Straits Echo, 28 November 1913

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  • 35 1 Straits Echo DAILY CHRONICLE OF EVENTS, CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, Thfi FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR EAST GENERALLY VOL. 11. $24 Per Annum. PENANG, FRIDAY, 28th NOVEMBER, 1913. Single Copy, 10 cents. No. 274
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  • 608 3 Proffitor T. L. Bullock, M A., delivered a Kon d lecture on Chinese history at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, on 4th pf the period dealt with being what he f d modern China, or the period »xtendfrom the year 1368 to 184-2. There
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  • 498 3 the Empire Review, Mr. B. Elliston makes a plea for more men-of-war on the China Squadron, which, Le regards as inadequate for the purposes or w lc b exists. After enumerating the various ships with details as to their tonnage, Ac he says:— “In times even of
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  • 414 3 According to the annual report of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 10,466 merchant vessels, registering over 22,172,000 tons gross, held classes assigned by the Committee at the close of the year ended June 30 last. During the year the Committee assigned classes to 651 new vessels. Their registered
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  • 68 3 This for the eye of Mr. O. V. Thomas A Walthamstow labourer named Prickett, who was charged at Stratford with drunkenness. was stated by the police to have been very violent when arrested. Prickett: How con Id 1 be violent if I was drunk A Constable You tried to kick
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  • 364 3 Says the Indian Daily News We see that Dr. Welldon, ex-Bishop of Calcutta. has been again developing his theory of the relation of the Government of India to its subjects. “It was an absolutely mistaken idea to think it right to leave the people of the East
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  • 414 3 According to tbo gossip of Egypt, Lord Kitchener is to come to India. We do not know —but hope that is so, because he is endowed with a large amount of tact bes des being an Englishman, which is a considerable qualification, after all. Town Topics has, we
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  • 405 3 One of the Chinese gentlemen interviewed in Shanghai mentioned the interesting fact that in the Chinese language there is no word signifying a Parliamentary Opposition as the term is understood in other countries When you put it into Chinese it signifies enemy right away.” It will be agreed
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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    • 49 3 Accidents Will Happen. It may bn impossible to prevent an accident, but it is not. impossible to be prepared for it. Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is not beyond anyone's purse, aud with a bottle of this liniment you are prepared for most anything. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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  • SHIPPING.
    • 105 4 Kashima Maru, Jap- ss., 6,546, lag*. Not. 27, Yokohama, Nov. 5, Gen. —B. Co. Pin Seng, Br. b.b., 378, Welch, Nov. 27, Singapore, Nov- 25, Gen- —E. 8- Co-, LtdJin Ho, Br. 8.*., 93, Dyasou, Nov. 27, AiahaD, Nov. 26, Gen. —E. 8- Co., Ltd Rotorua, Br. b-»., 556,
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    • 42 4 November 28. Kashima Maru, for Colombo and Tuticorin. Tong Hong, for RangoonPin Seng, for Port Swettenham and Singapore. Hong Bee, for Singapore, Hongkong, Swatow and Amoy. Jin Ho, for Asahan. Hebe, for Teluk Anson. Flying Dragon, for Port Weld and Taiping.
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    • 353 4 For A lor Star t Kedah) —Per Ban Lee, to morrow, 8 a.m. Calcutta—Per Thongwa, to-morrow, 11 am. Rangoon, Calcutta and Durban— Per Eilora, to-morrow, 1 pm. Port Swettenham and Singapore —Per Lama, to morrow, 3-15 p m. Ceylon, Australasia, India. Aden, Mauritius, Egypt and via Brindisi, for
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  • 120 4 Penang, November 28. (By courtety of the Chartered Bank.) London, Demand Bank 2 4^ 4 months' sight Bank 2/4J-J 3 Credit 2/4§ 3 Documentary 2/4! Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs 173 J 3 days'sight Private 175 j Bombay, Demand Bank 173* Moulmein, Demand Bank 173 3 days’sight Private 175* Madras,
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  • 205 4 Gold Leaf ...564.40 Black Pepper 15 75 buyers White Pepper 27.49 buyers Trang Pepper 24.— nominal Cloves ...39 out of season Mace 120 nominal Pickings 75.— sales Nutmegs 110 s. 24. sellers C No. 1 6.10 sales Sugar < 2 5.50 sales Basket 5.15 buyers Copra (mixed) 12 80
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  • 184 4 Penano, November 28. Beef cts. Soup per catty 14 Roast 24 Steaks 24 Stew or Curry Meat 16 Rump Steak 24 Ox Tail each 30 Tongue 55 Feet 15 Heart 30 Liver per catty 55 Pork— Pork per catty 38 Pig’s Head 24 Feet h 28 Tongue 40
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  • 1733 4 g fa o fa 1909 1905 1910 194 19(40 1910 1910 lyio 1910 1910 1904 1909 1910 Capital. Number of Shares issued. 8 450,000 200,000 1 750,000 1 800,000 its 1.200,000 5 500,004) 1,000,000 390,000 600,000 205,000 100,000 200,000 280,000 130,000 75,600 70,000 300,000 24,000 500,000 500,000 390,' 00
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    • 70 4 From the Western Plains and the rolling downs, Frjm the shearing «beds an 1 the wav 1 act tOWD, From stations and fields in the far back blocks, Where wander for ever the fleecy flock»: From camps in the bush where the fires glow bright. While the teamsters sit spinning
