1908-06-25 — Page 5

West River Floods.

THE CALAMITY IN SHIU BHING,

TAKING STOCK OF RICE,

[From Our Own Correifendent.]

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JUNE 25 1908.

in the town of Fatshan and Chon Taup, etc. The object of the ingol y is to prevent mer, [chants from storing up the stapls commodity, with "a vlow of "corening, the market, in a lime of strass. The foresight of the authorition is generally.commended... SALMON BAMPANS CAPSIZED,"

Yesterday faw' satipane wera capsized by the strong curren. In the harbour. Fortunately Canton, 21th June. Nót by a long way bave we'reached the last no loss of lives attended the mishap. It if chapter, in the tale of won which is being unsurprising that the chapter of accidents on the folded of the terrible flods and the concomit river is not longer than it actually is.

THE KAILWAY. ant distress which prevails in the districts swept by the violent waters of the Fu-ho and West. Rivers, News filters through slowly owing to the collapse of the land-lines of the Chinese Telegraph Administration. What intelligence we can obtain of the conditions in the inundated

districts are either brought by some of the survivors themselves or by members of the gentry who here to perform a dual emission by relating to the authorities here the bavec and dastraction wrought within their territory, and to appeal on Schalf of the survivors, for the bara staple of life to keep them from dying of starvation. There does not appear to be a single silver libing is the lowering clouds over. banging the horizon of the two sister provinces. Serious na the calamity is now, too painfully realized to be, the pullook for the immediate future, when the peasantry-the bulwark of the country--are bereft of their means of living,

The trala of the Fatsbau-Samshui line can now, run only as far as the Three-Eye Bridge.

Hongkong in 1907.

THE GOVERNORS REPORT

WAYBAR OF SEVERE DEPRESSIONS:

The Governor's despatch, dated 24th inti, to the Secretary of State reviewing the Blue Book for 1907, was laid on the table of the Legisla tive Council this afternoon, Sir Frederick

The revenue for the year, exclusive of land sales, amounted to. 56,447,529 or $179,549,

less than the previous year, Land sales amounted Beyond that stage traffic is wholly disorganised 139.750 or $ 55.981 less than in 1905. The total revenue from all sources was therefore up to the present.

$6,602,280 or $432,731 less than in the previous year. All the main sources of revenue show an excess over 19:5 with the exception of licences, rent of Government property, interest and land saler.

HONGKONG'S ACTIVITY.

Remarkable activity has been displayed by the leading members of the Chinese communi ty in Hongkong in responding to the calls of their compatriots in Kwangtung and Kwangsi. As we announced yesterday fo almost no time the first remittance of $10,000, borrowed as an emergency loan from the funds of the Tung Wa Hospital and remitted by T.T. to Canton in the forenoon, was wholly subscribed by five o'clock in the afternoon. Later in the evening farther signatures ware received which swelled up the amount of subscriptions for the day to over twelve thousand dollars. Early this morning several leading members of the Chi- is still more `gloomy. There is a certain | nese community volunteered to canvas for con- prospect of famina stalking' the provinces,ributions in person, prominent amongst whom and in its trajo a recrudescence of piracy were Mr. Chau Siu-ki, Mr. Ng Honchi (còm- and lawlessness which the unrestrainable pradore, National Bank of China, Ld }, Messrs. bandits of Keangsi are only 100 ready to fallChiu Yu Tia, Li Shid Hin, Pun Yan Tiuo, back upon in times of strous and trouble. Lau Chu-pak, Li Yau-chun, Siu Yuen-fai and With them history will, repeat itself,

all the director of the Tung Wa Hospital; At

It is now just about a week since the freshet began its unc fecked career of wholesale des

•truction, yet there is no siga" that the water in the surrounding districts or even in Canton itself is going down to any visible extent.":,

Those in charge of the various charitable organisations of this city are pursuing, their benevolent duties with unabating energy and vigour. Névér before has it been known that "the unraimily and spontaniety of action have

· been as general as they are on the present occa sion when petty differences are "sunk in the common cause of alleviating the sufferings and pangi of hunger of several tens of thousands of fellow creatures. “The relief expeditions are indefatigable in their efforts and promptitude. As fast as it can be done rice and food stuffs are rushed into the districts most urgently in need.

