The Hongkong Telegraph
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(ESTABLISHED – 1831
NEW SERIES No. 5896
CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deaths. Leading. Articles:— Cove
Opening of Quarry Bay Docks. A Shanghai Compliment.
The Responsibilities of Dealers." Japanese Shipping Subsidies, Telegrams :-) ? 10 and Customs Duaskan
Mden Tibetanje Pre
Poppy Cultivation.
Tang Shao-pl. SAS The American Fleol.
Sir Robert Hart, DENG
The Dalai Liɛma. An Exchange Bank Germany in the North. Legation Guards. China's Currency/ Pearls and Jadestones, "Minister to Germany.
The Yunnan Question,'
·Chinese Students."
The Opium Trade.
Commercial Treaty Commissioner,
Mestings
Legislative Council,
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Lid, Folice Recreation Club,
Singapore Businesi kolérests.
The Sino-Siamese Steam Navigation Co. Pollae:-
Committed for Trial.
Gagged and Robbed.
Harbouring a Woman, “
Story of a Gambling Raid.
A Wood Fancier in Troubla.
Being a Rogun and a Vagabond. Correspondence:
An Interesting Race across the Pacific. Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports:~-
B. & S.'s Dock. "Alarming Collapic,
A Local Solicitor.
Canton Insurance Office, Ltd.
Armed Robbery at Sam-shui-po, Hongkong Technical Institute... Invalided on Pension.
Hongkong Gymkhana Club. Discovery of a Now Comet." Marine Casit.
Volunteer Corps Orders Craigongower Cricket Club. Lawn Bowls
Typhoon Warnings, Golf.
Canton Day by Day.
A Jungle. Tragedy. China Borneo Co., Ltd. Suicide of Shanghai Dentist. Conditions la Manchuria.
The Presidential Campaign,
*Fire in Hankow..
"The Dalai Lama.
Shanghel Opíum Houses,
A Naval Wedding.
Chiness Engineering and Mining Co. Death of Mr. L. .C. §. Edmondston.
The Import Trade.
Tang Shao-yi's Reforms.
„Trade-marks in Korea.
Sir Cheng Tung Liang Chên. H.E. Tang Shao yi's Mission. Wrongful Arrest on British Skipa, China, Tibet and Great Britain. The Death of Mr. C. Brodersen. Anti-opium Tabloids. Monuments in China.
The Walwopu. Chinese Finance. The Miyasaki+mark," The Chipers Boycott in Canton. Shipping Subsidies in Japan. Japanese Banking Regulations. Suicide in Japan.
Steamer Freights on the Pacific. Japan's Peace Policy. The Yarn Trade.
"The Sugar Industży,m
Chinese Immigranta into Mexico. Steam Navigation Subsidies.
Pacific Steamer Freights.
Insult to a Foreign Lady.
yphoon in the Philippines.
Drowning Fatality,
Fire in the Philippines.
Singapore Freight Rates.
The Late Mr. L. A. M. Johnston,
The Oplum Trade.
Opium lo Bombay.
Storm at Penang
A New Opening for Bangkok-Hongkong
Steamers ( Bangkok-Hongkong Trado.
Commercial:
'Freight Market;
Weekly Share Report.
Exchange
Local and General.
BIRTHS.
At Shanghai, the, wife of A. F. WELCH, of On September 26, 1908, at Shanghai, to Mr.
and Mox, A, C, Newcomb, a daughter,
辆大十月九年四十三緒光
SATURDAY, OCTOBE
come are the tidings we have lately had presumed that they have from our Hongkong correspondent, inform" act
The Hongkong Celegraph ing us of the unusual interest which Sir their
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ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.
· HongKong, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1908.
OPENING OF QUARRY BAY DOCKS.
wventually
PANESE SHIPPING
SUBSIDIRSE G
“Great Britału!
