COMMERCIAL.
Singapore Exchange.
March 20, 1913. On London-Bauk 4 m/s 2/4.3-8. Domsad - 2/4.3.33
Private 8 m/s 2/4.25 32
3m/a2/4.1-2 On Germany-Bankd/d 238.1-2 Private 3 m/s 242.1-2 On France-Bank did 191 Private 3 m/s 299
On India-Bank T.T,
On
Private 30 d/s
1743-4
178.
THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH, · MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1913.
Entertainments
to 14 a cat. Green snail, Japan ear, bull mouth, spider, fanny.cowries, murex, motlier-of- pearl shells, trcchus, tamesto, helmets, and muerols—all those, THEATRE and more are brought to tho dcoks for industrial and orna mental purposes.Exchange.
Radella Rubber Estate. The apnual general meeting of Radella Hubler Estate, Lid., was hold at Macra on the 18th ult. Mr. W. M. Sime presidel ever a perce nttendance of shareholders. In formally moving he adoption of the report and accounts be 15.7-8 commented on the satisfactory re- 107.8 gult of the year's working and hoped that the current year would | turn out equally good. The yield, from the estate could not kз con- Private 30 d/s 142.1-2 sidered other than excellent, and On Japan-Bank d/d 114.7-8 that notwithstanding the conser Sovereigné-buying rato $8.54vative methods of tapping .cm Ladia Council Bills last
Hongkong-Dankd/d Private 33 d/s On Shanghai-Bank did
88 58 *Privato 33 dia 80.5-8 On Java-Back T.T. 140.1-2
issue
India Council T.T. last
issue....
Discount
3018.
Bank of England rate
Bar silver in London
***
1/4
.1/4.1.32
4.3-4 5 p.0. 26.9.16
Singapore Produce.
ployed from the commencement. | The orly matter of importance | to which he had to draw their at- tention was the new mothol of curing rubber invented by Mr. By, no, which the dir or
ad
Resisted 15 scipl. La f..at the eзlate's entire
March 20, 1913. production was now being treated |
NEW BANDMANN OPERA COMPANY.
TO-NIGHT
For the First Time in Hongkong
Prices:
9.15
Banks
INTERNATIONAL BANKING
Cabu
CORPORATION.
BRANCHES :—
Calon 1
Repla
Hongkong Hankow
Capital and RastreemomenĖ7,050,000 (Qoid) |
about 450,000
Banks
HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORA-
TION.
Exchange
11
Selling.
.1/1134 4 m/s. L/C,
1/11 7/16 4 m/s. D'P
.1/11 9/16 6ni/s. L/O........
.1/11 11/16 30d/s. S'ney & Melbourne.../-3/16
1/1116
ROYAL
Buying.
Fload Office-do, Wall Street, New York: London Office:—jð, Bishopsgate, K.C. **
Bombay
Kobe
Paid-up Capital
T/T. " Demand ...$15,000,000 30 d/s
.1/11 15/16 ...2/-1/16
Calcutta
Manila
Canton
Kics
RESERVE FUNDS:
60 d/s...
Panama
Paling
Sterling
4 m/s .........
San Francisco
£1,500,000 at 2/--
Shanghai
T/T. Shanghai ...
734 30 d/s. San F'co & New York..4836
Verobama
$15,000,000
T/T. Singapore
..83
4 m/s, Marks
...205
Bilver
7,000,000
TT. Japan
T.T. India
unșaštai
.9531
.145
4 m/s. Francs
2.51
..146
6 m/s. do
.8.53
959 BarSilvar: ready
.26 13/16
.27 1/16
.50
199 Bank of England rate :
.5%
..$10.18
3,100
THE SUNSHINE GIRL,"
Dross Circle und Orchestra Stalls, $3.50; Stalls, $3.00; Pit," $2.00; Gallery, $1.00.
Doors open at 8.30, Commence at 9 Sharp. Booking at MOUTRIE & CO.
BIJOU.
PROGRAMME.
9.15
The Fire Two-Part Drama THE FISHER-GIRL OF VENICE Betrayed by A Kiss (Comic),
A Slight Mistake
NEWS IN PICTURES
Gaumont Graphic).