SHIV:HING, DISTRICT.

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4.30 p.m. all the subscription lists were return ed for to-day. The day's collections aggregat |ed $8,000, thus bringing up the total to $20,000. A second remittance of $ 0,030 will be wired to Canton to-night. By the 14. Fateharien farther consignment of 40 piculs biscuits will be made to-night

Until yesterday the worst reports of the flood have reached this city from Samshult now appears, however, that an appalling dis fer overtook a township in the district of Sbiu-hing famous for its warges. It is reported. that, on the gist lastan, the embankment in Bam Chow Wai in that district gave way. The villages in the vicinity were all engulfed." It is estimated that, in all probibility, over a thous and lives most have been lost within a few hours on that falsful day.

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THE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, The Canton Charitable lostitutions again

KMBEZZLER CONVICTED,

NETHERLANDS bank's shroFF IENT TO GIOL.

Chan Chan Ting, an accountant and shroff in the employ of the Netherlands Bank, was, to the Police Court, yesterday afternoon, found guilty of emb zdling certain funds belonging to thecompradore-Mr.Chan Ngi Ting. Thesum at isse was $192.c. From what was stated in evidence the accused had only been in the employ of the buck for some fourteen months. Some time last week his books were examined and the defalcations were discovered. Ho wan sentenced to six weeks hard labour,

OLD SWARTEKARİN MUT.

INTERESTING Gossip at Yau-MA-T!

There will be no end of trouble if a story which is being discussed at Yau-ma-ti-to-day gets to the cars of a certain“ party, For the good of the peace we hope not.

At about ten o'clock last night, at an hear when everything was abustle on the other side of theharbour, a rather attractive-looking Chinese

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Light dues; licences, fees of Court, Post Office receipts, and rent of Government pro perly brought in togellar $302,594 more than | was estimated. The receipts under the "re maining hands of revenue were altogether" $146,349 less than were anticipated when the estimdes were draws up.

The expenditure for the year was 51,028,553 exclusive of Public Works Extraordinary in clusives of that item it was $5,757,3 or $1, 75.407 less than the total expenditure of 190ś..

D.ducting from the actual receipte r 1907 the total expenditure, there was a surplus of 5845,076 on the actual worling of the year.

ASSETS AND LIABILITIES,

At the end of the year 1907, the assets of the Colony amounted to $1,60,733.99, or including arrears of revenue $1,739.717-37. The total

Jiabilitids were. $1.37591..13 10 that the sur plus of assots over liabilities amounted to $1,533 717.19. J

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PUBLIC DEBT inscribed stock at 34% interest. £341,799. #t, incurred for: riya" Reclamation"} Central Market; Water, Drainage and Sewer- age Works, &c., to be paid off on 15th April 1943.

Fund with accrued interest reached £61,813 The amount paid into the Joint Sinking

In its Another rece

"Industry" has recently been

sued by:

Ld, but the comanny

Abbe

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IMITED.

COMPANY

FOR SWATOW,AMOY AND FOOCHOW.

HE'Company's Steamship HAIMUN,*

established industry is THE

Large quantitier of their products are being ex- me or by the Imperial Brewing Co. Ld. ported to the various porta la Chion. The capacity of the plant is 1,750,000 gallons par

FISHERIES

annum.

A considerable proportion of the boat-popula tion of Hongkong supports-itself-by-deep-sen fishing, in which pursuit a large number of junks are engaged. The villages of Abundean, Stanley, Shaukiwan, and many others in the New Territories are largely dependent upon this industry for their prosperity, Fresh water fiab is imported from Canton and the West River. There are oyster beds of considerable valux in Deep Bay...

FORESTRY, BOTANICAL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE.İ

above Ports, on TUESDAY, he goth instant, Captain Rabson, will be dispatched for be at 3 o'clock FM.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.

ha General Managers. Hongkong, asth June, 1908:

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KOWLOON CATHOLIC, CLUB:

Intimations.