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missioner to the Vajld' Siated!! "on behalf of their Impañial Me
country's remission;;" of
Boxer Indemnity of 1900,
at Alittig past 3 o'clock
#Tientsing, His, Excellanc "bykkit First Secretary! Fronl of his Highness Prince Recretary Taniel, Yuos Klasi suite. -A large number of th
Fóme
Shao-ji will give a public reception to-day as We understand that his Excellency Trang the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Bubbling Well Road and will attend a banquet this ovaning given by his fellow provincials at the Canton. Guild in Nisgpo. Read! After the banquet bis school fellows; the returned indents from the Excellency will attend a reciptson given by bis U. S. (Chinese, Educational Mission of the aanties) to be held at the residence of Mt. Ches Haan-ize, on Singkoepang Road,, Hoog. kaw.
THE AMERICAN FLEET.
AN IMPERIAL DECREE.
[By courtsey of the "Sheung Po,”]
Frederick Lugard; the enlightened Governor |'not so of that Colony, has lately been displaying in the work of the Hongkong Observatory. According to our correspondent's telegram
The paper mentioned attributes the pro Sir Frederick took the opportunity, in pre-Bu
depression in the shipping trade very senting the Colonial Budget to the Legitin- |
(8th October
to the working of the subsidy. It says that Live Council, of alluding to the Observatory Although much has been written from a director of a certain shipping company has and saying that Director Figg bad assured time to time regarding the system of ship repeatedly laid stress on the unfavourable him that relations between that establish ping subsidies in Japan, it has seldom been condition of his business, merely in order to s ment and the other Observatories in the Far suggested that outside the shipbuilders and bring about renewal of the subsidy (3rd October.).
East wore cordial, and that he had the best shipping corporations there has been any company has been receiving. It urges tha Without the slightest ceremony of a formal instruments at his disposal. The Governor gederal opposition to the allocation of funds authorities to pay the utmost attention to character, the most important dock in the proposed that Director Figg should visit Ma- by the Japanese Government for the purpose the question before making a definite decl- Far East, the largest and the most efficiently nila and Shanghai after the typhoon season of fostering the overseas trade. It has alston one way or the other. All this will equipped, came into compeion to-day, and see the instruments there used, and get ways been assumed, and nothing in the come as news, to those who believed that when the steamship Sungkiang was received into closer touch with the respective Directors. fore ernacular press of Japan appear Japan was committed to the subsidy system, hay,CH.Ug. Mordon Commissioner of
Chan Denby, U.S. at the new repairing works of Messrs. Butter-With regard to the reverend Director of the edi ntrary, that exporters and manu- and if in the end, there is substantial Customs: The French Municipal authoriti field and Swire at Quarry Bay. It is impos- Sicavel Observatory we are sure we may say faccre pqually arouable to the decrease in the expenditure under this head furnished a guard of honour of Ansamie polies sible to over-estimate the relation of the new that the welcome which Director. Figg will scl me of subsidies. By the aid of the the result, should provo as beneicial to which escorted his Excellency as far as the works to the future of Hongkong, nor their receive from that courtly gentleman will be Government in this direction, Japanese ship Japan as it will to legitimate traders. With limits of the French Concession, where, the potentialities in so far as the Hongkong & of the warmest and sincerest character pos- ping firms were enabled to carry goods at regard to the financial situation generally la Sikh troopers to the hotel
Ambassador was meet and escorted by mounted. Whampoa Dock Company is concerned.ible, and there can be no doubt that the rates which reflected disastrously on the Japan our contemporary reports that slowly The dock in which the unghiang has been conferences which the two officials will hold quotations submitted by foreign firms. In but surely the bankers are getting less timid. berthed has a length of 787 feet, which is a will result in many practical arrangements other words foreign vessels were penalised in The probability, is that things would never record in itself for the Orient, but it is also for the dissemination of early and u order that the Japanese shipping trade might have been so bad as they were bad they farnished with tributary machinery—all inthentic information respecting the course, be fostered and the overseas carrying busi-exercised a spirit of confidence a little longer. the manner of the princely house which is speed, and magnitude of approachingness widened and extended. Naturally, Business, however, is a dull as ever Bound to have its reflex on the ship-repair- typhoons, which cannot fail to be of the such a condition of affairs grated on those and the majority of men are engaged ing and ship-building trade of the Colony. utmost possible service to all the commu- shipowners of other countries who had to go only in work of adjustment. Needless to say. There cannot be two assays over the question nities of the Far East. These, remarks without benefit of clergy in so far as Govern- there is not a great demand for money as to the meaning and significance of those apply, of course, with equal appositeness to ment subsidies were concerned, and it Bankers have money in hand, but the rate magnificent series of structures at the East- the impending conferences between Director was only by the most strenuous exertions of interest has not fallen. The writer goes ern end of the Island, for it must be obvious Figg and the authorities of the