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TELEGRAMS.

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International Disarmament.

London, 27th May, In a debate in the House of Lords on International disarmament, Lord Ripon drow a distinction between a reduction in expenditure and disarmament. He said that, while the Government should do its utmost to reduce expenditure, it was their duty to provide for the ample security of the Empire.

Disarmament was impossible without a fair general understanding between the Powers.

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Later.

The meeting of the Dunia on Saturday night was a momentous one.

After passionate speeches of protest, the Democratic leaders of the Dums, with seven dissentients, passed a resolution demanding the instant resignation of the Ministry, and its replacement by a Cabinet having the con fidence of the House,

[N. C. D. News] The Anglo-Russian Understanding

Peking, a3rd May, The Chinese Ministers at Washington and St. Petersburg have reported the conclusion of an Anglo-Russian understanding in regard to their interests in Central Asia. The Chinese Government consequently apprehends the con- clusion at a later date of an agreement with the object of an exchange of Anglo-Russian interests in Tiber, Mongolia, and the New Dominion.

The Tour of the Siamese Prince.

Tokia, 23rd May, Prince Nakeruchaisi of Siam has left Seoul for Manchuria.

The New Ambassadors at Tokio. Tokio, 23rd May. Baron Mamm (German Ambassador) is to be entertained by Their Majesties at tiffin on Thursday.

Mr. Luke Wright (American Ambassador) is to present his credentials to-morrow,

The Japanese Training Squadron.

Tokio, 23rd May. Sepalor Dawson of Melbourne, a former Minister of Defence, says that the Japanese training ships have come in the character of spies and that japan is planning presently to seixe Australi..

The Opening of Manchuria.

Tokio, 34th May, I learn on the best authority that at Tuesday's Council the Elder Statesmen and Ministers were unanimously in favour of opening Man- charla to general trade at the earliest possible moment. The military adutinisation uffices will be abolished shortly. Japan does not intend to avail herself of any preferences' or

privileges either in commercial or industrial nffairs, and it is recogaised there is aniple mom for peaceful co-operation between Japan and other civilised Powers, in this fieki,

An Army Detail.

Tokio, 24th May,

A Lecree, enables foli tienerals to be ap: pointed to the command of Japanese Army Divisions."

THE GERMAN SEAMAN'S CASE.

APPLICATION FOR RE-HEARING WITHDRAWN.

Mr. C. F. Dixon's adjourned application for a re-hearing of the case in which Herman. Gotsche, second officer on .s. Lyetmoon, was .convicted recently by Mr. F. A. Hazeland and sentenced to one month's hard fabnur, without the option of a fine, for assaulting a policeman in Ship Street, came on again at the 'olice Court this morning.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY

SANITARY BOARD.

CONDITION OF HONGKONG STRERTS.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanit- ary Board was held this afternoon, the follow. ing being the business transacted:

PAINT FOR, THE CENTRAL MARKET... Dr. W. Pearse, Medical Officer of Health, subunited a minute in which he said he wanted to draw the attention of the Board to the ex- tremely unsatisfactory way in which the recent painting of the Central Market has been car ried out." in the buíchers' shops the paint is to sticky, although now three weeks old, that canvas has had to be hung over it to prevent the paint being pealed off by the carcases hung against it. Such canvas was undesirable and he had had to order it removed. In the first section almost all the paint put on the wond. work has disappeared, and what remains can, be, pected off with the fingers. The Central Market should look clean, and,be clean, bui the officers of the Board cannot take the re- ponsibility of this unless the repairs and reavations aro ilque in 'a workmankke man

ner.

Mr. Shelton Hooper minuted: „Į, presume all such work has to be pissed by the D... be fore payment is made for same?

Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett minuted: The

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hæcassarily endorse the opinions expressed by Concordents Ies this palumu.j

QUEENSLAND TO THE EAST.

