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LONDON, September 1st,
10.40 p.m.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1903.
PICANTON: NOTES, S
(From Our Correspondent).
CANTON, 1st September. THE 8.8. "TAK RING.” - The damage to the Joint River Steamboat Co's stemmer Tak Hing, Capt. Webster, which fost ber propeller and shaft and had to be benched on the salt flats as r ported by wire in your columus last week has now been re- paired, and the vessel commenced her usual run from this port to Wuchow at eight o'clock this morning. As already stated in your journal she has been in the hands of the long
ABACA: THE PHILIPPINE
·STAPLE INDUSTRY,
(Specially written for the " Hongkong Telegraph.")
IV.
It is evident that decorticating by machinery, with its enormuus saving of hande, must be of the greatest advantage in a sparsely populated country, like Borneo, where the labour has to be imported at considerable expense of the greatest obstacles to the prosperity of the tobacco estates has always been the high death rate among the coolies, of whom a large tobacco
ng more than a thousand men in pay. A hemp plantation will by no means run into such figures, and besides the coolies would be spread over a greater surface, making the sani tation much easier..
the too exuberant growth of young shoots, re- building of houses and roads, and a staff of. coolies alone is required to put the estate at once again in a working order. And this will scarcely, if at all, cost more than it would have cost at the closing of the estate. This is one chances high above that of the tobacco; the feature of abaca planting,, which raises its
while tea and coffes degenerate and are choked latter plant dies out in the year it is planted,
by herbs and wild growth of all kinds in a capital invested, after operations have been short time, causing an almost entire lass of the
stopped.
SANDAKAN NOTES;
To-day's Advertisements.
CITY HALL,
THIS EVENING.
THE MURDER OF MR, WARDER,
The murderer of Mr Warder is still at large. It now appears the murderer was a man whose
instructions, after refusal to pay poll tax, and house had been burnt down, by Mr. Warder's this has, we und.rstand, caused Mr Consut (WEDNESDAY), 3nd SEPTEMBER. Hewitt to interest himself in the matter, with a view to finding out by whose instructions such a course was taken by the deceased officer
GRAND BENEFIT
TENDERED TO
The more one hears of the matter the greater ALVA THE GREAT.
'It is reported in newspaper circles kong and Whampoa Dock Company. As far estate employs many hundreds; some bav- Suanlamba estate, a Sumatra tobacco planter, seems to have been a very self-sacrificing son
hiero that American journalists intend starting a daily paper in Hongkon at un carly date.
[From our inquiries in the Colony we have
not been able to ascertain whether such a new
venture is in contemplation for Hongkong With the addition of a morning. dally which has been spoken of for some time and the projected llongkong edition of the Manila
as saloon accommodation is concerned, there
is not a boat on the West River to touch her, and being the only twin screw steamer on this fuss she passes anything on the line and her only trip the week before inst was a record.
AN EXECUTION,
The amount secured by a robber of package of treasure was $100,000 and not $1,.on, as stated by your contemporaries. The package cnsisted of 51,000 in silver and the remainder
If, therefore, a part of the crop would pass through the machinery, the number of coolies, could be greatly reduced even if the contention of the manufacturers, that a 14-H.P. plant (costing about £goa fo.b.Liverpool) requiring cleaned fibre, bated for expert had to be considerably discounted. The quantity named after our previous estimate, would represent a single man's work for sixteen months.
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the regret, for-in addition to being a good The man whore report was so fateful for officer to the Government-the late Mr. Warder
ramie for some time, put all consideration of who' had privately studied the development of io a widowed mother at Home. this certainly valuable plant off and started, in
PROVINCE CLARKE his land of adoption, a propaganda for his new territory, and we hear a punitive expedition is Rumours of trouble reich here from the new
ideal, abacă. Like many another prophest, his tieing organised, though the whole matter is word counted for little in his own country, being kept very quiet. He studied carefully everything contained
in the Philippines and wrote a pamphlet on the about abacă in a dozen books relating to travels subject of his hobby in three languages-Dutch, not printed), and at last obtained from the pro- pricior of the Sanlamba plantation the lease of this concern. He is Yours truly,
Hongkong, 2nd September, 1903.