Manila and established reputations that they suc on to say that about Yr7,000,000 will be re- that they will form a bulwark of trado con Observatory, and it is a peculiarly grateful ceeded in holding their own against the quired for the payment of income and resi tralisation. The only question is regarding reflection that when the round of visits pertinacious efforts of the Japanese to dential land taxes, at the end of the current their effect on the Company which has done alluded to by the Governor of Hongkong is gain a footing in centres which they had month, so money will then become a little so much towards the clevation of Hoog: over, much that is of prime importance to previously left unexplored. Our readers tighter, but the progress of the restoration of kong as a shipping rendezvous. Possibpeople out here to know, regarding typhoons, will remember the bold attempt which the normal financial conditions is not likely to ly in the end
be and that is not at present available, will have Nippon Yusen Kaisha made last year to beaffected. On and after the 15th prox. that the Dock Company on the peninsula been placed at the public disposal." capture or at least, to gain a share of the national Bonds will be repaid to the amount will be induced to even 'greater effort than
Bangkok, Hongkong and Swatow trade. and of Yao,000,000, and then a good deal it has exerted in the past in the endeavour
how that attempt failed. Then it was an- of money, which is now lying, idle 'for to secure a modicum,at least of outside
nounced that the Kaisha intended to secure summer and autumn silk cocoons Rod business and in that respect none will deny
the Bangkok trade from Singapore, making yarn will be set free. It is probable that the that much can be done. The enterprise of
(7th October.)
the latter port the headquarters of this rate of interest will drop again then. It is Messrs. Butterfield and Swire cannot be con-
The decision which was arrived at the branch line, but what success has attended only:"natural":that "money, should, becoms sidered in any view an a rivalry, although, it.|
other day by Mr. Justice Gompertz, in the that scheme, if it has been inaugurated, we tighter towards and after the commencement is bound to affect the established con.
There were of November in view of the approach of the ditions at Kowloon, nor can it be held Supreme Court, will be regarded with satis are not in a position to state. as a selfish undertaking with an ulterior faction by a considerable proportion of the also projects to advance the South Ameri: end of the year. Owing however, to the purpose. The business of the firm community, particularly those who are in the cap, Australian and European lines and in fact that National Bonds to the amount of habit of leaving their cameras with mer that respect the shipping companies of Japan: Y24,000,000 will fall due in the course of familiarly known as B. & S.," has so many chants who make it their business to provide found their efforts adequately rewarded as December, the money market may continue widespread ramifications that it can well afford to dispense with considerations other refill films or plates. We are not conversant the evidence as shown by the launching of easy till the year is over. Provided that the than those which interest it, while the fleet with the entire facts of the case, but it the magnificent new passenger steamers for forecast is accurate and well founded Japan seems that the platoxin in the action Europe and San Francisco undoubtedly should find her national finances in a very of vessels under the control of the firm is claimed $pe which he estimated as the proved. But the progress and energy of, much easier position next year than they sufficient to account for the construction of value of a camera which had been de the Japanese shipowners were in part attri have been since the end of hostilities. docks and slipways which no other single posited by him with the defendants in butable to the handsome financial assistance firm would seriously contemplate in this part order to be re-charged and which, it was repered by the Government and not to the As we have hinted, even alleged, they stated, had been misplaced to individed labours of themselves; - the slipways are of exceptional size, capable The defence was, apparently, that the camera though that was no inappreciable quantity. of accommodating vessels having a tonnage bad beca handed over by mistake to some- Of course there is nothing derogatory to the displacement of nearly 2,700, which ranks body, but it could not be proved that the shipping companies in accepting the sub- with anything beyond the confines of the instrument had been returned to the realsidies so freely offered, or running at a profit mother country, and the capacity of its power is practically beyond compare. All cr. In these circumstances the Judge the vessels which were presented to them this is good for Hongkong, however hard it held that the merchants were responsible for a free gift by the Government-vessels may hit the pioneer Dock Company, but in the value of the camera, which he assessed at 545 It would have been a decidedly cidentally it may induce that Company to curious position if the Judge had held bestir itself to greater efforts and, in that the dealers in films and plates Biblical phrase, seek pastures new. The were not bound to hold themselves respon omnipotence of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire sible for the return of the camera to the is best made evident by their independence, acknowledged owner simply because it had an independence which verges on the auto, cratic but which is none the less for the been voluntarily left in their charge. If such a principle had been enunciated the -benefit-of-this-Colony, whose trials-and-
On Septembar 27, 1908, nt, Shanghal, tha ja wils of Hi A, GRAY, of à 800,- Mustafo MARRIAGES.