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To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph," SIR,-claim to have quite as good a know..

ledge of Australia and the trend of public opi. sion as Mr. Jones, Commissioner for Queens. land, and consider much of what be mates should be taken cum grano salts, and on the other hand he is quite wrong in some of his facts. In thy opinion it is not the firm, fixed and unalterable decision of the electors of Australia to continue the present policy of non-admittance of the coolie. This is purely experimental legislation, which, your readers must be told, has not yet been put to the tes as far as Northern Queensland is concerned. Sugar planters in the far north have until 1st January, 1907, to man their plantations with white labour.

opinion the experiment is doomed to ultimate Knowing Queensland as I do so well, in my failure, I go further and say Australia can never fully develop her rich northern territory without a well-devised scheme of coalie labour, predict that the Federal elections in Decem ber next, will result in a considerable modifi- cation of the white Australia policy-and in

market being a Government building. I presupport of this I notice in my newspaper files sume the work of painting it was arranged for for April, that the Hon. G. II. Reid in his ma by some Government official, supported by the nifesto to the electors proposes to introduce (c) carrying out of the work was made it D.P.W. If a complaint as to the satisfactory

hold have been addressed to the Govern. ment Department in question in the first in

sance.

Mr. Lau Chu Pak-minuted: Why not serve notice at once? in a private, case this course would have been followed without referring to the Board.

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The Hon, the Director of Public Works; I was surely the duty of the Medical Officer of Health to report a matter like this to me. would be lime enough in repost to the Board when he failed to have the matter remedied in the ordinary way.

STREETS IN CENTRAL DISTRICT, · Correspondence was laid upon the table re- lative to the streets running Nord and South in the Ceutral part of the City."-

Mr. Shelton Hooper minuted: Mr. Looker's report bears out my original statement as to the condition of the streets in general running North and South. I never limited the streets to those between Queen's Road and Des Voeux

Rend Central. The minutes of the Sanitary

Board meeting were corrected accordingly be- fore their confirmation. The majority of the 24 streets personally inspected by His Ex- cellency the Governor are on the South side of Queen's Road Central, and mostly private ones and not those referred to, I do not think that centre channel of a half-round, glazed, ealthernware pipe would do as well as the present side channels. I believe some years ago side channels were substituted for centre

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ones.

The Hon. the Principal Medical Officer of Health minuted: in connection. with the con- firmation of the minutes of the meeting of the Sanitary Board held on 3rd insi. Mr. Shelton Hooper stated that his intention at that meet- jag had been to call the attention of the Government to all the streets running North and South in the central part of the city and not those only between Queen's Road and Des Voux Road.

The mirule of the 5th insi. nerds amplification, therefore, so as to include Queen's Road. those streets ascending the hillside from

His Excellency the Governor submitted a minute as follows: i went over the first 24 of the streets given in Mr. Lonker's list yesterday afternoon with the Director of Public Works and have added a few notes to the list. None of the streets that I saw were really bad or could be said to infringe the car ditions as to paving and draining laid down in paragraph 3 of the G, of I. resolutions. Ask the Director of Public Works to subunit à statement of the repars that have been carried out this year in the streets mentioned in the list, and a pro- gramane of the work sull to be carried out, with the available balance on the vote for "Main- tenance of Roads and Bridges in city ($50,000),

some radical alterations in this law.

Mr. Jones lo tell your readers the name of any Before passing from this point 1 would like country within the tropical zone which has had its resources fully developed by while labour only? And also what is there about an Aus tralian that he is likely to succeed in doing what white men of other nations have failed to do?

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Mr. Jones omits to tell your readers that, when giving evidence before the Tariff Com- mission, he stated that women in the East "worked like beasts of the field." I have been some months in the East without seeing this state of things.

have seen nothing about these privileges to Chinese in the newspapers; but, il granted, I consider they are quite in accord with the views of a majority of the electors of the Com- monwealth.

Mr. Jones is in the land of dreams when he refers to the $1,000 poll-tax in Australia. There is no such law in force there and I doubt if there ever will be.

Having had a look round the East I am in favour of a white Australia policy subject to material modifications of the law as it stands

at present. The most notable alteration

think will have to be made is to develop all the territory north of Bundaberg by a well regulated scheme of coolic labour.-Yours truly

May 29th, 19:6.

ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN.

THE SHANGHAI CHASS

CHAMPIONSHIP.

VICTORY OF MR. SOUZA,

Hongkong, has won the distinction of becom. Mr. P. C. Souza, formerly chess champion of ing first champion of Shanghai also. The final game of the competition was played on the 23rd insi, at the Hotel des Colonies, Shanghai, between thirty and forty chess enthusiasts, including the President of the Club (Sir ilavil land de Sausinatez) assembling to witness an joteresting game. Mr. Souza's opponent in the final was Mr. M. de jesus, who started Wednes- day afternoon with the heavy handicap of having already lost two of the five games in the Goal round, and having also to play black. He made the early mistake of sacrificing his white bishop for a knight, and thereafter was on the defensive all through, allowing his apponent to exchange right down to pawns with: a piece ard the position in his favour. There was little hope for black niter the exchange of queens, but Mr. de Jesus played on doggedly,

y. G. D. News. even when his last slender chance was gone.—

A COPPER HOOPED cask formed the coffin of

SUBSIDIARY COINAGE IN ·

HONGKONG.