Gambier buyers. $7.30 by this prra, and be (tha (Pathe Gazette and
do (Cube No. 1) unpicked 13.00 chai, non) L3lieved that it would,
Copra Sundried
do Mire i
Pepper, Black
do White 5 percent.
buyers...
Sago Flout Sarawak
do Brunoi No. 1
Paarl Sago
Coffee Bali.
414.
Coffee Palembang 101 er
cent. In
Tapioca, small flako
do small pearl
do med, roar
Tin
Opium, China Straits
125 tons
Rice, Rangoon White
Rice, Siam No. 1
do No. 2
Petroleum.
Dovoe's Imp. Brilliant Oil,
(2 tins)
+
18.75 fetch later prexa than ordinary
Miss CECILE STEPHANO
12 60 plantation rubber, apart from the (a) "A Thousand Leagues undo 17.87 other minor adynulagos attendan!
on the more rapid prepiration 12 00 and shipment.
The unts 3.80
wero vaan my paced without noin. remarks, a final dividend of 15
4.80
par cant de dured naking 55 per 34.25 cent for the c) Me. W. M. Siers was el 16 the Board, 33.00 and Messrs. Denick and Co. were
0.50
again appointed auditora.
0.15
Armed Robbers Arrested. 108.50
The Burbgo" Handelsblad” 3,100 of the 10 iast learna from Ma- 1,800
enser that, à patrol under Lieut.. 220
A. A. v.n Nijattan surprised an 320
organiced gang of rolera in the 290 district of Eureking recently Thirty safen men wero Pirested including four le dera obo of 360 whom was in possession of the Sylvan Arrow Oil (2 tios) 323 Stor of Merit. The worst of the Fish Brand 2 tins in casat 3 15.
gang, a certain Lutarakka had to
·Oil 12 ting at 3.15 be slint down as he cffered armed Lamp Glass ( 2 tins in case at 3:15
resistauca. (superfine). 12 tine
at 3.05 Langkat's
2 tins in cars at 3:05 Dragon
2 ting Brand
at 2.95 Bulk Oil por drum of 4
galla
... at 2.55 Cross Oil: (2 tin) at 2.75 Tarpene por tia 4 gallons at 2.60 Proposed State Bank in India.
In a special article, the "Times" gives grounds for the establish dinary Yearly Meeting of the ment of a state bank in India. Company will be held at its Head considera that the circumstances Office No. 2, Queen's Buildings, which fifteen years ago wore Hongkong, on the
|Public Gompanies
CHINA TRADERS' INSUR- ANCE COMPANY LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Forty-Seventh Or-
וי
The Son"
(b) "My Eastern Dreamland" (A Song of Local Interest spacially writton for Miss Stephano).
7.15
Miss VIOLET BONETTA (n) Moonlight Bay " (b) "Hang out your Front Door Koy"
PICTURES ONLY
7.15
VICTORIA THEATRE.
TUESDAY, 8th
The Great Eclair Film,
The Iron Master, 3,000 ft. long.
Look out for the Great Picture, LES MISERABLES Which will be produced
in a Few Days... WATCH HAND BILLS.
Enormous Success of the FAMOUS ARTIST
Miss ARKAS, Songs in English, Russian, Portugusė:
& Italian, * The Charming Seri Da, er FRED ARDEA,
Notices
LESSONS IN CHINESE,
LI HON FAN,
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF BAN LING BUSI NESS tranÇİMİ.
CURKENT ACCOUNTS opsoni, on the sensi
terms.
ex per anoum, ut for shorter periods, ut ruses, which may be ascertained ou aplica COLLECTED.
KILLS NEGOTIATED
DEPOSITS RECEIVED, fund for one your at
MAIL and TELEGRAPHIC REMITTANCES LETTERS OF CREDIT and DRAFTS
on all the principal cities in the World, a
THE LANK'S CIRCULAR LETTEKS OF CREDIT KIM Knúiable all over the World.
DOMMERCIAL LETTERS, OF CREDIT,
fssued.