of the world
the result will
THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF
DEALHRS.
tribulations grow heavier day by day, and are bootmaker who received boots to repair and the washerman who was entrusted with the alleviated by the labours of such a com-weekly consignment of soiled garments bination of capital. The first ship to enter wou'd have been equally able to retort when the dock is, as we have said, the Sungkiang, customer demanded the return of his
versel of 987 tons, under the command of Captain Pennefather, and we may assume with that confidence bom of knowledge that it is only the first of many whose defects and repairs have been transferred from Kowloon to Quarry Bay. It was a bold achievement in the first place to establish an immense dock ing venture at a place where natural,diffi- culties abounded, but there can be no ques:
tion as to its ultimate success. It is
ish possessions.
SHANGHAI COMPLIMENT.
(5th October,)
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belongings that they had been given to some body representing himself to be the owner or that they were unluckily misplaced. Such 3 condition of things would have violated every idea of confidence between the dealer and the customer and would have to a cer tain extent disorganised the credit system. gold chronometer to be repaired was to be A man who had handed a watchmaker his
not be found because it had been presented told on his next visit that the watch could
which had been captured during the war, But what went against the grain of most critics was that the money expanded in these subsidies was actually part of the loans raised in London, New York, Paris and Berlin, 50 that the best endeavours of for eign shipping firms to compete on a level scale with the Japanese were to a great ex- tent rendered nugatory by the action of
their own compatriots in the financial world
Telegrams.
*** HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH” SERVICE
CUSTOMS DUES.
COLLECTIONS TO BE MADE
∙IN DOLLARS,
[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]
TIBET.
Peking 2nd October. Duke Tsai, president of the Board of Revenue, is going to present a at home. Of late, however, the Japanese memorial to the effect that, in future, Government has been so hard pressed for all Customs dues and land taxes be ready cash that it has had to consider collected in dollars. the question of shipping subsidies. The financial crisis began with the failure of the smaller banks in the capital and in the more important provincial towns. That meant a corresponding difficulty on the part of the people to pay the increasing burdes of taxes and ultimately led to the reduction in the appropriation vote for the army and navy by economics made throughout the Govern £20,000,000. But even the extensive
achieved the end in view of relieving the ment departments to Japan have not
Bry methods of mutual trust would that merchants and other, including the
DALAI LLAMA NOT WANTED.
[By courtesy of the "Sheung (Po!]
Peking, 2nd October." The High Commissioner in Tibet
Government to use their best has telegraphed to the Imperial
turning to Tibet,
".
POPPY CULTIVATION. SHANTUNG GOVERNOR'S DRASTIC
PROPOSAL
(By[cuttery of tha~ Sheung "Po."]
Peking, 4th October. The American fleet being about to arrive at Amoy, an Imperial Decree has been issued commanding the Viceroy of Fulien to proceed to Amoy forthwith_to_supervise all arrangements in connection with the reception of the feet at that port.
SIR ROBERT HART
REPORTED RECALL
[By courtesy of the *Sheung, Par]
Peking, 4th October,
It is reported that the Waiwupu. has rocalled Sir, Robert Hart by telegramito Peking to consult him on mattóre affecting the financial system of the Empire
THE DALAI LLAMA."
ILL AT PEKING!
[By courtsy of the " Sheùng Pa}-
Paking, 4th October. Since his arrival in Peking the Dalai Lama has been ill.