·ATTITUDE OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The question of subsidiary coinage in Hong- kung has been brought to the attention of the Chamber of Commerce by the Pon. Mr. F.

Osborne, secretary of the "Star Ferry Com Pay M. Osborne wrote on the 30th ult. to the Hon. Mr. E. A. lieweit, Chairmen of the Chamber, as follows:

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Sir, I have the honour to draw the Cham- bar's attention to the recent fall in the value of British subsidiary coins by which this Com pany and others whose business lies on a cash basis, are losing heavily.

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2. And apart from loss to individuals the matter is, I submit, of sufficient importance to the Colony at large to warrant the considera- tion of your Committee.

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29. 1906.

To-day's Advertisements,

GOVERNMENT DILLS.

Intimations.

THE

TENDERS for SPECIE, BRITISH and

NEXICAN DOLLARS, current in this ROBINSON Colony in Exchange for Sterling Bills drawn at to days' sight on the Lords Commissioners. of His Majesty's Treasury, London, will be received by the Chief Paymaster, Army Pay De partment, until er A.M,, on the 1st June, 1906,

The Tenders to state the total ́amount (in Pounds Sterling), and the amount for which cach Bill should be drawn, but no Bills will be issued for less than 100.

covers, addressed to the Chief Paymaster, Tlie Tenders to be in Duplicate, and in scaled Army Pay Department, and endorsed "Tender's for Government Bills."

",

The right to accept or reject any or all of the Tenders is reserved.

Copies of Forms of Tender can be had on application.

3. For many years and until recently, Chi- nese subsidiary silver coins were at a discount maintained a parity of value with the dollar;

J. R. GALE, of about 2%; British subsidiary silver coins

Capt., A: P. D., whilst British copper coins as measured in Chi-

H.M. Trensury Chest Officer. nese silver coins were at a premium varying His Majesty's Treasury Office,

Fletcher Street, from 2 to 4 per cent. British subsidiary silver

Hongkong, coins are now quoted about 5% discount and Hongkong, 28th, May, 1906 copper 9%.,

The former disparity between British and Chinese coins was, I understand, due to difference in fineness.

4. Recently the Canton silver coin has shewn a tendency to further depreciate and, what is of

iy dragged the British coin with it, the reason more importance to Hongkong, has apparent.

assigned being tharthe debtor, finding he can discharge his liabilities in the baser coinage, has no further use for the higher.

3. Following immediately upon the mising in Canton of copper coins, the British one-cent piece sunk to the level of its Chinese counter- part and, it is assumed, for the same reasona as led to the fall of silver coins.

6. So far the Canton officials have apparent. ly been satisfied with a moderate difference in fineness between their coins and the British If their object be to drive the latter out of cir culation in their country, their action in at least intelligible and, provided competition between the respective coins remains as at present, doubtless matters will right themselves at no great loss to anyone but the Hongkong Government.

7. But if rapacity be the mainspring of their policy the question becomes serious; for, unless nipped in the bud, this debasing process will grow to large and ruinous proportions, and to the prejudice of Hongkong's trade. Each successive official will seize the golden oppor- unity until hopeless confusion and loss bring

matters to a crisis,

8. To make matters worse, a Chinese dollar nole has recently appeared in the Colony and is actually in circulation at Conton."

PUBLIC AUCTION,

PIANO

CO, LD.

NEW PIANO'S

$70 CASH

AND 18 PAYMENTS OF $20 EACH

[601

or $385 cash.

THE Undersigned has rece ́ved instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUČTION,

ON

FRIDAY;

the 1st June, 1906, at 11.30 A.M., at his - Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,

..

1 APOLLO PIANO PLAYER..

1 COTTAGE PIANO, by Anbar Allison.

by Dorner.

No. Do.

by W. Robinson &

Co

(All in excellent condition).

AND

A QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

ALSO

3 FOWLING PIECES. On view from Thursday, the 31st May. TRRMS-Cash on delivery.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 19th May, 1906,

PUBLIC AUCTION.