SPECIAL

BARGAINS I

OFFERED IN SOME

FIRST CLASS

PIANOS.

Rachals

MEMBERS AT: HOME,"

Members of the Kowloon Carbolic Club: fore, athered on the grounds of the Kowloon Catholic church last evening, on the occasion of an "" At Home" given in honour of the i evi Fr.G. M. Spada, on the occasion of the fortieth Hoogkong fifty-four thousand two hup anniversary of his birth, by the newly-formed dred and ninety-five pits were dug and sown Kowloon Catholic Club, which posse5101: 20 with pine seeds by the departmental staff, active and persevering secretary in the person Thirty thousand pits were sown by contract of Mr. Walter J. Emma The grounds were with no result to the majority of cases. In beautifully decorated for the occasion with the New Territories £11,156 pits were dug by Japanese lanterns and piles, which present- contract and sown by the department; while ed a gay and fively appearañco, 14,557 were planted by the department, and was a fair number of ladies present, whose 8,003 by contract. One hundred and fifty-two gracious and almost indispensable pre shade trees were planted in streets in Kow-sence on such occasions is such a great Collard loon, and 45 in streets in Hongkong; while factor in enlivening the proceedings. The 255 trees were planted along the newly formed popular string band of the Sociedade Philar. backs of May Road and Conduit Road. Six monica discoursed excellant music, and dancing Steinweg baudred and ninety-six bamboos were planted was indulged in most of the tims, and was kept along roads at the Peak and elsewhere, while up till eleven o'clock. 92 Hydrangeas and 101 Azaleas were planted out on Crown land' in various parts of the Peak.

LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF. LAND:

EDUCATION.

There

Mr. M. S. Guimaraes, in the course of the pro Hopkinson

ORDINARY

TO CLEIE PRICE.

$565 $700

535 650

410 500

580 700

540

650

430 550

395 500

FULLY GUARANTEED,

CASH or UREDIT

SYSTEM.

ceedings, addressing Father Spada on behalf of his well-wishers and friends, said:As we are Haake here to-day to celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of our very reverend friend Father The amount received from sales of Crown Spada and it being also co-day the anniversary Bretschneider 340 450 Land was 5161,459, baing $ 54,374 less than of St. John, the Patron Saint of Macao, it is the receipts for the previous year. This fall. our duty to take up our glasses and toast the Inscribed Stock at 31% interest (Loan of ing off may be attributed to the continued de health of our dear chaplain and intimate friend, £1,100 000 at 41% to Viceroy of Wuchang) pression of business throughout the year and and pray St. John to unfold hip cloak and de- placed to credit of Special, Account £120,000, principal items were for sites for a Cigar Fac Macao, our well-beloved Father Spada from all £4,143,9334 1× 48, (Amount paid by Viceroyo general tightness of the money market. The fend, as he did in the Dutch invasion of

which has been advanced therefrom for Rail tory in Kowloon and for a Browery at I ai Chi evils. (Applauso.) To toast, toast is nothing. To in 1911. way Construction) Soking fund commences Kok in the New Territories, a lot at North embrace him, to love him, to adore bim is also Point and land for an extention of the Stand-tils. We need have a perverse and a stony

Kok. ard Oil Company's new premises at Lai Chi heart to ignore the sterling qualities that ador

the generous soul of our good, pastor. It is written in the Bible of how a good Shepherd The number of Government and grant gave up His flock of 99 head of cattle to go in. schools, including Queen's College, is 79 of search of a stray lamb. The lamb was found which 25 are upper grade schools with a staff and the Shepherd, far from chastising it, cherish- competent to give instruction in all the sub-ed it, and took it unto his heart, as our good The total of the shipping entering and clear.ecis of Standard VII and 54 are Lower Grade Father Spada is doing to all who require sound Schools under purely native management. advice. Proofs of self-denial and-charity on the ing at Ports in the Colosy during the year 1997 Generally speaking, the Upper Grade Schools part of Father Spada are' ab many and so well shows an increase of 77 908 vasseli of 3'781,041 tops when compared with the corresponding are taught in English, and the Lower Grade known that I would be imposing on your atten tion were I going to relate them. I will, there figures for 1906, in which year there was a de-chools are taught in the vernacular.

