM“ very when the ferries escaped" collision wit each other on several occasiona
Page 7.
One of the most extraordinary tales of masa stowing away aboard British steamer will be unfolded with the arrival in Hong Kong to- day of the China Navigation steam- er Kwei-yang from Bangkok.
Page 1.
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Paymaster-Commander Jolley, R.N., of HMS, Dorsetshire, was invested with the insignia, of Officer of the Most Excellent Order
day, the 11th day of April, to Friday fight under any provocation what-ton, an American and a Japanesetion yesterday issued the follow-there during the early hours of of the British Empire by His Ex-
the 17th day of April, 1938, both days inclusive, during which period до transfer of shares registered.
cun
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 4 April, 1996.
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or AUDREY GOODS MAURICE BOWES-SMITH, LATE OF 516, THE PEAK, IN THE MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY COLONY OF HOxo Koso, Ex- CHANGE BROKER, DECEASED.
THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND
NOTIO, by virtue of TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the provisions of Section 38 of Ordin ance No. 2 of 1897, made an order limiting the time for creditors and othors to send in their claims against the above oʻlate 5TH MAY,
1936.
to
All Creditors and others are accord ingly hereby required to send their claims to the undersigned on or before
that dute.
DEACONS,
:
Solicitors for the Executrix, 1, Das Vaux Rond Central,
Hong Kong.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONG KONG
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION
MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS
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No. 16 or 1936.
MATTER OF THE COLIN MACKENZIE AND COMPANY LIMITED (And Reduced)
and
IN THE MATTER OF THE COM PANIES ORDINANCE 1932 NOTICE is hereby given that a Petition for confirming the reduction of the paid up and issued capital of the above Company from 8100,000.00 to $75,000.00 was on the 20th day of March, 1936, presented to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong and is now pending. A list of the person admitted to have been Creditors of the above Company on the 3rd day of April, 1938, (the slate fixed by the
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE is hereby given that the
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTH ORDINARY MEET- ING of Shareholders in the Company will be held at the Office, of the Company, Queen's Building, Victoria, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, the 22nd April, 1936, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of the Directors, together with a Statemeat of Accounts, and re-ulecting Directors and Auditors.
the Municipal -appointed by soever. It follows that he cannot defend and may as well therefore counell to inquire into the recent disown his possessions before the election scandal, finds that res- process of dispossession begins. ponsibility for failure to make a That process it will take energy complete count of the votes must and courage to avoid; but we are
be shared by the two scrutineers. encouraged in the belief that these Mr. A. J. Welch and Mr. G. Bool- qualities are not dead in the British son, together with the Secretary of breast by the brief statement of the Council. Mr. J. R. Jones, and Mr. Thomas in the House of Com-the Deputy Treasurer of Revenue,
"His Majesty's Mr. V. H. Bourne, recently. Government." said the Secretary of State. "has not considered, and 15 not considering," the handing over of any of the British Colonies or territories held under mandate." We may conclude that as our
mons
Government does not propose to disown the British Empire it is preparing. If need be, to defend it. It is a grave but a worthy decision. Our Socialists, apart from Mr. Lansbury, can
recommends The Committee new rules for the conduct of elec- tions and the counting of votes, as well as the appointment of a Com- mittee to define the responsibilities and duties of senior omncials of the
Counci
It will be recalled that after the election, it was discovered that, by some unaccountable inadvertence, 323 ballot papers had remained in hardly be called the box and had not been counted. Pacifists, because they are ready-Reuter. to rush into war in the cause of peace. but they shrink from any idea of defending the British Em- pire, and no doubt for that reason they daily with two ideas, one to
EASTER HOLIDAYS"
There will be no issue of the
Shanghal, APT. 4, many instances they brought their The Chairman of the Rickshaw pullers with the missing cushions Owners Association Interviewed and seat boards, so that, when a the Rickshaw Board yesterday and rickshaw left the station assured them the owners would re-pound, it was ready for service.
