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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY DECEMBER 26 1908.

Morphia Regulations.

PROHIBITION OF IMPORTATION. AND MANUFACTURE.

HEAVY PENALTY FOR INFRINGEMENT,

178 POLICE BALL

OVER THREE HUNDRED GUESTS INVITED.

The annual dance of the Hongkong Police Force tack place at the City Hall to Christmas Eve and proved a decidedly enjoyable and successful function in every respect. The Regulations made by His Majesty's Minis-place was artistically decorated with a ter in Peking, which are declared to be urgent, relating to the prohibition of the importation and manufacture of morphla, are published in

tha Gitsefte

it is ordered that, on and after January 19!, 1999, any British subject importing lato China morphia or instruments for the injection of morphia except in accordance with the cond tions, laid down in Article XI of the Treaty of September 5th, 1901, for the importation of morphie, or any British subject manufacturing in Chios morphia or instruments for the jo-

Jection of morphia, shall, on conviction, be

liable, to a fias not exceeding so, or to im prisopment to any term not exceeding three months; or to both such punishments, and the instraments for the injection of morphia may be decited to be forfeited.

CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION. Os and alter the 1st January, 1909, the menu. laciare in Chius by Chinese and foreigners of morphia, and of syringes, needles, and such- like instruments for its use, is absolute y pro hibited ; and the importation of the came into China by Ghiocre and foreignersislikewise pro- hibited, except in the case of duly qualified fareiga medical practitioners and foreign

fallowing conditions:

abundance of evergreens and flags, which were very tastefully arranged. Machado's String Band was in attendance and supplied excellent music in accompaniment to the merry tripping of the Terpsichomans.

Dancing commenced shortly after nine. well-arranged programme was got up, which the merry-makers did ample justice to. George's Hall was reserved for the dancing white supper was served in St. Andrew's Hall Those who sought a spell of rest or were not very graceful dancers were provided with the

ever-attractive card-room in an adjoining room. Following were the committees appointed to whore ustiring pains the success of the enter

tainment was dua :—

General Commilton-Chief Inspector Baker, Detective-Inspector Hankos, Mess. Withers, Part, Gordon, Appleton, Wilson, Watt, Oggi Paterson, McDonald, Cooper, Ferguson, Stuarterring bands. Brooks, Elicott and Lee (secratary),

cabbage, beans, anchovies, pounded, fab, chilies made lato sauce, also tomatoes auch as the Italians usa, and pickled beans. The grocer sells, too, ekga preserved in coatings of clay, those which he can announce u

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Telegrams.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH "

SERVICES

MAGAZINE EXPLOSION.

300 HOUSES DESTROYED.

[By cowlery of the " Shoung, Po."]

Peking, 24th December. The gunpowder depot at Chinhai exploded on the 21st inst..

The noise was heard within radius of more than ten lis (about four miles); the people became rost

Shanghai, 25th December.

The other day an explosion oc- curred in the gunpowder magazine in the district of Chinhai, Ningpo prefecture.

served its purpose of relieving the pressurs on Hongkong space, and it is invaluable in many ways for the prosperity of the colony. It may be noted that among the recent additions to the members of the Legislative Council there

HUNDRED YEARS OLD✨ Sgures the name of a member of German firm, which is quite in accordance with the obtaining the best price, Piles of vermicell! principle which has made, and which keeps, made from rice decorate one of his long tables; ongkong a fren port; but in this connection bean curd, resembling the curd of chesse, fills it may be asked what probability there is of stone receptacle, and be la certain to have hoy Englishman holding any office in the the fins of fith and of sharks dried in the sun. 'Government of Klan-chow? It must be at once is soy is one of bis special products, and ha said that Germans have always occupied pro will doubtless have some in process of making. Aminent positions among the mercantile com. Small brown beans phiboiled form its baɛls, unity of the colony; that they have been They are next rolled la four and spread on Sexcellent citizens; but this fact in no degres bamboo racks to dry for ten days. From the does away with the pertinence of our question, facks they are placed in stone jars and covered Dr. Williams calli Hongkong "a Chinese with salt and water, where they lie until the settlement protected by British rule," and there necessary chemical fermentation takes place. is a certain amount of truth in the description: A Chinese shopkeeper who is well disposed but the facte remain, that this island, set in awe of varies are to offer a little silver sea, forms a stalking object-lesson as to