fore, conclude by requesting you, fadies and create of 1,412,813 tons due to loss of local

gentlemen, to, toast the health of Rev. vessels in the typhoon. The greater part of this is due to internal traffic-steamships.not

Father Spada, imploring God Almighty to exceeding 60 tons plying whin the water of

eep our most excellent and reverend friend the Colony." If local trade be eliminated, it

in our company ustit. He is pleased to call us, every one to the eternti mauso."(Lond applause) SALA

on the 21st of December, 1997. This includes the sum of £14,352, 88, 16 surplus of Interest paid by the Viceroy in the loan of £1,120,000

TRADE AND SHIPPING,

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The total number of pupils in average at tendance at Government and grant schools was 519 4 against 5,496 in 1916, Of these, 2,144 ers in Government and 3,78 in grant schools: 3,560 pupila received instruction in English, and 2,355 in the vernacular. The proportion

hold a meeting yesterday. The d scussion war remarkable for the sympathetic expressions of opinions offered, all of which agreed that the woman made her appearance in the charge- is found that the remileinz fi urës show the of boys to girls was 3,761 to 2,103,

lime, was for action and not words. It was resolved that, in addition to the supply of rice, Jargo quantities of biscuits and whatever food -stuffs-that-are-procurable-and-capable_of_easy_ transport should be bought up immediately to meet the present urgent requirements. It was

also resolved that the Shla Hou Kuk should be

respectable increase of 3,310 vessels of 579,8. 4 tons,

upon ic

The revenus derived from school fees was The Revi F. Spada suitably replied. $19.123, 530,442 of which was received from

'There were a few more dances after this," at:- The expenditure including that on Queen'sing was brought to a close Queen's College.

be conclusion of which a very pleasant even.

College was $ 84,038, being 3.19 per cent. of the total expenditure of the Colony.

PUBLIC WORKS.

A COUNTRYMAN AND A DRAFT,

room pf the Yau-ma-ti Pulice Station, and on being questioned, reported to the officer on duty that she had been victimized by a band farmed robbers. The woman lived in a village not faraway rpm Yiu-ma-ti,TMTMTM"I was just preparing to go bed," she stated, "when I heard a noise in my room, ad on looking round saw five men, one of whom was armed with a revolver. I was very frightened and dared not call for help. Even if i did nobody would have heard me as the nearest house to amine is some distance away. The robber seized me, gagged and bound me, and, smashing open my boxes, removed all my property."-

Instead of leaving the story at that the lady.opiam, of which accurate relores are rendered. was 'made with the latter, which are now in with, reserve.

again app diched with a view of providing another gunboat to tow cargo-bonts with pro-.

visions and necessaries to the inued sted dis tricts for distribution among those who stand

In need of first nid.

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A MUNIFICENT DONATION.

Moved by the touchin', sppeals of the ged. try, before the business of the meeting cop.

The figures relating to the import and export trade of the port, given in previous years, have, as pointed out annually, been based formation which can only by characterised as unsatisfactory and the results as erroneous and misleading. As it is obvious that such returns have no value, they are discontinued in the form they have hitherto taken, but the aggregates of the reports received are showe, for purposes of comparison, in round numbers. imports of sugar and imports and exports of

These include

The aggregates show an increase of about

353,000 tons in imports, of about 191,000 tons in exports and of about 518,000 tons in transit

INDUSTRIES, ・・

*The principal public work's in progress duri

ing the year, exclusive of the railway, were the Kowloon Waterworks both of which have been Tytem Tok Waterworks (1st section) and the described in previous reports. The former

AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE.

A very extraordinary story, which has en.

ROBINSON

PIANO Co., Ltd.