While the lock-out stil! was part- sume normal operations this morn- ing. Licences for April will be ap- ly in force, special arrangements plied for on the 8th Inst. and the were made to feed the unemployed In their families. Board agreed to allow the P.M.A.A. pullers and
instances,
rickshaw the many contribution for April to be paid at
owners themselves provided food the end of April, instead of simult- aneously with the taking out of for their men. A system of s licences, on the written undertak-suing five-cent tickets redeemable at food shops was inaugurated at ing by the Chairman of the Owners Association that this would be the Pullers Mutual Aid Association centre in Markham Road. Three duly dona
The Pullers Mutual Aid Associa- Į hundred such tickets were issued
yesterday. "At 'n meeting of the Board of ing notice to its members:- Management held yesterday, it was decided that, beginning April If the majority of our members are still without rickshaw to pull, the Association would give asals tance to unemployed members at the rate of 15 cents (big money) each per day. This was approved by the trustees and all prepara- tions were made accordingly. But information has now been received that the owners will hire cut their rickshaws as usual, beginning from the morning of April. We there- fore urge you to resume your work usual and are glad that your livelihood is better assured than it could be by the proposed scheme,
eventuate." which now, of course, will not
ON THE SERVICE Nearly all the rickshaws hither- to withdrawn had been put back on the streets last night. At 5 o'clock, it was estimated that 7,000, or 70 per cent. of the vehicles Settlement, had operating in the hongs took the lead in releasing rickshaws to the pullers-
French In the
Concession, similar conditions obtained. The 300 rickshaws taken from the hongs to a vacant space off Rue Admiral Bayle were reclaimed by their owners, most of them during the morning.
Owners with hongs in Route Prentice commenced on Thursday, the second day of the lock-out, to pay their coolles 20 cents per day as food allowance during the per-
There are ap iod of suspension. proximately 1,000 men attached to these hongs.
cellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, K., C.M.G., C.B.E., at Government House at noon yesteż-
Fage 7. day,"
The death of a cylist which oc curred on March 13 when he was
knocked down by a lorry formed the subject of a charge before a court yesterday.
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Page &
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. F. A. Munn accompanied by The situation in the French Con- Mrs. Munn and Master David will cession returned to normal yester be leaving the Colony on the 18th
sumed business. The principal well-known K.C.C. cricketer and day about noon, when practically inst. by the s.s.. "Naldera" on trans- all the owners in the district refer to England. Mr. Munn is the Owners had been summoned by has beer. in the Colony for three the French Police to a conference years. the previous day, when they were to put their vehicles instructed lato circulation. For the relief of the pullers, the owners agreed to distribute 20 cents to each coolle. A meeting subsequently was held At 3 am. yesterday, a delegation called on the authorit- reached. les, reporting that the" owners had failed to agree to end the lock out, but, on representations by the police, the owners finally agreed to resume business. A notice to this effect was posted in front of the branch office of the Pullers Mut- ual Aid Association in Rue Admiral Bayle at 11.30 am. (N. C. D. N.)
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the hand back the mandated tez Dally Press to-morrow (Sstur- been restored to service. The small by the owners, but no decision was and will be greatly missed by both
Company will be CLOSED from the 16th April to the 22nd April, 1936, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
H. DA LUZ,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 8th April, 1936.
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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
tortes and the other to "inter- nationalise."
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BANK
Professor Laski day). Publication will be resumed
on Monday, On calls it. the British Empire. the former point, as our Political Correspondent stated some per- tinent considerations have been raised by Conservative Members. They describe these mandated ter- honourable trust. ritories as an and they point out that this is a conflict not merely as to possession but of ideals. In those great re- gions of tropical Africa which are administered as British Colonies
and customs of his own tribal THE Fifty-Sfth Ordinary General the native is allowed the liberties
Meeting of the Company will
system. He cultivates his native of the
be held at the Offices
FORGED
NOTES
Large Seizures In Canton
General Managers, Mezers. Jandine, land, sells his native produce and (From Our Special Correspondent) Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, governs himself or is governed by Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 22nd his chief in his own, village. He April, 1936, at Noon, for the purpose is not drilled: he is not exploited. of receiving the Beport of the Interference only comes when his Directors, pussing the Accounts, and customs darken into intolerable electing Directors and Auditors.