The audience with their Majesties is, accordingly, indefinitely postpon-
ed..
Tat Bau and Choung Yam Tong have been instructed to wait on him. The expense attending the visit of the Buddhist Pontiff and his suitė to the Capital is some $18,000 a day. ***
Peking, 37th September The Dalai Lama arrived at two o'clock this
President of the Wai Wa.pt, the Chinese Direc afternoon at the Hankow Station. There was an official reception at the station,;, Na Tang,
with the Dalai Lama from Panting-fo, where they had welcomed the Dalal Llams on behalf of the Emperor and Empress-Dowager, All Chinese dignitaries were presented. In the Daisi Llams at the Raitsey, Ställen in Poke ing. Then the lafter left, for the Yellow Tem pic. The procession was headed by a hund of music and a company of police troop
en
ang
upon the Dalli Llama himself was carried Yo a yellow sedan chair, which was Inl ly covered. Mounted Llamak and – mnother company of polica followed. The pro passed the Italian Legation on the way to
mada by the procession was "splaadid, the ore der was everywhere very good,The retinoa of the Dalai Llama consists of thros hundred men, who barn with them eight hundred camela and four bandra ponies, Par MASH, KAMERA DA Paking, 29th September
There are four blgh llamas in the tatlaga 'of:
the so-called Yellow Temple. Their pression
only to be hoped that the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company will realise the increased necessity for rigilance in se.to somebody else¬one ̧ ́of the ordin. national financial stringency, and it seems efforts to persuade the Dalai Lamator and the Sub-director of the Lu-Hau Rail curing contracts and energy to prove the have been destroyed and for a time native press, have begun to view with disto remain in Peking instead of re-"] way, as well as Prince Yu and Duke Pu'arrived: ability which undoubtedly rests with the employes.The opening of the new.dock at least all those who had goods in the tem favour the enormous sum annually distribut-
The purport of the suggestion is by Messrs, Butterfield & Swire is a memor.porary possession of dealers would have felted in the form of subsidies to the shipping able event and it certain to give anxiety in uncasy as to their safe delivery. At the companies. The writer of Commercial to allow of reforms being introduced quarters other than Hongkong or other Brit- same time, it must be admitted that sympathy Notes" in the Kobe ferald is quite candid into the administration of civil is due the defendants in being mulcted in on the subject and his remarks, we venture damages, but the Court cannot take coguls to think, will come in the nature of a mild affairs in Tibet. ance of errors of judgment. What the re-revelation to those whose interests be outside The Imperial Government ac- abmber of mounted Llamisa Chine, medy for this state of affairs appears to be Dai Nippon. The writer la question remarks quiesces in the suggestion. At Shangbai, Hilda CLARKE to EDUARD
is that merchants and others accepting that with the exception of those connect- R. Vannewite, by Faster W. Rohmer, and
goods for repair must, in future, pre-ed with either the shipping or shipbuilding LOGAN-CORDETTO August 15, at St. Oswald Church Chester, by the Rev. E.,
Our progressive contemporary, the Shang sent the owners with receipts admitting frades, almost all the papers and apparently. Lowndes, Vicar of the Perith, assisted by a Times, devotes an extended leading acceptance and consequent responsibility majority of gommercial men are opposed the Rev. Canon Postane, Rector of Wiltas article in a recent number to the subject of and refuse to grant re-delivery without the to the renewal of the present subsidy system, ton, Cheshire, MALCOHN HUNTER, seventh son typhoons in these regions. In introducing presentation of the receipts. We bellere This system will come to an end next year. of the late Edward Logan, of Upton Lawn, the subject it makes allusion in an extremely that already the Chinese watchmakers gives to the sled they are ses Chestery and: of Mrs. Logan, Liwa-of-Gross, complimentary manner to references by the cards of articles handed them to be dealt dy has enabled the business men and com- Llanymydech,