MINERALS.
coal expert has gone back to Tawao, to makė There is very little news about this. "The further investigations.
As to the Mineral
Sunday Sun, a fifth daily for the Colony will in notes. The thief is sentenced to be behend-15 coolies, would produce about 3.000 lbs. of German and English, (only the latter is as yet | Syndicate several discoveries of manganese
have a struggle, before it in order in he made a commercial success.-Ed., .K. 7)··
Opium Sales.
CONTINUED BIG RISH.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) -
ed and on representations from the bankers the Nam Hoi magistrale has contented to have the execution as near the scene of the robbery as possible. It will take place on the Kinnglung Wharf, in all probability to-day.
RAIN-STORMS.
During the last two days Cânion has been visited by very, severe squids which, on Sun day, elmost alounted to a typhoon. Several moois of boutes were shattered and all the CALOUTTA, 2nd • eptember, 1908.
customary matshed windshools, which most The ninth auction sale of opium shops have in the city for ventilation, were took place to-day, when Patna re swept away. Last evening at four o'cluck a alized Rs. 1,476 and Benares Rsquall suddenly sprang up sind capsized about a dozen sampras in the Back Reach and 1,446' per chest, showing a rise of beached a junk just below Maran forts. The KR. 110 and Rs. 6, respectively, rain, which did not come till after 6 o'clock ths morning, has established a record, 654 upon the last sale. The usual qua inches falling in 14 hours. The total rainfall tity of 2,000 chests of each quality for the month is 143 inches.
was sol!.
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The
"America" Cup.
THIRD RACE AGAIN POSTPONED.
Messrs. Shewan, Tomnes & Co. kindly send us the following copy of a telegram received by them this morning, and which was despatched from New York last night-
"Light breeze, Postponed for no wind. Will be sailed to-morrow (Wednesday)."
(Reuter's.)
The Balkan Trouble.
LONDON, 31st August. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to blow up the West-bound Orient Express, South of Kuleliburgas, but the engine only was derailed.
The Turks have re-captured Neveska, ing two hundred Bulgarians.
THE BARRIERS.
The artificial obstructions to navigation in the Canton River, which according to the Bri- tish Commercial Treaty have to be removed by the 5th Septenter, 1904, are to be done away with at an early date. The work of removing them will commence very shortly.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN
CHINA.
That. machinery, effective in any way, will be constructed in the near future, does not admit of any doubt. Too great interests are at stake and the antediluvian, way of decorticating may he soon enough a thing of the past. Many years will elapse before over production sets in reducing the high prices now paid and the pro- fit of the hemp industry, for a considerable time, will be unusually high. A stuff, which requires at least two to three years for growing, cannot be produced in any quantity at once and the first in the market will benent most.
The writer once read a London Broker's report about abacá, contending that even a quantity of 5,09 tous thrown into the market would not
to a perceptible extent reduce the then current price of abará."
The Germans in their new possession, the Carolines, bought apparently at an exorbitant price from poor beaten Spain, may still make wood the money paid by further developing their plantations.
F. M. J. S.
" ALHAMBRA" ZOBACCO CO., LD.
The following is the general agents' report July, 1902, to 30th June, 1903- to the Consulting Committee on the period 1st
Manila, 30th July, 1953.
To the Consulting Committee.. Gentlemen,-la conformity with rule 53 of articles of association, we have the honour to and you, under separate cover, inventory, dance sheet, profit and loss account per 30th June, 1903.
The last mentioned document shows a loss of $7.570.77 (including the $391.12 1 ss carried over from last yearly balancé per 31st Decem- ber, 1902) which we recommend to apply as follows:
$7,000 to be written off the Reserve fund, and $570.77 to be carried forward.
We request you to Eave the accounts ex-
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orca e talked about and are expected to turn nat trumps.
UP-TO-DATE
VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT.