Tho Transfer Books of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 15th April to the 6th May inclusive.
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON&Co., LTD.,
General Managers.
Order in this matter dated the 27th day of March, 1936) may be inspected at the office of Mesars, Deacons the Hong Kong 2nd April, 1936. Solicitors to the Company at No. 1,
Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong at any time during usual business hours.
Any person who claims to have been on the last mentioned day and still to be a Creditor of the Company and, who is not entered in the said list and claims to be so entered must on or before the 17th day of April, 1938 send in his name and address and the par- ticulars of his cisim and the name and address of his Solicitor (if any) to the undersigned at No. 1, Des Voeux Road' Central aforesaid or in default thereof he will be precluded from objecting to the proposed reduction of capital.
Dated this 3rd day of April, 1938.
DEACONS,
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SOVIET-MONGOL PACT PROTEST
Rejection By Russia
Canton. April 9. Owing to the presence of coun- terfelt notes supposed to be those of Hong Kong banks, new paper money is accepted here with greas
Merchants examine ali new bank notes over and over be-
The owners whose rickshaws had enjoyed the protection of Sinza and Gordon Road Police Stations on Thursday night started to claim their vehicles early yesterday morning. Throughout the day they came, searched for their property in the tightly packed rows alid on proving ownership, were permitted to take the rickshaws away. In
ARMY BOXING
Open Team Inter- Unit Finals
cruelties. Would the Africans after crution. enjoying this easy rule be content
was The false notes purport to go back to the old system of fore accepting them. militarised servitude, which commonly called the rule of the those of the Hong Kong Govern.
the Chartered Bank of racks. kiboko? Or would they be deliver-ment.
to
to
The Final of the Open Team the Hong Inter-Unit Boxing in
Was Championship be Kong Area
Bar- held last night at Murray
The match was between
The con-
CHINESE ART TREASURES
Mr. and Mrs, F..S. W. Smith and son are also leaving on the s.s. "Naldera" for England for good. Mr. F. S. W. Smith is the K.C.C. cricketer and lawn bowls player
Mr. Smith sections of the Club. has been in the Colony for some fourteen years and has been con- nected with Messrs. Dodwell & Co.. Ltd.
A Mixed Doubles Tennis Tourna- ment will be held at the Civil Ser- vice Cricket Club on Easter Sunday commencing at 3 p.m.
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A Chinese woman, aged about '70 years, "who, accidentally fell into the harbour from Band Street. West Point, died in the Govern- ment Civil Hospital on Wednesday night.
The Burns. Philp Line m.v. "Neptuna" from Melbourne, Byd- ney, Salamaua, Rabani and Mani- la. left Sydney for this port on.
Returning Homeward the 8th instant and is due to arrive
By Ranpura
here on April 29, 1936.
Members of the K.C.C, are ad- vised that a Whist Drive has been arranged for Wednesday.. Apr 15 at 9.15 p.m. in the Main Hall
One case each of diphtheria, and cerebro-spinal fever were reported to the Health Authorities for the 24 hours ended on Wednesday,
London, April 9.
of Chinese art Ninety cases treasures left aboard the P. & 0. the liner Ranpura from Tilbury to- The "Empress of Russia" will ed over against their will? We Ind 3, Australia and China, and the 2nd Bn. the East Lancashire
the Hong Kong and Shanghai Regiment and the 2nd Bn
arrive in Hong Kong to-day morn-. considered what happened to the
day for China.