[598

~HE Undersigned have received instructions

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

on

SATURDAY,

the and June, 1906, at 237-P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Vœux Road, `corner of Ice House Street,

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A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF JAPANESE CURIOS,

Comprising

OLD SATSUMA VÄSES, INCENSE BURNERS, WALL PLATES, GOLD and SILVER CLOISONNE WARE, TEA SETS, LACQUERED WARE, SILK EMBROID. ERIES, OLD BRONZES, WALL HANG. INGS, KAKEMONOS, IVORY ORNA- MENTS, &c. &c., &c.

Catalogues will be issued. TERMS: As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Manukany, 29th May, 1906.

9. If your Committee consider there be cause for alarm doubtless they will move Government to legislate in the matter, and now that the Government's profit on subsidiary coins is endangered (for if there be no demand there will be no further coin ge, and consequently no further profit) perhaps their former reason for a policy for non-interference will no longe

the evil in its incipient stage. weigh and there may yet be time to frustrate THE

to. As regards a remedy I venture to sug gest that British colus be rehabilitated and protected by making them legal tender up to any amount, to the exclusion of all other coins, and by Government pledging itself to redeem all its coins at par.-I am, etc.,

Edward OSBORNE,

Secretary,

"Star Ferry Company, Lid..

In reply, the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, writing on the 28th inst, said ;-

Sir, I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 30th ukimo in which you direct stien- and others through, what you term, the fall in tion to the loss sustained by your Company

the value of Binish subsidiary coin, and to in

fel consideration of the Committee of the form you that your letter has received the care.

Chamber of Commerce.

..

PUBLIC AUCTION..

(605

Undersigned has received instructions

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,

ON SATURDAY,

the 2nd June, 1996, commencing at 2.45 P.M., at No. 6, Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon, A QUANTITY OF

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

A150

One COTTAGE PIANO, by John Broad- wood & Sons (in good condition).

(Particulars from Catalogue). TERMS: As Customary. On view from Friday, the rst June, 1936,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, 29th May, 1906,

· [596

BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO

CONSIGNEES.

S.S. "BENAVON," FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in

formed that oll Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous endfor extra

and for from the wharves delivery may be Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence obtained.

Mr. Dixon, addressing the Court, said that and say if there is any further work sufficiently | 1. A. Alexieff, a St, Pelersburg cooper. The intrinsically it is not worth so much as the hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and

he had received, the doctor's report as to the condition of the policeman when he was sent to hospital, and from that report, it was his desire now to withdraw his application for a rehearing The point now was the question of hard labour. He explained that hard labour in these climes 10 a for eigner was too much, and furthermore it would go hard with the prisoner when he was released from prison. The report of the case will be sent to Germany and on learning of it, the prisoner would lose certain citizenship rights, and his employers-the Hamburg Amerika Linie would be compelled to dis- charge him from the service, if the prisoner had to undergo a terms of hard labour. On the other hand if the question of hard labour was waived, the prisoner would not lose his em ployment. He would suggest to his Worship to lengthen the term of imprisonmeet and to withdraw the question of hard labour.

urgent as to justily a supplementary vote. One thing I noticed w s that in several private lanes heaps of coal, building material, etc., blocked" the side channels. I'am inclined to think that when the roadway is relaid in private lanes a contre channel formed of a bolí-round, glazed, eanbernware pipe should take the place of the side channels. The Sanitary Board might

consider this suggestion.'

་

Mr. Pollock

TO PARTITION BANK BUILIR KGS. Hon. Mr. H.-E. Rollock, K.C., submitted an application to be allowed to put up a wooden partition in the verandah of his office in the second floor of Bank Buildings. stated that the partition would be of such dimensions that it would not interfere with light or air, and quoted a precedent for granting been granted in the same building. the application in a case in which it had already

Mr. Shelton Hooper minuted: if the law does not allow a thing like that to be done it should be amended. Every case should be

Mr. Lau Chú fak minuted: Whose power

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cask was Alexieff's own handiwork, and he was

particularly proud of it.

LEAVE of absence to the neighbouring coun. tries on private affairs has been granted to Captain I. RL. S. Shinkwin, Army Service Corps, from 4th June to 31st July.