POPULAR PRICES,...
Plan at Robinson's,
$2 and $1.
Doors open &15. Overture at 9 P.M. Sharp. Hongkang, and September, 1903. [tos80
POSTPUNEMENT.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
*HE Undersigned have received instructi to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), the 3rd September,
SULUS. The Sulu Kative Chief here has been ex-
T exceeding his powers very considerably, and is about to be deported, along with several of his followers, in default of payment of heavy fines imposed by the Goverment. Du Tim- bang, the chief n question, has never had the full confidence of the people here, and his ba. aishment will not be regretted.
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT,
Mr. F. J. Moysey, Secretary to the Governor, has won the autumn handicap, beating Mr. Frank Beeston in the final round by 25, in the game of 300, the time being 1 hour and 9 minutes.
The Governor was beaten, from scratch, in the semi-final by Mr. Moysey, who was conceded 75 points, and who, in turn, allowed Mr. Beeston 5 points in the handicap.
SLIPWAYS.
The Slipway of the China-Bornen Co., Ltd., "ppears to be making good progress, but the one started by the North Borneo Trading Co. seems to be standing still temporarily. It is
On the 26th of last month the Oceana left for mined and audited, in accordance with article very doubtful if two slipways would pay here,
the Carolines with one or two botanists on board, who will study in those islands several tropical products, which have been introduced on a small scale. One of the latter is a tibie plant-almost certainly abaca.
There is a German proverb, that the most dense peasants grow the heaviest potatoes ("Die duemmsten Bauern haben die dicksten Kar- toffel") and, it is not likely, that the fatuit Co. will forget to replace the doctor philosophiæ, as soon as his work of investigation is finished, with the man, who can grow potatoes and hemp, the man of theory with the practical planter. Needless to say, that for the latter an unusual degree of supidity, as the proverb seems to imply, is not strictly required.
Unfo unately the proprietor of Suanlamba, Mr. P. D., of Glasgow, did not engage the services of a practical man in due time. After procuring, at great cost, several thousand young plants from the Philippines, the estate was opened out with a success which would have startled the experts from this country.
54 after which they will be ready for the inspection of the shareholders in anticipation of the general meeting.
The cigar department has left a loss of
strikes that took place. $3,554.26, which is chiefly due to the different
of cigarettes, their demand having considerably A fair profit has been obtained on the sale
increased.
As the factory awns no stock of leaf tobacco
indispensable to raise the capital, the more so suitable for cigarettes, it becomes absolutely
as we cannot afford to continue, advancing funds to the Company.
Seen and con-
form:
Long before the establishment of commer- cial intercourse with foreign countries when China was secluded from the rest of the world, the English language, now so popular and valuable, was totally unknown to the immense mass of Chinese people. From time to time there were some Roman Catholic priests who found their way to Pekin, and these have been greatly instrumental in the translation of inany books on science, in the early stage of China's western civilization. But they put on Chinese clothes and spoke the Chinese language. At the time of Dr. Morrison, the English mis- sionary, the English language was still little known, and the number of people who spoke it as well as the area where it was spoken, kill-deserve little attention. The only place open to foreign trade then was Claton. The inter- preters and other English-speaking Chinese were of a type different from those of the pré- In two years, ie, in a year less time than the sent day. They made themselves understood Filipinos require for that work, perfecily deve by gestures rather than by anything else, and leped clusters of stems more than four yards long yes, it ie said, an interpreter was so valuable had been obtained and this result was greatly regarding his services thai, often he succeeded
to the credit of the superintendent, a well in making a large fortune for 'himself. Even known scientific man of bigh standing. The pure and simple English was not used-there butanist's part of the business being finished, a was no grammar, no Anglo-Chinese dic-practical estate manager ought to have been
So, it is evident, procured at any cost, to work out a good system Cash ionary of school.
of roads and the necessary drains, and to build Erglish-speaking became a sort of guessing work. Undoubtedly, mistakes were liable to
permanent houses and sheds. The man of be made on both sides, the speaker and the science perhaps knew too little of these require hearer, when the thoughts of each were expres-menis. Besides, being overstrained at least sed and understood in a way so peculiar and entirely absorbed by his official work-he had no time to occupy himself especially with the superintendence of the estate.