Hìnjking, 18th June, fc08,

NOOLWOK

LETOH.

gaged the attention of the police authorities for nearly twenty-four hours, leaked out to-day. If you want to give

were practically completed and fair progress Wo give the story, as it was presented to us,

A few days ago a middle-aged. Chinaman arrived in the Colony from the interi'r 19 cash, a draft for $700, which had been sent to him by some relatives from abroad. Opco ashore the countryman proceeded to a sali dealer's shop, at 69, Connaught Road Central, there to live daring- bis stay in Hongkong.

cluded, Mr. Su Sing Kui voluntarily sub. presuming that the police had believed her scribed $10,000 towards the Flood Relief Funds.story forgot all what she had said before and This gentleman's munificence was greatly up. proceeded to contradict herself. She was not sure now how many men entered the house. plauded. It is carently reported that his

She was not sure if any carried revolvers, benevolecce in the present terrible crisis.

either was she sure if she could identify them again. She was certain, however, that ons of them aprned her box and removed her owing to the determined competition of Japan. Progress to ensure an efficient supply of water Early yesterday morning, accompanied by a clothes. This, coupled with the fact that she

through which the provinces are passing will be brought to the notice of the Viceroy...

APPEAL TO HONGKONG,

appealing for monetary assistance, a despatch

During 1997 the price of refined sugara in the Kasi still farther declined, principally as a result of the lower cost of raw sugar, but also

ese refiserica sceking to capture the local re- The quantity of sugar refined in Hongkong

such a forward, state as to be fully capable of supplying the whole Peninsula with water The extension of the distribution system in the important villages of Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City and Taikoatsui was completed and the substitution of mains of larger diameter for those originally laid at Kowloon Point was in for fire extinction purposes, the erection of large

LAW COURTE AND, POST OFFICE The New Law Courts and New Govern ment Offices were still under constriction

Besides the urgent telegrams to Hongkong | had goi a mark about her to show where she fucries-old established Chinese connections. godowas being in progress there was yesterday cabled in the Tung Wa Hospital was bound, aroused suspicion in the minds of in your Colony to bay up all the available the police."

to Cantón.

·TRANSPORTING SUPPLIES

comestibles.to proceed up river,"

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was, however, larger than for years past, and'

foki from the shop, the countryman ¿called at-a Chinese bank at 116, Queen's Road Central, 'and bad the draft cashed. This accomplished, they returned home. About an hour later When the lady had quite finished speaking was disposed of in China and other markets, whilst the Public Mortuary near Yanmati and fact, by ons of his friends to whom he had the countryman's attention was drawn to the supply of biscuits in the market for shipment—she was in the station for nearly an hour, is { although at a loss io some instances, and on the Time Ball Tower on Blickhead's Hill, handed the roll of billi for examinatico, that

might be mentioned-a police officer, who

very small margins of profit in others. By the At & o'clock this mo ning a gunboat was had been dispatched in the meantime to end of 1907 the strenuous competition from Kowloon, were completed A new building one of the banknotes Chartered Bank placed at the disposal of the Relief Committed inquire into the matter, entered, and de- Japanese quarters had, however; exhausted to accommodate the Land Office at Tal Po, o46-was: a forgery. The note in question. was passed round" for inspection, which by the Shio Hou Kuk. She was despatchedclared the report it be false. This the itself, and it is confidently ex ected by those which had hitherto been housed in a tempor

nots was originally Along with several cargo boats in tow carrying woman denied emphatically, but when she best able to form as splsion that-local-inary matshed structure, was in progress a new disclosed that the banknote rice and large supplies of biscoin and other was told certain little things about herself dustries will be able to maintain and improve market at Shi-Wan-He, near Shaukiwap, was of Ss decomination and had been altered to

she broke down and confessed, stating that their position.

practically completed an extension-of-the-represent 5:00. The forgery was very clever she was forced to concoct the robbary story to

The demand for yarn during 1907 was even Staf Quarters at the Government Civil indeed and, could oily have been detected, protect hertelf. She was a good woman, but

mare unsatisfactory than during the previous Hospital was undertaken to afford accom shall we say, by accident. she was driven to it. She would say no more,

pear, which was undoubtedly due to the failure modation for the nurses hitherto supported by a fost time than it would take to tall, the and was allowed to leave.