PURCHASE and BALE of Stocks and. Bharas Jected.
TRAVELLERS CHECKS sold and machad,
GEORGE HOG0,
Manager,
1917
9, Queen's Road, Hongkong.
·H⋅ ngkong, 1st. Nov., 1912
THE
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK,
LIMITED.
Established 1880. Authorised Capital Yen 48,000,000. Paid-up Capital ... 30,000,000 Roserve Fund......
,,18,200,000
J
Agencies at Nagasari
Newchwang
Head Office.-YOKOHAMA.
Branches Antung-Halen Bombay Calcutta Changchun Dairen Fongtien Harbin Hankow
Now York Osaka
Reserve Liability of
$32,200,000 | Demand. India
Demand, Manila
Proprietors...... ...$15,000,000 | T/T. San F'oo & New York
COURT OF DIRECTORS.T/T. Java
F. H. Armstrong. Feq-Chairman T/T. Marka Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross-Deputy T/T. Francs
Chairman.
8. H. Dodwell, Esq...
G. Friesland, Esq.
C. 8. Gubbay, Esq.
G. R. Laurenz, Esq.
F. Lieb, Esq.
W. L. Pattenden, Esq.
J. A. Plummer, E. Hon. Mr. E, Shellin, H. A. Siebs, Esq. CHIEF MANAGER: Hongkong—N. J. Stabb. MANAGER. Shanghai-A. G. Stephen. London Bankers-London County and Westminster Liraited.
Hongkong-Interest Allowed.
On Current Account at the rate of 2 per cent. per Annum on the daily balance.
..
...
Subsidiary Coins. Discount per $100
forward.....
Gold Leaf per taöl....
..2.46 | Sovereign
Chinese...20 cts. pieces...$799 Chinese...10
Malwa, Old
Patna, New... 3,330 perche.
4
Hongkong.20
1.
Hongkong.10
...$614 ...$712
Patna, Old............ 3,200
Opium Quotation.
Mar. 28.
Malwa, New.........$3,000 per pic,
Benares, New... 3,400
Benares, Old......... 3,250
SHARE REPORT.
ON FIXED DEPOSITS. For 3 months. 2 per cent per Hongkong & S'hai $125
LAST DIVIDEND AN U DATE.
£2/5/-ut ex 2/-3 equal to $21.71 foré voar ending 31/12/12
$18 for 1911
Interim of 10/- fr 1911 Final of $20 making 850' for 1909 and Interim of 630 for 1911
$12 for 1909 and Int. ofl $3 on account of 1910f
S-SE LLERS
SA-SALE
B-BUYERS
SLOCKS & PAID OF VALUR.
BANKS.
$810
CLORING LONE
93,
Annum.
Pekin
For 6 months, 33 per cent per
£81/40/-
Ryolun Port
Annum.
MARINE INSURANCE‹, Cantons
$50
$285 b:
(Arthur)
£5
T136 nominal
San Francisco
Shanghai
$100 $845
b.
Tiehling
Tientsin
£50 $200
b.
Tokyo
VIRE INSURANCES:
$20 $148
b.
$7 & b's of $2 for 1910
$50 $356 8.
$27, for 1912.
For 12 months, 4 per cent. per North China
Annum.
N. J. STABB. Chief Manager. Unions
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK Yangtzes
Los Angeles THE Business of the above, China Fires
Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI Hongkong Fires SHIPPING. BANKING CORPORATION. China & Manilas, $25 $9 plication.
Rules may be obtained on ap-Douglas Steamship 850 $3714 b.
$15 $2714 b.
Honolulu Kobo Liao-Yang London Lyons
Interest Allowed on Current. Account. periode at rates to be obtained on Deposits received for fixed
application.
EISHI ONO,
Manager. Hoogkouz, 31st Mar., "1913. 18 THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.