The United States Squadron in
the Mediterranean. The orders to the American squadron to proceed to Beirut have not been changed.
LATER.
The Governorship of Hongkong: · Sir Henry Blake, the present Governor of Hongkong, has been appointed Governor of Ceylon.
The Third Race for the "America" Cup. The third race for the "America" Cup is again inconclusive. The course was fifteen miles to windward and back, there was a heavy sea and a wind of six knots. The Reliance started six minutes ahead after Cleverly depriving the Shamrock of the wind ward position, and steadily increased her lead after 24 hours, to two miles, when the wind dropped.
The German Press and Amerion.
The German Press is dissatisfied with American intervention in the Near East as
crude, and these mistakes, of course, were avoidable.
When Hongkong was ceded to the British Government in exchange for Canton, some Anglo Chinese schools were set up. At first these schools had considerable difficulty in get ting the desired students, for, in those days, English and all other foreign languages as well were despised by the Chinese. Then they scorned the idea of studying a foreign language Gradually but steadily, as more ports were opened, more foreigners came and, as was natural, fesh opportunities presented them. selves to the English speaking Chinese. As tonishing as it was, enterprising Chinese found it quite worth their while to study English, as the pay at their command was such a tempting one. It was mainly through the gigantic nese, especially of the poorer class, were taught retaining supreme direction of the Ministry the language, and it is remarkable to see how
soon they picked it up.
being likely to upset the political calculations of Germany, Austria and Russia.
Russia.
The latter was worked by managers recruited from the casual unemployed, who, as a rule, had as little practical kowledge of esta'c
naging working men. 'I bey seem never to have the case, not of the number of coolies necessary come to an appreciation of the requirements of for the pulling of the fibre. Special funds for the latter were never demanded from the proprietor; invalids dismissed from the hospital, or jail.
work as the doctor and far less idea of ma-
brds had a few weeks of leisure on the estate,
enjoying a regular-daily pay for their esteemed presence, and a happy "dus vivendi without are or trouble set in which bought the estate no further progress, but not effectually dealt with the funds sent from Europe. Tee original wooden buildings in the course of a few years shifted their residence to Sandakan, 26 miles by water from the estate. This happy Arcadian
there is certainly ample scope for one,"for he possession of a fair sized slipway will certainly bring work over here from the Southern Philippines, in addition to which there will always be a fair amount of local work to be done. Reyond doub! Sandakan compares very favourably with Philippine ports in the matter of the cost of repairing and building of small craft, and we look to see a great extension of this class of work when a slipway is an accomplished fact bere.
STEAMERS.
The Nam Yong brought up about 1,000 packages for this port on her last trip, and it is reported on very good authority that her owners intend placing a second boat on the florato run very shortly-Singapore Free Press.
ANOTHER CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
We are, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully,
BAER SENIOR & Co's Successors,
General Agents.
("Warner, BarNES & CO., LTD.
KUENZLE & STREIFF. (SLOAN & MITCHELL.
BALANCE SHEET PER 30TH JUNE, 1903. Liabilities.
....$150,00 "A victory over consumption as billiant 57,oco.co and beneficent as Jenner achieved over small. 127,095 pox is foreshadowed in the results just pub.
80,708.00
fished of the labours of Professor Edouardo 9,000.10 13.551.69 Maragliano, the distinguished Italian physi cian," says a bulletin of the Chicago Health $427,260.59 Department.
Capital ............... w.......................... Reserve fund
Loans against tobacco.......... Lanco Español-Filipino Baer Senior & Co...... Sundry creditors
'Assets.
in hand............$ 1,276.26 At banker's ***
333 21
Stocks in hand:
'These results form the subject of the Pró- fessor's address, entitled The Struggle of the Body against Tuberculosis and its Immunisa ~$ 1,659 47 | tion,' presented at the fourteenth International Medical Congress, held at Madrid last April, but just made public.