Thess failures throw a quantity of Yam on the of almost every Yars Shop in the Cotony. the Nursing Institute; and a fioricktha shelter countryman and feki were in the street and on was erected close to the Star Ferry pier in their way to the bank. They arrived them out market which had to be disposed of at a re. Salisbury Road, Kowloos. As the constiuca breath, and saw one of the accountants, to duction of Sr0/25 per bale on the contract price the Slaughter Hours and Cattle Depot at This banknote is a forgery," said the

tion of the Railway involved the demolition of hom the forged bill was handed. Owing to the large stocks on hand it was found Honghom, the erection of New Slaughter countryman's feed. You gave us that necessary to decrease the output of the local Houses and Depots was begun at Mathis morning, and we want it changed." Cotton Mill by reducing the number of spin. The Kok. Provision is made in the new dies running, and during the last three months eatablishments for considerable development it, and denied all knowledge of having bad The man addressed took the note, examined. beyond present requirements. The works such a bill in his possession. He then called of reconstruction of gulliar and extension of nulia training were continued, Stagood belog policemen and save both mee in charge. spent on the former and over $13,500 on the They were taken before fuspector Ritchie, st itter. A large tank for flushing portion of the Central Police Station, who detained them, the Sewerage System of the City was construct and sent Detective Sergeant Wall to” make in-- ed at the junction of Water Street and Queen's

Throughout yesterday the Charitablé ́Ing stitutions baught up all the biscuits in stock from the bakeries in the city. The bakerien have been ordered to turn ont the largest supply they are capable of producing in a single day.' The entire output will be required to partially fbad those in the submerged districts where

fuel is unprocurable.

HONGKONG RESPONSIVE.. Yesterday afternoon a telegraphic, reply was received from the Hangkong Tang Wa Hos- pital to the earlier despatches from the Nine Charitable Institutions and the Seventy-two Guilds. It advised a remittance of $10,000 to Canton on the following day. The Canton gentry has also started a subscription list in

'aid of the Flood Relief Funds.

RBBERS "AT WORK,

While the stricken suffarers are prostrated with grief in their terrible afft etion they are the ⠀ more of depreditors. Yesterday robbery was reported to laundstad dieʼricts. The Of his stringent orders to the flect the people from für:

ther

chom

The officer who was detailed to investigate learnt from the ever-watchial neighb:ura that the lady was married and lived with her husband, who worked in Hongkong and visited her once a week. Previous to her marriage with him she had two offers from other anisor, but she was not allowed to accept either of them owing to family reasons. When she of the year "short time was also resorted to shifted her home from the interior to Yama-ti Both exchange and the price of raw material she met one of her old sweethearts, who up have been in favour of the rope factory, enab peared to be in pretty bad straits. From timeling them to reduce their selling price to their to time she helped him along with what little customers to a lower limit than for some years cash she possessed : Last night the end came. On the other hand the lower price induced: He wanted a sum of money to take him to greater demand and the factory's larpovar: adRoad Wast ; the rifle ranges for the use of the "quities : By ulɛhtfall the sergeant had receiv Singadore. She had not the money, but being cordingly ab wed a fair increase,

of that kindhwarted fart she knew there were. No fanber additionu kara) been made to the other ways of killing an elephant than by plant of the Cement Company which with abooling it. She went to her boxes, amashed wood demand for cement hit bas item open, and handed her admirer all her uously employ clothing to pawn in order to gel the money, the Flode Millst After his deputure the remembered that bor rould be home on the jorn'ngland; #bis clos of biding

Volonicat Ressrs Association at the Peak and ed sufficient information to allow him to turn tables la 'different direction. He obtaine King's Park, Kowloon, were extended a NEW

ntryman and the fokt aging to

service reservoir at West Paint for supplying ed the release

The High Levels of the Chy was bagan ja now and took Inta

Cable Retary was establi

and the cables wats

the

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better than to invite

them all to this Hotel

on Saturday noxt, the

27th inst., at 8 p.m.,

and enjoy the Fine,

Cool

SEA

BREEZE

with the 105th M. L.

I. Band playing, ex-

cellent Programme on

the Lawn under Band-

master T. O. GABRIEL.

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