Esant cases of babonic plague were notified to

the Pealth Authorities in Hongkong to-day. One of the patients, who is still alive, is an Indian belonging to the 129th Baluchis. Up to the present date there have been 640 cases of plague recorded in Hongkong since the beginning of the year,

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In the first place nwing to the fact that legal tender of subsidiary coin is limited and that currency dollar, its exchange value is naturally liable to fluctuate according to supply and demand.

2. The Committee of this Chamber are agreed that the question of the loss in the purchasing power of British subsidiary coln, however it may have been caused, is one which deserves serious consideration.

3. Without necessarily accepting either the statement in this paragraph as to the actual discount at which the British coin is Dow re- poited to stand, or that which gives the per centages of relative values in the past, the Committee do not wish to question your general remarks of a retrospective nature.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde livered after the 5th June, will be subject to

rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th June, or they will not be

recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 5th June, at 11-A.M.”

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 29th May, 1905.

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FROM HAMBURG, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

"RHENANIA,"

Hongkong subsidiary coin arose in the Sou

It would appear that the large demand for

thera Province of China, and while the Colony THE H.A. L. Steamship at the moment undoubtedly benefited by the then existing state of affaire, as it was not to be expected that this outside source of revenue would continue indefinitely and a change, brought about by (among other causes) an over- production of Chinese subsidiary coin, should not be looked upon as a matter calling for legislation on the part of the Government,

The second part under this head seems to

As compared with the English, says the New York Outlook, the American people lack the power of concentration and of holding their attention on one movement until it, bas beco carried to its end, The Englishman has the Mr. F. A. Horeland said that it was now too

capacity of getting angry and storing up late for him to do anything in the matter. As the

righinous anger as a motive power until the week granted for re-hearing had passed, the taken on its merits.

abuse against which he protests has been case was not now under his jurisdiction

removed. The American gets angry, and in a and therefore he could not entertain the appli-isit to grant such applications, and why are day or two either forgets or jokes about the cation of the question of hard labour being other similar obstructions allowed to remain offence which aroused his indignation,

The Medical Officer of Health said the only THE desened mansion of the magnificent objections are (1) the structure will be illegal: Prince Tavid was fitted up for the representa-imply a change in the difference of fineness (2) the Board has ng power to allow it. Mr. tives of Russia attending the Dama at a cost

between the Hongkong and Canton subsidiary Sharp was allowed, quite illegally, to put in a invatory in his verandah, although it was pointed put to the Board at the time that there was no power in the Board to allow it.

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waived. He would grant the application for the withdrawal of the application for a hearing.

Continuing, Mr. Dixon said he had another Application to make. This one was in the case of Carl Bruckner, engineer, s.s. Lyzemoon, who was jointly charged with Gaucho for assault, Bruckner was convicted and fined Sto. He

wanted now to issue a summons against P.C. Taylor for assaulting Bruckner,

His Worship. The policeman is still in hospital.

Mr. Dixon-Yes, your Worship. But we could remand until his discharge,"

The application for a summons was granted.

The Hon, the President minuted: Reply that the Board has no power to grant this

application, but ordered it to circulate.

evidence.

Captala von Hoff, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to. take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

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Optional Cargo will be forwarded unlessnotice to the contrary ba given before TO-DAY.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be Landed Into the hazardous and/or extra hazard- Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored

All Claims must be presented days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 5th June, 1906, will be

the likelihood of free fights being of frequent the past, but of this the Committee have ao of £60,000. It was decided--owing perhaps to coin of the present as compared with that of at Consignees' risk and expense. within ten occurrence-that a doctor should be continually in attendance, and that a special room should 4/5. It must be admitted that the *Over-pro- be set apart for the sick or wounded. Behind duction of Chinese subsidiary coin has resulted the Chair of the President was hung a huge pro- in its depreciation and has also reduced the trait of the Emperor in a magnificent gilt demand for Hongkong coin, but it is an error frame. It was visible from every part of the to suppose that a debtor can discharge his fiabilities in this subsidiary coin, though for sake of convenience no doubt many small debis are so settled

"I WAS celebrating the anniversary of my wed-ball. The ball was lighted with ancient lustres ding day" said a woman charged at Marylebone dating from the time of the Empress Catherine, with being drunk., "Well, I won't wish you many happy returns on this occasion, sald but brought up to date by being fitted with the magistrate. "You are discharged,”

electric lights.

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subject to rent

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All broken, chaled and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the gth June, 1906, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected.

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