Tobacco leaf'. ****.....$303.955.24 Cigars, cigarettes and
cut tobacco.......... 18,245.23 Cigar boxes, labels,
33,894.91
-paper, etc. .....................
Machinery......... Furniture and installation ...... Various utensils
Premises on Calle Azcarraga Sundry debtors......... Profit and Loss Account.
356,695.40 21,334.50
"Briefly stated in non-technical language, Professor Maragliano claims to have produced, after more than thirty years of study and ex- periment, both in the laboratory and 'he clinic, 2,005 77 a serum which, introduced beneath the skin 1,912,00 of the arm as the vaccine lymph is in vaccina. 27,689.79 tion produces a small circumscribed tubercu
8441.89 losis sore, attended with slight fever for two 757077
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or three days, after which the system of the $4:7,160.59 subject is immune to tuberculosis, ar consump tion, as the properly vaccinated individual is to small-pox.
"The Professor said: These results are the fruit of the labours of not only one person, but of a school. They are, in fact, experimen tal and clinical researches publicly carried on either in my medical clinic or in the inst.tute for the study of infectious diseases which 1 founded and where the band of eager workers find at their disposal all the necessary material
experiments."
E. & O. E. Manila, 30th June, 1907. BAER SENIOR & Co,successors, General Agents. Examined and found correct ace rding to the company's books
JHN A. MACKAY.
TROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT PER 30TH JUNE, 19 3- Lsses.
M. de Witte has been appointed President efforts of the missionary body that many Chi-decayed through neglect and the managers balance of 31st December, 1902,...$ 391.12 for their research work, observations and
of the Committee of Ministers of Russia,
of Finance.
THE FORMOSA SUGAR CROP.
TOTAL PAILURE FEARED.
Year after year the English language grows apace in China, considering the immense pumber of schools which have been built and the tremendous number of students engaged in its study. In Queen's College, Hongkong, álone it is believed that there is a yearly atten The sugar crop in Formosa this year appears dance of 600 Chinese students. What about to have failed. From the and January last, when the exportation of new sugar to Japan St. John's College, Anglo-Chinese College, was opened by the Taichi Mart, to the 22nd Hun-Yang College, etc, of Shangbai? What July, when the Kelung Maru, the last boat about the Pekin University, the Tientsin with sugar, left, thirty-three steamers loaded University, and the Shansi University in the sugar at Anping and thirty-two at Takow. The North? Besides those already mentioned, sugar shipped at Takow amounted to 1,142,240 there are a good many other institutions where kin, while that sent from Anping represent the English language is taught and spoken, ed 15,227,180, kin-making a grand total of and then, lust of all think of the private schools 34,369,420 kin. When the amount shipped to conducted by foreigners and Chine:e in Hongkong, Amoy, and other Chinese porta- various ports. Many Chinese are now under 'the impression that it is not enough to learn 257,30pkin--is added, the total shipmentamounts to 34,621,720 kin. Taking the value of sugar at the language, that something more essential
still has to be done besides' the mere acquisi Ys per picul, the total will thus realise about tion of the language, that a profession should Y1,731,000. The quantity of sugar shipped be taken up in connect on with the study of this year was about one-half of the quantity the language. Others think that the language usually, shipped in one season. The value, has lost its value on account of the fact that so however, was about 60 or 40 per cent of a many people are able to acquire it and that their betters give their sons a sound education ordinary year, which was due to the higher In German, Rusnar or French --Shanghai price ruling+Kali Chronide,
Mercury
life came to a sudden close. The proprietor, who had long expected a good retain from the laid out capital and rather unwillingly allowed the continunus drain on his perse, sent out a real planter to report abot his properly and, if p ssible, to put it on a reasonable footing. The report was not very enc usaging, but the man immediately saw the extraordinary possi bilities of the case and demanded £2.500 for coolies, roads and drains, new houses, extension work and the upkeep of all this for about years, after which time be pretended to be able to make the concern pay a very bandsome return The irate proprietor read the report of this new min and soon saw him-elsewhere. The estate was closed and ever since the waving leaves of a solitary banana bosh to the rear of Sandakan bay are reflected by the dark, over-shadowed waters of a decelted river," Years of work and many thousands of capital have been spent
to the present without result, and one of the most justified expectations of B. N. Borneo as colony has been frustrated or, at least, delayed for many years, and are stanje
And yet the capital employed in this planta tion is not completely lost." A thorough clear- ing, removing of the over-ripe stems as well as
6,634-73
Balance carried over from yearly Interest...... Machinery, 20 % pa. Off
54.762.26 6/m-10 % 52,476.33
1,905 88.13/m-20 %
381.18
2,8,7.41 Furniture and installation: 331p a. off
$ 3.067.51 6/m—164 % $ 511
·147,90 12/m-33% 4930 Various utensils: amount written off... Sundry debtors ...................................................