Incorporated by Royal
Charter 1853.,
HEAD OFFICE-LONDON. Paid-up Capital ......£1,200,000 Reserve Fund.........£1,650,000 Reserve Liability of
Proprietors..£1,200,000
FOREIGN · EXOHANGE and Goneral Banking business trans- acted,
|
INTEREST on deposits is al-
Steamboats
lowed on the minimum monthly | Indo-Chinas balances at $3 Per Cent. per an- (Preferred) num
(Deferred)
Depositors may transfer at their option balances of $100 or more to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to be placed on "FIXED DEPOSIT at 4 Per Cont. per
annum.
For the Hongkong and Shang- hai. Banking Corporation,
N.J. STABB, Chief Manager.
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£5 $99
117
£11
b.
b.
"Shell" Transporta £1
REFINERIES.
Star Ferry'
$10 $44
China SugarB $100 $10432 b. Luzon Sugars $100 $38 b. Chinese Engineerings £1 32/6
DEUTSCH ASIATISCHE Tronohs
Capital Fully
BANK.
Paid-up...8h. Taols 7,500,000 Head Office-Shanghai, Board of Directors--Berlin. Branches: Calcutta Canton
Kobe-
CURRENT ACCOUNTS open.... ed and FIXED DEPOSITS re- Berlin ceived for
application.
Invourable thereto have largely 10th April, 1913, at 12.15 p.11. for M graduate-vorard-in-lite-stare, of rates which will be quoted on Hamburg Hankow Hotsin disappeared. The first 'ep purpose, of receiving the report of has been a teacher to Europeia official would be consolidation of the the Directors, together, with the and merchants in this Colay for over three large Presidency banke, statement of account to 31st De → 7018. remain inadequately comber, 1912, and of declaring capitalized and which are in- Dividende, &c. 'capable of attaining the full de
which
Chiners teacher
MINING.
£1 76/- b. £1 $8.85 8.
Raubs DOCKS, WHARVES, & ODOWNS." Kowloon Wharfe H.K. & W'pon Docks $50 $68) b. Shanghai Docks T. 100 T.6214 Hongkow Wharfe T. 100 T.108) LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS
$50 $7616 6A.
b..
b.
$115 b.
b.
Anglo French Lande T.100 T.94
Tainanfu Tsingtau Yokohama,
Hongkong Hotels $50
[ $76 b. LONDON BANKERS: Messrs. N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Hongkong Lands $100 8107 [22 The Union of London and Smith's Humphreys Estates $10 $8.40. 88.
Bank, Limited.
Kowloon Lands $30 $33 bei Deutsche Bank (Berlin), London
Shanghai Landa T. 30 T. 89- Agency.
$50 657 Direction der Disconto Gesell-West Points
schaft.
Wm. DICKSON,
Manager, He-baa good mthod of training Hongkong, 11th April, 1912. aropeane to pass in the Chiasse ex- The transfer books of the Commination, and is poseened of a first pany will be closed from 6th April te certificate s velopment which would be posto the 16th April both days inclu-le bas also a good knowledge of sible if all parts of the country sivo. were open to them. They are debarred by Inw from raising money in the English market,
Mandariz and Hakka. By Order of the Board,
The who intend learning the Chin- ́C. MONTAGUE EDE,
se lungusgo are requested to Write cart Secretary Bontong Telegraph" office or but a central institution with a Hongkong, 1st April, 1913. [267reet to 87 Hollywood Road, 1st floor
·Hongkong: 24th Jan, 1911. - [147 UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. NOTICE TOSHAREHOLDERS.
substantial capital should obvi- ously bo allowed, under the super. vision of the India Office, and should have an agency in London-
THE
Notices CHINA-PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD. Loans on Mortgage of Bouse Pro- (Capital Paid up:..$1,250,000.)
party, &c. Goods received on Storage. Advances made on Merchandise:
to Iranɛnot ordinary business conOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN KELLY & WALSH, LTD, Loans made on the Provident
that the Fortieth Ordinary
accled with the maintenance of the gold standard. This would Yearly Meeting of the Society unquestionably have a most galu- will be held at its Head Office, No.
2, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, tary effect in escuring the con- on Wednesday, the 16th April, fidence of investors, and its ad- 1013, at Noon, for the purpose of equate capital would tend mater receiving the report of the Direc ially to reduce dicconat rates, tors together with the statement The bank would servo the same of account to 31st December, 1912, purpose in India as the Bank of and of declaring Dividende, &c. Bugland serves for other banks | The transfor booke of the So- in England as a feeder and ciety will be closed from 6th April to the 16th April both days supporter.
inclusivé.