white cup of samaho, the national liquor," and the benefits accruing fram enlightened British he is not difficult to persuade that the processly alarmed. rule, that it shows the Chinese the value of of making it is interesting. la the back res officials who are incorruptible, as also the gions of his shop stands a huge stone boiler monied and social results flowing from the in which the tice for the samshu is first cooked administration of justice by impartial and un- before it is put into a jar, where it ferments for mouth. It next goes into a metal pot, and Canton may fily be mentioned here. The is set on a stove inside rings of canvas thickly ald foreign residents la Canton were, fifty years padded. On the top is another pot of cold ago, wise in their generation in recognising the water, and, as the spirit is distilled, it runs out possibilities of that place becoming, with an- The preparation of malt extract is an immense lightened Chinese co-operation, one of the most industry in Canton, and this paste, resembling valuable ports for foreign trade; but not until syrup, fills great vases at every shop door, out The M. C.'s were Mesir, Steart and Cooper, the native authorities allow railway to do there of which it is ladled as a sweetmeat for chil fall work will its valus as an entrepot boe entire, dren. It is made in the most primitive way, A word of praise is due to the Chinese con- ly established. "In 1858 H.M. Coniul there was and, as nothing is wasted in Canton, in one- half of the little wooden shed," where the pre- tractor Vin Kee, in whose hands the supper Mr. C. A. Winchester, an able, Scotsman, imbu arrangements were left, for the satisfactory way ed to his fogenips with Foreign Office ways, sent writer saw the extract in the making, a in which he carried out not the least interest-somewhat indolent in his methods, but an able couple of pigs were housed. In the other half despatch writer, and a man of very sound beyond a low bamboo railing dishes of rice ing part of the evening'e enjoyment

His assistant was Mr. (now Sir

were set to sprout for the saccharide stage judgment. Robert) Hart, and it was here that the latter that is known as mail extract. Stoves were laid the foundation of that knowledge of Chi-fitted on the other side of the room in which nese character and methods which has stood this extract was cooked with paddy, a cosme him in good stead through all the intervening rice. It was carefully covered with bamboo years. Railways were unthought of, the opening matting and allowed to simmer slowly in of the West River was a mere dream, and trade order to form the sweet paste múch appreciated was only just recovering from the effects of by Chinese children, - Governor Ych's arrogance and folly. The city was occupied by the jotar torces of Great Bri tain and France. The present writer, played cricket with Mulvaney almost under the shadow the Great Temple, and bad Ortberis by his side at the drop-scene rope during the Canton then stationed in the city of Rams subsequently attained to high commands, and a junior earned his V. C. at the taking of the Taku forta.-L. & C. Exprem.

Bar Commitice-Mestra, Ferguson, Elicost. and Kendall.

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* Supper Commitice-Messrs. Lee and Farr.

Card Committee-Messrs. Wilson, Adlington and Bell.

REQUISITES Chemists and druggisis complying with the who ably discharged their duty.

A Very Fine Selection in Great Variety

MEERSCHAUM and DRIA? PIPES, CALABASH PIPES (Special Assort- ment) SMOKERS COMPANIONS, MEERSCHAUM and AMBER CIGAR and CIGARETTE HOLDERS, CIGAR and CIGARETTE CASES in real CRO, CODILE SKIN, SNAKE SKIN, &c. TOBACCO POUCHES in BEAVER, CROCODILE, SNAKE and DOE SKIN, &c. TOBACCO BOXES and JARS, 'ASH TRAYS.

All these Goods are of the Highest Class and Specially Selected.

SUITABLE FOR

XMAS and NEW YEAR PRESENTS.