The treasures were sent from ing and sali for Manila at 5 p.m. Assyrians when they were handed | Banking Corporation. The, coun- Royal Welch Fusikers.
in the same day. over to the tender mercies of the terfeit.money looks very much like test was won by the East Lancs.
Burlington House to Tilbury Iraqi Mohammedans, Sir Henry real, as they are photographic re-by 24 points to 21,
One of the finest fights of the Ave heavily guarded lorries, Mr. the Royal Page Croft "recently put the de- productions, and the water mark
evening was that between Pte. Lambe, Secretary of licate question "Is it suggested resembles the genuine one.
Academy and Dr F T. Cheng ac- About $160,000 forged notes of Whitehouse and Fus. Ross. Ross that Palestine should be handed
the lorries to the over to Germany?" Or if not to 100 denomination purporting to in this fight took terrific punish-companied Germany then Turkey? The be those of the Hong Kong and ment, but each time he was floor Ranpura and formery relinquish
Corporationed he pluckily rose only to be sented responsibility. natural reply to such questions Shanghal Banking
Chinese experts carry a complete suggests a conflict of Ideals, of were unearthed by the gendarmes, to the canvas once
while the police discovered one-fight was given to Whitehouse in set of photographs of the exhibi- Moscow, Apr. 9.
methods of administration, of con-
tion and quantities of catalogues The Soviet reply to the Chinese sideration for the governed, which dollar "notes" bearing the name the second round, when the re-
for use it similar exhibition Fre the held in China, $100.000 ten-dollar protest regarding the Russo-Outer makes it impossible without in- of the Government of Hong Kong feree stopped the fight,
The shortest fight was defensive treaty has Justice and breach of trust to carry and Mongolia
bearing the name, of the Charter-Heavyweight contest where Bagby been communicated to the Chinese out 'such a transfer.
ed Bank of India, Australia and was knocked out in less than a charge d'affaires by M. Maxim Lit-
So with the other proposal to
China,
minute. vinot, the Commissar for Foreign place the British Empire under an International authority. The self- governing Dominions may be ruled
Affairs.
The Russian reply rejects the
notes
It is difficult to distinguish the spurious notes at one glance. The
Chinese protest. as unfounded, but i out at once since they control thef i forged notes are intended for cir-
Solicitors to the Company.
at the same time expresses the 1, Des Youx Road Central,
drep conviction that the, Govern. ,༔ Hong Kong. N.B.-The title of the Proceedings ment of the Chinese Republic wil appearing in the previous arrive at the conclusion that the Notice on 3rd April, 1930 was protocol does not contradict Brroneously stated to be, Peiping Agreement and is in the Miscellaneous Proceedings Interests of the Mongolian as well No. 18 of 1934,
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THE HONG KONG JOCKEY
CLUB.
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EXTRA
RACE MEETING will be held
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BOMBING PLANES FOR CHINA ON ORDER
own destinies and would reject any auch idea with a summary con-
more.
THE RESULTS Bantamweight,
The
HMS Scout will escort the liner Ranpura from Tilbury to the open sea, HMS. Veteran to Gib- raltar and Malta, HMS: Verity from Mata to Port Said, EMS. Fus. Fisher (Fusiliers) beat Pte. Dainty from Suez to Aden, and HMS. Dauntless to Colombo and culation here on account of their Bennett.
Featherweight.
Shanghal- wide use in Canton. Hong Kong
Fus. Owens (Fusiliers) beat Dmr. Reater. notes are used in various trans- Lempt. But the Crown Colonies. actions and
are welcome
more M. Quilter.