Profisi.
Tobacco leaf. Cigars, cigarettes and cut tobacco... Ba'ance
500.55
226.60
COMMERCIAL.
TO-D V'S EXCHANGE.
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On Londos, Teleg·aphic Transier ...... /108- Bank Bills, on demand 110 11/6 Credits, 4 months' sightd 15 600 00
D'ments. 4 months' sight ... fik
M.19 As BERLIN, (demand). $11,270.41 ON. PARIS, Bank Bills, on demand..... 370
Credits, 4 months' sight
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7 41
45
... 141 1411
...... Bom.
911 $1070 ..56 50
ON NEW YORK, Bank Bille, on demand...45 ..$...13.66
Credits, 30 days' sight 3,685.98 ON BOMBAY, Telegraphic Transfer. 7 570.77
On demand..... On Shanghai, Telegraphic Transfer......72) $11,370.41
Private to days' sight ON YOKOHAMA, T.T....... Sovereigns, Bank's Tuying Rate... Gold Leaf 100 touch, per tel .... Mat Silver....
E & O. F Manila, 30th June, 1903. BAER SENIOR & Co.'s Successors, General Agents Examined and found correct according to the company's books.
JOHN A. 'MACKAY,
We hereby state that Mr. John Mackay was appointed by us at Anditor for the company as being in our opinion a fit and proper person to carry out said audit w
KUBNELE & STREIFF, ME WARNER, BARNES & Co., LTD. SLOAN & MITCHELL
OPIUM QUOTATIONS. To- lay's quotations are as follows :-
MALWA NEW.......
LAST YEAR OLDEST
PATHA NEW
OLDLY BENARES NEW ........................... PERSIAH (PAPER)uuuuuk
Per chest.
No Sales
940/970-
3,000/1,040 1.075 N No Sales
No Sales
-760,Bag
at to AM
at H.M. N.Vaal-Yard, SUNDRY NAVAL, OBSOLETE AND CONDEMNED STORES,
Comprising BOATS ENGINES, BOILERS, OLD BRASS, COPPER, IRON, PAPER STUFF; CANVAS, FURNITURE, IMPLEMENTS,
&c,
SC
&c. TERMSAS customary.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1993. [10510 DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED..
FOR SWATOW.
THE Company's Steamship
"HAIMUN," Captain Gibson, will be despatched for the at 10 AM. above Port, TO-MORROW, the 3rd instant,
For Freight ar l'assage apply to
DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & CO- General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd September, 1903 [10748
AMERICAN ASIATIC STEAMSHIP CO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK, STRAITS AND MANILA. HE Steamship
T
"NORDKYN," Captain A. Beer, having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godows Company, Limited, at Kowloan, and stored of Conaiguven' risk and expense,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- ing undelivered after the 8th instant will be subject to rent,
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 8th instant, at 2.30 PM,
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co, General Agents. Hongkong, and September, 1903. (10750
WANTED AT ONCE..
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Apply, stating terms, &c, to-
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