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Duly qualified foreign medical practi- tioners to import morphia and/or instruments for it are must sign a boat before their Consul stating the quantities to be imported and their values, the place whence arriving and the method of importation, whether by steamer (the name of which must be given), rail, ör post, and guaranteeing that there articles will be employed for medicinal purposes only; either in their private practice or in sme specified hospital. Upun the Coasut forward- is the bond to the Custom House a special landing perm twill, be issued after payment, ol

dury.

2. Foreign chemists and druggists destring

The Pelice proved themselves admirable hosts, which was very much appreciated by all who attended the dance.

HONGKONG :- 1858-1908.

BY AN OLD RESIDENT;

It is a revolution indeed from the barren, un-

kempt rock of fifty years ago to the prosperous, house-covered Victoria Peak of the present dry; but the change is merely emblematical to import morphia andfor instruments for its of the alterations which have taken place use must sign a bond before their Consul stat-politically, socially, and commercially-in the island of fragrant streams" since it was first called upon to go so far back as the latter date, but are content to note that in the first year with which we are concerned the island was

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NIGHT LIFE IN CANTON.

THERMOS FLASKSing the quantities to be imparted and theirceded to Great Britain. We are not, however, garrison theatricals. Several of the officer -of-the class whose parents would sell her as

A most useful. XMAS PRESENT for SPORTSMEN, YACHTSMEN and TOURISTS.

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4. All morphia and/or instruments for its use landed without Customs special permit will be confiscated.

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5. Duty on morphia and instruments for its use imported, under the above provisions will

be levied at the reduced, rate of 5 per cent Adsforem.

cautile firms from Canton to Boogkong, whence commarce might be more safely and cop.

war in its driving many of the heads of mer-

In the evening sitings of twinkling light, rise in every direction, and colour strikes a stronger note in the street scenes, for the even ing hours of leisure induce the richly dressed portion of the community to parade. The girl slave frequently sits is the windows of less houses or restaurants. There is the tinkling sound of the Chiness instruments and strings of little lanterns glitter and dance in the even" ing light. From tea room window you see the girls as they lean forward to talk and ind ̧b-|

and often the flash of jewels enhances Their robes are of the richest embroideries on shades of blue such as only pure silk can take

white with a peculiar rice flour until they the effects of the picture. Oval fices, took like velvet, contrast with shining black special paste. There is sure to be a desk of scarlet word in the hair, and the sheen of almond eyes

intense black or shadowed brown meets you from bebind a fan of mar vellous beauty.

The richness of Chinese

value, the place whence arriving and the method of importation, whether by steamer (the name of which must be given), rail, or post, and guaranteeing that these articles will be used exclusively in the compounding alt beginning to feel the effect of the "Arrow" prescriptions or sold in small quantities only

THE CITY OF CANION, on the 'requisition of a duly qualified foreigo

veniently directed. It is interesting to remem this day shows little trace of foreign influence, Canton is one of the Chinese towns that to warding the bond to the Custom House a special landing permit will be issued after-old mea, while their juniors were universally sails into the harbour, in one of the beautiful ber that these heads of houses were in no case and the first realisation of the stranger who payment of duty;

1. Any such importer of morphia and/or much younger than would have been deemed river boats, over a deep grey, placid river, past instruments for its use found dealing with or allowable-their responsibilities considered rows of xampros and of glorious brown-sailed bair, dressed and coiled and held in place by a selling-such, otherwise than in accordance by business folk at home. Business was, junks, is of something absolutely strange, of a with the terms of his bond, will not be per- however, in one way rendered safer by life incomprehensible to Western eyes. No the absence of telegrams, except a few which temples and pagodas rise to the memory when were forwarded by steamer from Singapore recalls Canton, of which the late Dowager while the fortnightly mails gave a breathing Empress of China was a bumble native. The space in which buyers and sellers might apdaughter of hucksters in Canton would pro- proach coe another without the disturbing bably be in no way distinguishable from the influence of political scares or cleverly manl crowds of women and girls who throng those pulated statistics. The French mail service to narrow streets to-day, as they did centuries ago the Far East bad not then been started, and Sp narrow are those streets that, stretching the P. and O. boats steamed into port with