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  • 988 5 Old Farquhars vs. Post Office. The Old Farquhars played their League fixture against the Post Office at Victoria Green yesterday afternoon and beat their opponents by four goals to two. The Old farquhars, it must be mentioned, had not a little difficulty in raising a team and deserved
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  • 632 5 Err*cT on Crude Rubber Pricks, g The heavy decline in the price of fine bard Para and plantation rubbers has atr tracted public attention to the enormous 1 extent of the trade in waste and reclaimed t rubbers. During the boom it was left almost entirely
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  • 390 5 There are a good many shooting competitions in existence in the Colony and the conditions of some of them are not as well-known as they might be, but Major Adams fell into a very curious error at the prize distribution of the PenaDg A olunteers when he referred
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    • 308 5 V! jSi, Jf-Jt. t «1 T' *fcsUS -£T fy- \\^S> ySB nj o > 0 <Q m 4h -hr T 14». vWi""" w to PYX <r v. C NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Chung Hong Soon of 335, Beacli Street, I enang, Chinese Liquor Merchants, are the sole proprietors of
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  • 94 6 PlMiabftd daily (except Sundays and pwbli* holidays) AT Til CRITERION PRESS, Ltd. No. 59, Beach Street, Penang. Pmiom Daily Lead »S 4 per annua OnWUtion... Postage Extra. Mnil Edition (Post Fine) «17.50 CAB LB ADDBBSS ECHO—PENANG.” Telephone Not. Echo 986 Printing Depnrtneat 343 JT.J.-AU kniMM «•aauniMtioa* ahould
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  • 2059 6 Monday’s leading article was derot»d to a short and elementary exposition of some of the fundamental economic truths underlying the relations of Labour and Capital in this, as in every other, country. In another column of that same issue was reproduced an editorial from the Malay Mail
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  • 58 6 Representatives of cluh« t.i th. League Competition of P r io reminded that the th Jear are against a player of proteBt a fixture (S.X°R C his registration had been in th u 01 6 th© Hon. Secretarr f Deen 10 *he hands of Rule 10). 7
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  • 767 6 Mr. Alma Baker expects to leave Home for the F.M S on 16th December.— MM, Mr. J. McLaren, of the United Engineers Ltd., Ipoh, returned from leave at Home yesterday by the P. O s s. Delta. m Mr. J. S. Ferguson, General Manager of the Sungkai-Chumor
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  • 39 6 (From Our Own Correspondent Singapore, November 27. the during th erection of the yard of f 'T 801 bloc one P^in^‘n he rsons ne of tbem T r^:,; d ,njurme A third death thTSStaJ'.
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    • 116 6 Christmas and New Year Cards A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Messrs. Raphael Tuck#Son’s Production Should be seen to be appreciated. Prices from 5 cents each upwards. INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED. The Federal Rubber Stamp Co., 41, BISHOP STREET, (Opposite Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidluw it Co.’s Furnishing Department,) PENANC. (Our advertisement appears daily in
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  • 744 7 VARYING radical views. Reuter.) London, November 27. I'l,r Daily Sr’tce says that Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India, in his speech at Madras, ireaks with remarkable severity but as the problem of the Indians in South Africa has been seriously mishandled it is both neces,arr and satisfactory that
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  • 88 7 A Withdrawal. (Reuter.) London, November 27. The American Press has been CI^ 1C IB ing the oil concessions in Colombia o ain *1 bv Lord Murray for Messrs. 1 ear "ons. Ltd, as likely to lead to Anglo-Ameri-can friction. Messrs. Pearsons. Ltd, in a letter to
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  • 236 7 THE PREMIER AT LEEDS. (Reuter.) u. n T» London, November 28. ana as no ground for a general election. They J going to be frightened or arrested bj menaces of civil war; such threat, coupled with Lord Lansdowne’s hints on the effect L- U l d
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  • 75 7 (Reuter.) London, November 27. Lord Haldane, who presided at a dinner at the Savoy Hotel in honour of the members of Parliament of the Empire, said that he hoped bis overseas colleagues would visit the motherland oftener. “We have much to learn as to what is
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  • 69 7 Inauguration Banquet. (Reuter.) London, November 27. At the iuaugural banquet of the Imperial Council of Commerce, Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, welcomed the creation of the Council as a real link of the Empire and a clearing house of commercial information. He
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  • 52 7 Meeting at Leeds. (Reuter.) London, November 27. The conference of the National Liberal Federation at Leeds was chiefly remarkable for the feeling against the proposed increase in the Navy Estimates. Mr. Percy Illingworth, the Chief Liberal Whip, announced that a General Election would not take place
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  • 48 7 (Reuter.) Moarmelon, November 27. The remains of a biplane and two charred corpses were found in a desolate spot on the borders of the departments of Aube and Marne. The buttons and a pair of shoes are the solo indications that the victims were officers.