Whitehouse beat Fus although they are governed more
Pte. than legal tender. This is due to directly, have also acquired under the fluctuation of Chinese govern- Rass (Fusiliers), our rule the right to a say in the ment bank notes and their lack of
Lightweight. administration. Even in the most international exchange value. backward cases their feelings and their sentiments have to be con sidered And strange as it may seem to our Internationalists, these Colonial subjects are proud
FAMOUS PROFESSOR"
PASSES
Los Angeles, Apr. 8.
of the flag under which they are "Hong Kong Daily Press" Specia born and their status under the Crown. For these reasons 11 for high- no other such a transfer.. would be
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Thirty-one long-range, (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY speed bombers are, to VALLEY on SATURDAY, 11th structed
day.
at the
Stockholm, April 11. The famous Austrian physiolo- be con- a shameful transaction, and self-gist and Nobel Prize winner, Pro- Vultee Aircraft respecting Britons will rejoice that fessor Robert Barany, who aince a chair for Physiology their Government has chosen the 1917 held and MONDAY, 18th APRIL, 1986, Works for China's Air Force. commenting at 12.80 P.M. on each
The machines will be adapted more arduous but more honourable and Pathology at Upsala Univer- from the Vultec single-engined, alternative. As to the question ofsity, died at Upsala, aged 60. Dur- The First Boll will be rung at ow-winged transport monoplane raw materials the result of the ing the World War Barany served 12 NOON on each day,
at present used by several Ameri inter-departmental inquiry, which as military doctor in the Austro- was reported, suggests that there Hungarian Army, and was taken can airlines,
The Vultee bombers will have a is no ground for grievance since prisoner by the Russians in 1925, cruising speed of at least 205 both Crown Colonies and mandated but was again released as inva'id, miles per hour and a
of territories are ready to sell their In 1914 he received, for his resear produce to any nation which is ches in physiology, the Nobel Prize. 1.000 miles.
ready to bury It. Router
By Order,
8. A. SLEAP,
Actg. Secretary
Hong Kong, 6th April, 1986.
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range.
Transocean News Barvice.
Pte. Walsh beat. Fus. Kearny (Fusiliers).
L'Cpl. Powell (Fusillers) beat Pie. Tomilson,
Pte. Broome beat Fus, Jones! (Fusillers).
Welterweight,
DUTCH CREDIT FOR FRANCE
("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)
Amsterdam, April 9. Nogotiations for granting a credit of one million francs to the Pte, Neilson beat Fus Morgan Bank of France are now being con- (Fusiliers).
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JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR TO CHINA
Mr. Kawagoe To Be Appointed?
Tokyo, April 11. The "Yomiuri Shimbun" learns that before Mr. Arita proceeded to Shanghai he informed Mr. Arana's feelings respecting Mr. Shigemitsu, which ruled out that the latter was for China.
The paper adds that it has been informally decided to appoint Mr. Kawagoe, Consul General in Tient- sin, 18 Ambassador to China,
Mr. Shigemitsü, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, has handed in his resignation, for reasons, af ill-health.
Mr. Arita is reported to have
ducted here with representatives decided to appoint Mr. Kenshi Pte. Smith beat Fus. Thomas of a Dutch Bank Syndicate, ac-Horiuchi. Director of the Bureau of in financial American Affairs at the Foreign cording to rumours
Ofice, Vice-Minister of Foreign Fus. Davies (Fusiliers) beat Pte, etrcies here-
Affairs. The appointment will be (Fuslilers).
Transocean Nein Service.
brought up before, the Cabinet Fus... Thomas (Fusillers) beat
to-morrow for approval.
Scullion.
Pte. Lennon...
Middleweight. L/Col. Grey beat Fus. Davies (Fusiliers).
Cpl. Weaver (Fusiliers) ko. Pte. Bdsm Bage ko. Fus Thomas Howie in the second round. *** (Fusiliers) in the first round.
Light-Heavyweight. Dmr. Atkins beat Fus. Thyer (Fusiliers).
Heavyweight. Pte. Green Lo. Fus. Bagby (Fusiliers) in the first round,
Mr. Yoshida's appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St. Tames has been held up, owing to the non-receipt of Britain's agrée- ment, due to the usual formalities
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