your arm, you can often touch the small, close- letters of some six weeks back. The businessly set booths on either sides Everywhere the foreign ports before 1st January, 1939, may be asley was a factor, and much money glow and splendour of colour meet your eyes; landed under the old regulations during a

leisurely-maded operator, and much money crimson, yellow, blue, from the looms of the period after that date, the limit of which will was, made by sound judgment, and foresight, silk-weavers or the embroiderers, ibe gleam Hongrono, Saturday, DecEMBER 26, 1908 be fixed in every instance, by the Custom. The opium steamers may knots per hour of copper or of gold from the jewellers, House concerned according to the date of ship-faster than the P. and O, and driven for all they indiscent lights from the kingfishers' (ezibers THE OPIUM CONFERENCE. ment and the distance of the port whence were worth, were generally-like the character delily handled by the enamellers, and the end- shipped. Any morphia so landed under the io. Dicken's cavel round the corner," and less play of hues where the faumakers are using As the date for the meeting of the opium old rules must pay duty at the present tariff came in at their owners' sweet will and pleasure their brushes. conference, originally fixed for the 1st Jan-rate without refúction, "2,

after the opin and excbaoged quotations uery but since postponed a munih 1ster, at

which they carried had been manipulated for of the Cantonese in devoted to Loil, and yet they the benefit of the firm whose bousp fag they find time for recreation, for the hum of conis for receiving ten peails valued at $1,100 Shanghai approaches interest is aroused in

flew. The game was a very preity and a very versation and of laughter fills the street, and and the case is likely to prove of interest. ---- the forthcoming deliberations of the dele.

profitable one, and could hardly be taken: the traveller who passes through it in a chair gates of the Foreign Powers concerned in the suppression of the opium trade in China. From Shanghai we learn that a report is current regarding the appointment of Prince Kung as head of the Chinese Commissioners to the International Opium. Conference.

The Hongkong Telegraph elegraph

6. Morphia and/or instruments for its use shipped to Chica by foreign merchauts from

The necessary black hond forms will be issued by the Castoms on application free of charge......

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By Order received through the Inspector exception, to; but it ceased with the extension

General of Castoms,

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A. H. HARRIS, Commissioner of Customs.

CUSTOM HOUSE, Kowloor, 16th December, 1908.

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LADY Lugard will be "At Home" on Monday, the 28th inst; at 4 pm.

The Prince Regent intends to send several members of the Imperial College of Physicians next year to sady medicine and surgery in Europe.

The North China Daily News hopes that this report will be confirmed in due course, Io his last letter the Peking correspondent of our. Shanghai contemporary reflecting without doubt the opinion held in dipio: matic circles in the Capital, drew attention to the fact that the personnel of China's pre CHAN YIU, a.coolie, could not explain how, 40 sent nominees to the Conference was disap-caltits of rice, worth $150, came to be found pointing. As the reason for this criticism in his possession and was therefore fined $15 the correspondent adduced the relatively in the Police Court. inferior positions in the official hierarchy BIGHT powerful tribes of aborigines in north occupied by the three delegates. No re Formos, whose supplies had bien cut off for fection was made upon the intellectual months, surrendered na 17th fast, delivering qualifications of the representatives, which, up 151 beads and 120 rifles.

of the telegraph wire to Hongkong.,

The Governor at the date from which our saview starts was the late Sir John Bowring, a many-sided, able man, who dabbled in Chinese literature and hymn writing, but who could be McCarthy, in "A History of Our Own Timer," strong when occasion required. Mr. Justin

describes him as " full of self-conceit, and with out ady very clear idea of political principles on a large scale, but he was undoubtedly and wisely firm is the "Arrow" matter, which was, after all, only the culminating factor to a long series of Chinese breaches of faith, 1 is not within our power to enumerate all the succes. sive governors and officials with whom Hong kang has been blessed during the past fifty years. Since the days of Sir Hercules Robin sop onward they have varied in' ability, suit ability, and adaptability; but the general result has been to increase the value of Hongkong. as an Eastern possession, and to increase the „Chinese respect for, and confidence"`in,' our

methods of govéroment,

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THE DAILY LIFE

jewellery is indescribable, and the woman who loves diamonds, but who has not witnessed the display made on the occasion of a worlthy Chinese wedding, has missed a delight, Al- though there is the ripple of careless laughter where the slave girls laugh and sing, a display of emotion of any sort is repugnant to the ideas the true Chinamas. Hostile demonstrations raise, a low sound resembling a grow! more than anything else but even in times of deep distress emotion is not exhibited.-Daily Tels.