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  • 35 7 (Reuter.) London, November 27. The Hon. Mr. Arthur Lyulph Stanley, Liberal M. P. for the Eddisbury Division of Cheshire from 1906-10, will succeed Sir John M. Fuller as Governor of Victoria.
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  • 57 7 (Reuter London, November 27. The new Espionage Bill which was introduced into the Reichstag yesterday pena.ises the publication of military secrets in the Press The Ministers Herr halkenhayn and Admiral von Tirpitz made speeches m which they dwelt on the spread of espionage of late years and
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  • 34 7 (Reuter.) Graham’s Town, November 2,. The M.C.C. team, which is touriDg m South Africa, defeated a fifteen of Graham s Town anil the college, by an mn.ng, an l 33 runs.
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  • 21 7 (Reuter.) Washington, November The Armv estimates for the year total ,106 000,000, which is the largest on record.
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  • 17 7 (Reuter.) London, November Lady Islington launched the battleship Emperor of India at Barrow.
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  • 1300 7 A number of interesting points were touched on at the meeting of the Federal Council on Wednesday. We make a few extracts from the excellent report published by our Kuala Lumpur contemporary No Ahsorpttoa- p The Hon. Mr. Skinner said he should like to call attention to
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  • 405 7 Mr. P. K. C. Tvau, First Secretary of the Chinese Legation in London, delivered a lecture on November 6at a meeting of the China Society at the Caxton Hall on the subject of" The Western-educated Chinese Student.’* The Chinese Minister had been announced to preside at
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  • 268 7 The OiitM on of the Surtax. A corr. spoudent, writing to a* London *jjaper, Voices sentiments which are enterI taioed throughout the-East: Auglo Indians will have read with pleasure that the differences between the P. and O f Company and their offloers have been adjusted
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  • 1073 7 Yuan Shih-kai, President-Dictator of China, has purged his Parliament. By a mandate as frankly autocratic as any Decree ever issued by the Vermilion Pencil, he has abolished the Kuo Ming Tang as a political institution anti expelled all its members from both Houses of Parliament,
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  • 307 7 Interesting News or Sir Hugh Clifford. A Ceylon friend of H. E. Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Gold Coast, writes to a Colombo contemporary from London Under separate cover I send you Sir Hug’ll Clifford's first Message to his new Legislative Council,
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  • 188 7 Yesterday. To-day. Ri»e or Buyers Sellers Buyers Sellers Fall. RUBBER. A 4. A. d A angle Malay 9 9 10 714 9 6 10 3 —3d ex div. B.ikit Mertajam. 110 2 3 1 9 2 3 —ld Oljersonese ..23 28 21 26 —2d Cons. Malays ..8 6 9
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  • 94 7 Tin, Rubber and Copra. The following bus ness in tin has been done to-day Penang Penang Tin Exchange, tons at $9O 05 Leong Fee A Co., 25 §9‘.6 > Straits Trading Co., 59 §90.65 Eastern Smelting Co 100 ?90 65 Singapore: Straits Trading Co., 325 590.65 Total 512.