grandson of the lats Lee Governor, at the last meeting of the Legisla with, and possibly firms, in other lines of panies concerned to develop their business Porcher Townabend, to Wincham Hall, Nasty Council, to the relations existing be- business adopt the same policy, What would enormously but that carelessness has been wick, Cheshire,to CECIL VERA, fourth daughter of the late Usedale Corbett, of Ashfield Hall tween the Hongkong Observatory and happen in the case of a customer who lost shown in, incurring needless expenditure.. and Crabwall Hall, Cheshire, and Mrs. Corbett, those controlled by the Jesuit Fathers his card we cannot pretend to say, but pro- The object of the subsidy, they contend, On September 29, 1909, at Shanghai, A. Sicawel and Manila. It extenda, bably the difficulty would be surmounted by was and is to enable the companies HERBERT MAURICE, only son of the late K, co behalf of Shanghai, to Mr. F. G. the dealer bolding the goods for a certain concerned to work on an independent daughter of the late for CE ELLIE second Figg cordial welcome to the Northern extended period, so that it might reasonably basis, but unfortunately, the opponents of daughter of the late John George Thirkell and Setlement in the Kowloon Director's pro be believed that the claimant was the actual the system claim, the result has only made (i) Mira Harry J. Sharp and joy orany spectre vilt contemplated by the Gover owner, just as in the case of goods found by them dependent, while the system has served Beds On September 30, 1908, at Shanghai, HENRY
GEORGE WANDESTORDE, eldest son of the nor when the typhoon season is over. the police, which are kept for a year and a day to disturb bulbom not only in Japan' butin Intel: Lients T. W Woodhead to Our contemporary a remarks will be apprein order to give the loser an opportunity other parts of the world; The Tokio Asuk FLORENCE LOUISE, second daughter of the clated la: the Colony and are, therefore, of substantiating his claim within that time Hich is strongly opposed to a renewal, 17′′Eäte William Hamlin, of Bristol,'".
reproduced textually from its columos. The by describing the articles, and also in the gates that Japan has been engaged most FOR DEATHS Man We food not my with what case of pawabrokers who are compelled to zealously in what it terms this foolists 15977 On August 19, 2008, MARCUS AARON SOPH; fearful interest and solicitude everything per keep articles for a definite period after the subaldy competition, and that little good 1) of Shanghai: Dseply Regretted post MCLE
On September 14, 1908, Shangtal, Aaraua taining to typhipons is invested for people individual has failed to pay the necessary has been accomplished. Investigations mado 1*Woon; British Admiralty Pilot, aged 45 years dwelling along the ses coasts of the Far East, percentage to redeem his property has by the authorities, says the draft, prove this, As Bhanghai, on September 3B, LAWRENCE Everyone who has ever lived in these re clapsed. It is well, however, that the Ides and in support of this amsertion the follow ZUO. BIOT EDMONDETOM, aged 33 years pieno gions knows how anxiously the signs of the that a merchant is not responsible for goods fog official report on the rates of shipping
in Ca Bapumber ag er godt at thangbal, Dr.
subsides, per ton, of various Powers, le pub- AJANKO WAND HAKKAS TIE weather are watched during the typhoon given over to his temporary control in the
ANG SAVE PARTS season through the middle of which, se ordinary way should bare boen so ruthlea!" Old Oather 1968 at ShangHal, CHARLE GRORG RICHARD BRODEREEN, of Bioms nording to the accepted authorities, we are shattered. In the case? to question the
Amount o at present passing and it will therefore be dealers had to pay half the amount claimed
ubsidy, per ton Jon Orober 3, 1908, at Shanghai, JoRN RO-ar to tell the "old hinde here, but then if they handed over, the camera to
Peking, 2nd October. HE. Yuan Shih-fun, Governor of Shantung, has memorialised the Central Government requesting that instructions be issued throughout all the provinces to stop the cultiva tion of poppy altogether within one
TANG SHAO,YI,
year
the
Dafal llame and besides the fourte furies of the first class and one hundred and Twenty-six of the second charts Or Bundead and sixteen servants and mighty soldiers are no companying them. The Dalal Liama brought six railway cars with gifts for the Court. -—-- Chime
AN EXCHANGE BANK.
· DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA.
By courtesy of the "Shemg" Poz]
Peking, 4th October. H. E. Tang Shao vi started on his Fu special mission to America on Brd instead ceESTVI
ANOTHER PROPOSAL.
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Poking, October.
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