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A SERIOUS charge is to be heard against Leung Luk, a married woman, and Li Hing Tong, re- siding at 164 and 286; Q seen's Road Central, respectively. The alleged offence against them

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THE Waiwupu bas cautioned the Imperial Realdents at Lhans and various parts of Mongolia against making agreement with foreigners unless written instructions authoriz. ng same have been received by them from the Waiwapu or other Ministries of the Central Government.

About 300 houses were destroyed; there were only a few casualties.

PEKING-KALGAN RAILWAY.

F-RESTALLING FOREIGN

CONCESSION.

· [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 24th December. The Ministry of Posts and Com munications has decided to build a. branch line of the Peking-Kalgan railway leading to Chingwantao, to forestall application by foreigners for a concession to construct the road.

Later.

Certain foreign merchants have repeatedly asked for the concession to build a railway from Chingwan tao to Ku-yung-kwani

application.

The Waiwupu has refused the

FOREIGNERS IN CHINA,

MUST NOT RESIDE OUTSIDE

TREATY LIMITS, Í

[By courtesy of the "Shaung Po||

Peking, 24th December. The Waiwupu has urged the For cign Ministers to instruct their re- spective nationals to take up their residence (while in China) with Treaty limits only or in foreign settlements; they should not be allowed to live outside such settle- menta in Chinese territory,

It is desirable that subjects of foreign Powers should comply with Treaty stipulations in this respect.

SHOWING THE FLAG.

ANOTHER SOUTHERN CRUISE CONTEMPLATED.

courtesy of the Shoung Par

will find himself pressed upon, gaxed at, and criticised by a dense mass of people, who touch him, and do not hesitate to ask him questions that are frequently embarrassing At the upper ead of every little room into which you glance there is a large screed, gay front flowers are set, fiacked, on days of special A PERING letter states that the Prince Fegent with gilt and colours, and on a small table in

observance, by a dish of roast pig and a few has informed the various Viceroys, Governors oranges. This is the jass house, without and Tattar Generals of the provinces, that the which no family would regard itself as secure New Year's gifin and those presents usually, from the wrath of the many gods-such, for given by them upon the accession of a new example, as one of the you enclosed within the Sovereign will not be accepted, with the excep great temple. Birds twitter from cages at each tion only of such as may be used for sacrificial open doorway of you pass, and frequently the worship before the tablels of their late Imperi trift of a bird's note rises londer th in all the Majestics Emperor Teb Toung ching(Kuang noise around you. The Chinaman bas Heu) and Ampress-Heiso Ching-hsien (Em peculiar love for birds, kad it is rare to see him press Grand Dowager Tes-bel, elc., etc.) set out, even on a long journey, without his FOR falling to enter in a register the name, bird in its gilded cage wrapped in a blue lines cloth.

sex, age, occupation and date of arrival of two spection and "to show the colours' lodgers, on the 20lb. lost, and also failing 10 to Chinese residing in those regions. have printed in a conspicuous place on the Whatever be the ware sold by the shop-third floor of his premises the number of per. It is expected, furthermore, that keeper, his store is filled to overflowing, for As a place of residence Hongkong has, of space is at a premium, and the booths are all 5008 which the floor may legally occupy, Chin course, made material progress during the half tiny. You meet the Cantonese who has been Fang, of 191, Des Voix Road Central, had to the officers will gain experience in century udder review. In 18:8 many buildings busy over his morning's shopping. He has a pay $50 and $15 on the two counts at the navigation by the cruise.