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  • 130 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages Page 3 —An Oxford Professor on Chinese History. The China Squadron. The World’s Shipping Lord Kitchener. Chinese Politics. 5. League Football: Old Farqu- bars vs Post Office. Waste and Reclaimed Rubber. Penang Volunteers. 8. Round The Golf Links. The
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    • 36 7 THE GT3EAT EASTERN LIFE ASSURANCE CO. p LTD. llKii) Ornca: SINGAPORE. Life Assurance and Endowment in All f crras. LIBERAL POLICIES. LOW RATES Financial Agent a for Penang. SELLAR, MURRAY CO. Cj.c* Jio. 7, Uhiok Sxkbjci,
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  • 997 8 THE FOUR-BALL FOURSOME GAME. How IT MAT BE Enjoyed. By Mark Allerton. The golf correspondent of the Times gave us the other day some interesting information regarding the popularity of a four-ball foursome in the United States. There is a kind of golfing festival at a
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  • 346 8 to THE editor or the Malay Mail. Sir, Will the Postal and Telegraphic Dept, ever learn to study the convenience of tbe public to even a slight degree To quote only one instauce out of many, of the ways in which the service is managed, or
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  • 403 8 The members of the Penang Ladies*’ Rifle Club met at the Range this morning and fired off some of the events connected with their Annual “At Home.” The weather conditions were good but not perfect and as a result of the good weather there was some
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  • 1211 8 PLANTATION AND PARA. 9 TO THK SUITOR OF THE P. M. G. 0 Sib, —So very much has been said and e written about rubber and the heavy drop in r price that one hesitates to add to the collecB tion of views. But so much has
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  • 41 8 Be careful of the e >M« you take at this time of the vear. They are particularly dangerous. A neglected cold may mean a win-ter-long cold. Take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy at once. For sale by all Dispensaries and Dealers.
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  • 120 8 To-pat. Ist Day of 11th Moon. Baud, Esplanade, 6 to 7 p m. St Andrew’s Bull Town Hall. Rugby Match Scotland” v. The Rest Esplanade. The Grand Opera Co King Street Theatre, Cheloring Chelorong.” Penang Volunteers Cadets, St. Xavier’s School, Company Drill St. Xavier’s School, 4 p.m. Maxim Section,
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 356 8 10-30 P.M. 10-30 P.M. Mile. LYGIE, Queen of Light, from the “Winter Carden", Berlin, will perform her famous “Silver Dance” with quite new and powerful light effects never jet seen in Penang. Only for a Few Days AT Drury Lane Cinematograph, Drury Lane Theatre Hall, in conjunction with new and
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    • 237 8 f Grand Opera Co. King Street Theatre. I To-night! To-night!! THE COMPANY WILL STAGE That Most Famous Play, CHELORING CHELORONG.” New Actress New Clown Our clown., Md Emoff, Thambj Keehiind Hamid, will make you Split your sides with Laughter. Come Early Come Early Fine or wet, do not fail to
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    • 523 8 IN THE GOODS OP JOSEPH SMITH. Deceased. Notice is hereby given that *n creditors and other persons having any claims or demands against the estate of Joseph Smith, late of Bishop Street, Penang deceased, who died od the 25th day 0 f December, 1912, Letters of Administration to whose estate
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  • 27 9 VeiteU From Agentt Dn• Deva nha Singapore Prim Eitel *tFriedrich Singapore Buelow Colombo Himalaya Colombo A-CKACo. B.M.AJo. BM.ACo. A.G.ACo. 29th Not. 2nd Dec. 4th 10th
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  • 24 9 Vette.lt For Jgt nt i Leaves Not. hnanha Colombo A-O.^Co. Print Eiteh Fritdrich 'Colombo B.MACo. Doc. fiuelow Himalaya Singapore Singapore B.M ACo. A.G.AO0.
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    • 289 9 At Arrivals and Departures. Mall Service Outward. 1913 Dec lOHimalaraconnecting witbs.s.Mooltai 24 Egypt i. s.s. Mores Homeward ion via Colombo. FAKES BY MAIL STE4MERS. A Accommodation. Istcla8s 2ndclass To London by Sea 1565-72 4377*14 To Marseilles or Gibraltar 4528-00 $356-29 “B” Accommodation. To London by Sea $518-57 $339-43 To Marseilles
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    • 1346 9 {SHIPPING.) BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Fou Singapore (I nree times a week). Port Swettenham and Singapore. (Twice a week). Victoria p oiit7Mĕ rK ui f Tavoy, Yeh and Moulmein. (Fortnightly). Singapore and Australia. Rangoon A Calcutta. (Weekly.) Negapatam, Madras, Pondicheny, Cuddalore and Karikal. (Weekly). Terms and Rates of
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  • 1000 10 There are no many cross-currents in present-day affairs in China that it is Almost impossible to know exactly what is the main trend of things, and we have th n-fore placed a question at the bead of this article to indicate that we do not wish to
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  • 1340 10 We are grateful to our contemporaries I throughout the Malay Peuinsula for the exI treme kindness of their references to our- selves in connection with the libel action I Dennys v. Straits Times, recently tried at I Ipoh. The perfect consensus of opinion that I
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  • 221 10 i Sir Ponald Ross’s statement in his great book, “In India alone malaria has been officially estimated to kill every year on the average 1,130,000 persons,” brings home to everyone the appalling danger of the disease, but to no one does it appeal with greater force
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