By Order of the Board,
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 1st April, 1913.
1270
Rich Shell Cargoes. Gradually, but surely, the Port of London Authority is improving the accommodation at the docka for the rich cargoes which come to the Thames from the end of the world. The latest improvement THE HONGKONG, CANTON &
is
the opening of
entire
MACAO STEAMBOAT CO.,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
OTICE IS HEREBY GINEN that Scrip Certificate No.
CAMBRIDGE MANUALS,
80 cents cacfi. Brewing, A. Chaston Chapman. Tre Individual in the animal
Kindom, Jalisa 8, uxley.
The Psychology of Insanity,
Pernard Hart, The Work of Rain & Rivers,
T. G. Bonogy House Files & How they spread Disease, C. G. Hewitt.
The Origin of Earthquaes,
0. Davison. Early Religious Postry of the Hebrews, E G. King.
Brasses, J. S. M. Ward. The English Puritans, 'J» ag
Brown The Natural History of Coal,'- E. A. N. Arbet
NOTICE
floor of a buge warehouse at S Katharine Dook for the sale and dieplay of valuable shells. Here, six times a year, the parcels will
OTICE is hereby given that be opened, weighed, sorted, and 7542 issued 30th May 1910, for
an Extraordinary General slotted for the public sales. About twenty-five sharos number 39786
30790, 7439/7445, and 27026/27038, Meting of the Royal Hongkong: twenty-five to thirty tons tortoise of this Company in the name of Golf Club will be held at the Club shell reaches London yearly, the Gabrio Poullet Co'er has Been House at Happy Valley on best coming from the West Indies.lost, and should the same not be the 16th day of April at 5.30 It fetches an average of 25s, per oroduced before the 10th April o'clock in the afternoon for the poand, but an exhibition lot from 1913, Now Scrip Certificate will purpose of altering the Articles Fiji recently cold for as much as he issued to the said Gabriel of Association of the Club as per, $15 per pound. Generally speak Poutlet Osier, and no Transac- the Circuito on the board at ing, the articles tends to get soor ons taking place under the said and as exhibited cer and therefore dearer. For suporip Cortificato No. 7542 will be the Club House at Happy Valley. plies of mother-of-pearl numerous recognised by the Company. countries are drawn upon, and it
W. B. CLARKE,
Secretary. is sold at prices varying from 44ongkong 11th Match; 1918,
By Order, K. M. CUMMING;" Med Hon. Hécretary, Hongkong, 3rd April, 1913, rat
Bystem, System.
COTTON MILLS,
INTEREST allowed on Current Manila M'pole Hotel P.10 P. 8
·T. 50 T. 141
Account" ́· DEPOSITS received
on application. Every description Hongkong Cottons $10 $10 on terms which may be learned Ewos
of Banking and Exchange busi- ness transacted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
China-Borneos
.b..
$1 for 1906
5 p.c. for year end'g30'6'12.
Dividend of $1 for halft
year ending 31*12:12 }
(6 p.o. for year 1910 on
preferred shares
(1/- per share Coupon No
19
15 p.c. for year ending.
30.4.12
$3 for 1913
$3. for 1897
1/6 per shares final 19111
(Coupon No. 18) 911].
7/6 per share on 150,000 1/2 for 1809
$4.50 for year 1913 $1 final dividend for
year 1912
Tla. 3 for 1912.
for}
Interim of Tls.3, for 1912
Tis. 6 29'2'10
$3 on old shares, $1.50)
on new shares for half
year 31'12'12
Final div. of 69% making-
$7 for 1912
40 cents for 1912
$2,80 for 1912
5 p. o. for half to 30*6*12
Final of $2,25 making
$4,25 for 1918
15 per cent. for 1910
b.
T4for year ended 31'10'10)
T7for year ended 20'12 10
50 cents 31.7.08
85 cents for 1912
$12 $9 b. ex. div.