Police Court on the 24th inst. The first charge the cause of opium reform stood to suffer in on stealing and roll of black, striped skin were to course of erection, and sites for them bamboo-rod over his shopiders, aud you notice { ́was aled preferred against Lo Sam Tiis, of 40,

The Central Government has sano were determined more by situation than by his mast litle scraps of meat or fish, and

tioned the proposal.

a■ ■ correspondent has rightly pointed.] It is reported from Peking that it has been out, are beyond question. But in view suggested that Prince Kung shall bead the of the importance attaching in China to Chinese Commissioners at the Internationni outward ceremonial,, the Shanghai journal Conference to be held next February at comments editorially that it was obvious that

Shanghai..

valued at $40, the property of Ho Wa Sang, of

the eyes of the Chinese public, if the Gos-41, Wing Lok Sirest, Chot King, An oldin ernment considered the International Con- ployed Chinaman, was given three months ference of not sufficient moment to require hard labour.

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sanitary fitness, Old Chinese graveyards were similar small scraps figure at the doors of the Connaught Road. West, and a fins of Sto

Imposed. upturned in many cases, and the hot sun beat-eating houses, nicely tied and hung on strips ing on germ-laden detritus laid the foundation of bamboo. The shops of the greengrocers are SIX years and bee day imprisonment in Bilibid the attendance of a highly placed offici-His Majesty the King has mat boon advised to

for the Hongkong Fever" which has done so most attractive, for all vegetables are washed was the sentence of the Manila criminal court al. It is not too late to rectify the mistake. exercise his power of disallowance with respect The molto on'that place of rest is hodie-miki; is; a favourite, and huge bundles of it, cut with A. W. Hall, charged with the falsification of a much to fill the cemetery at Happy Valley," and spread out to the bast advantage. Spinach on the art last imposed on Alfred Hall, allra Into which the Chinese authorities' might to Ordinance No. 16 of 1958, satitled an Ordin-cras tibi; and cholera, sever, and, in later years pretty, long stems, and perfectly, washed, are public document. Hall appeared ip court and have fallen. Prince Kung, it will be remem. ance to extend a certain definition is the the plague, have dons their best to make the displayed in every shop. Lettuces, onions, at first entered a plea of not guilty but after bered, was appointed High Commissioner for Imperial Act styled the Evidence (Colonial motto appropriate. the Suppresilon of Oplum last April, and Statutes) Act 1997.

No notice of Hongkong and its progress. his presenco at the Conference would not YESTERDAY, several ships in barbour were would be complete, without a reference to only be a courteous recognition on the part gaily dressed in honour of Christmas, Day, Kowloon, Fifty years ago it was merely a of the Government of the resistance in the The usual festivities werd indulged in right strip of Chinese territory, and forty-sight years matter of opium suppression proferred by royally. Ficnic parties ashore and afloat were ago. His Majesty's present Keeper of the forsign Powers, but would also convince the very much in evidence, the enjoyment being Privy Parse led some picked man from his country of the importance attached by the ored the outings. The temperature was com

bahanced by the fact that ideal weather fave own regiment at a tent-pegging competition

on that allen polls. It is now no sane) Taking authorities to the crusade against paratively warm for this time of yair bat was

and will, in the falnass of Limi the drug

Just conreulent for Indiy

potatoes, vegetable marrows, cucumbers, and gherkins are in general nie. The fruit markets are literally crammed with fruit from season to season, Rica forma, perhaps, the mojj import ant part of the household supplies, since it is the basis for a number of articles in daily cop- sumption. Round the grocer's shop, for in- stance, you will note a series of large brows Jam, in each of which a long spoon is plac

consultation with bis attorney he withdrew the plex and pleaded guilty to the charge of falsi. fication, and the conit pronounced sentence without farther delay.. Alfred Hall was charmed with the falsification of a public document I post-office money ord es commissary.

that, as the specifications'aller

for

Peking, 24th December, HE. Tich Liang, president of the Ministry of War, proposes de Spatch Yung Shi-kee, next spring, with a squadron of oruisers to the South Sea Talande on a tour, of in-

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