Do. (Spec. shares) $1 Į
(Rates and Particulars on ap- THE MERCANTILE BANK OF Green Islands
plication). AN
The Office of TRUSTEE, EXEQUTOR
WILLS, ATTORNEY, 20, Undertaken and Executed.
SHEWAM, TOMES & Co. General Managər, Hongkong, 19th March, 1908
THE FAMINE IN CHINA.
R. TIMMERSCHEIDT, Light and Powers $101 $3 B.
Manager. Hongkong, 9th Oct., 1911. 12 China Providents $10 $84 8. Dairy Farme #6 82512 b.
$10 84.20 Hongkong Electrics $10 $3114 INDIA, LIMITED. Authorised Capital ......£1,500,000 | Hongkong Ices $25 $175 Bubsoribed
1,125,000 Hongkong Ropes $10 $194
562,000 415,000
OF
4.
Pald Up Reserved Fund
HEAD OFFICE: 40, Threadneedle Street, London, E.C. BRANCHES:
MIRAND
32
Bombay. Kandy.
FIGHT Famine Dieisists with an
ares of 30,000 square miles. Calcutta. Galle. TWO and w half million peop! Howrah. Singapore.
Delhi Penang Labing stravation.
BUTION TO-DAY.
PLEASE SEND YOUR CONTRI-Madras, Kota Bahm, Kelantan. Karachi. Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S. Rangoon. Hongkong. Colombo. Shanghai.
IT WILL HELP TO SAVE LIFE. Trossarez, A, O. GULLAND, Eig Hanger, International Banking Co.,
onzo, Shanghali n Takak ar. 94th January 191987
GREEN ISLAND - CEMENT
COMPANY, LIMITED,
PORTLAND, CEMENT
In Casks of 375 lbs, net.: In Bags of 250 lbs. net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO,
· Generál Managerun
Hongkong, 16th August, 1901 19
If you Lappen to be late your meals will be Courteously & Promptly Served just the Same. Only at The ALEX. ANDRA CAFE.
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AGENTS IN JAPAN: Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd: BANKERS:
Langkats
8. 10. T.64
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Morning Post 825 622 Peak Tramway
b.
b.
$10 $11 b,
$1 31 b.
Do. (new) Hongkong Electric Trams|0/1014 Philippines
$10 85 H. Price & Co., Ld. 810 86
Pre Societe des | forred.
Pulpeset
850 $30 Papierteries paid du Tonkin up $59
Benefit $150 Shanghai-Sumatras T. 20 T.150. London Joint Stook Bank, Ltd, Steam Laundry. 85 $4
Bank of England.
United Asbestos)
$10 $300
EVERY description of Banking Oriental Agency, 810 8912 b.
and Exchange business.d........ transacted. Stocks and Shares ited Asbestos? bought and sold on account of Founders, Shares Constituents. Letters of Credit granted or Agents and Corres Union Waterboat pondents all over the world. A
counts at 2. per cent per anntim Watson on Dally Balance and on Fixed william Powell Deposita at rates which may be ascertained on application,
Interest allowed on Current Ao-Welemann, Ltd.
$10 8171%
$10818 $1086,75
70.cents for 1912
$1.25 for year end'g 31'7'12
40 cents for 1911
61.40 per share
Final of 38 for 1912
by
$1 interim account 1912
на.
Tis, 444 for 1912
None
80 cents on fully paid)
shares and 8 cents on $1 paidshares for year ending 30°4′12
None
None
$1.50 for 1910
None
No dividend this year 50 cts, for year end'g 30′5'1
(20 per cent, per ordinary
share for year ended. 81'5:1912
$1 per share for yearl
ending 31′12 1912
25 per cent for year
ending 317 11
30 cents for 1910.
40 cts, yearending 80°613
Caracted to 18.10 p.m. Aptli y 1971 → WRIGHT AND HORNBY,
WANT. OFMACDONALD, GRoncal Benkonur 4 De Vores Stand Greent)
* Manager,
#750 Idermoli" dont trok bold"tradé, ramonaškio tor any of the above quote sien a
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