The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 17 April 1900
1900-04-17
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The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942)
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Title Section18 1900-04-17 1 THE Singapore Free Press AND MERCANTILE ADVERTISER. THIRD SERIES. SINGAPORE. TUESDAY, ijth APRIL,/ 1900 DAILY ISSUE, No. 38:18 words
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Page 1 Advertisements
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Advertisement812 1900-04-17 1 K^ O Office. Collyer Quay. £g Wharves. New Harbour O STEAM NAVIGATION Co Steamers for CHINA, JAPAN, PENANG, CEYLON, INDIA, AUSTRALIA, ADEN, FGYPT, MARSEILLES, GIBRALTAR. MALTA. BRINDISI, VENICE, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. Through Bills of Lading issued for Persian Gulf, Continental and American Ports, also for China Coast, and Smn Francisco812 words
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Advertisement686 1900-04-17 1 fHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. THK following are the dates on which the Co.'s Steamers may be expected here, viz OUTWARD. HOMEWARD. For Hongkong. Shanu- Fur Marsbji.lesakd hai Japan Ports. London. 1900. 1900 Ch:n< Wo Apl. i< Yangtsxe May at. Ping Sue> May 24. Cbiog Wo June 15. Through686 words
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Advertisement1122 1900-04-17 1 DE KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. Under Contract with the Nbthkrlands India Government. Agents at Singapore. Ships Agency, late I. DAENDELS Co., 2-3 Collyer Quay The undermentioned dates are only apiroximai c. From Expected Will be despatched tor t- J Batavia April 16 Batavia, Cheribon, Samarang Ac Sourabaia A"r l 10 Brouwer1,122 words
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Advertisement730 1900-04-17 1 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. PAID-UP CAPITAL Hooooooo RESERVE FUND 111 oo'ooo RESERVE LIABILITY OP 5»,ooo PROPRIETORS I —1 1 0,000,000 Court or UIEECTOBS. N. A Sibbs, Esq.— Chairman. R. Shbwan, Esq.— D«pt-TY Chairman. R. M. G.Ar, Esq. H. W. g. im Esq. K. Gobtz, Esq. J D. \I. M730 words
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Advertisement479 1900-04-17 1 PETER SYS' WONI THK only remedy at piesent Wno*n as an I> Sprue, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, RECOMMENDED cr SOME or the CHH^SP Sold Retail l.y all Chen THE PETER S (Proiribtors tun Solb Manui^.tiri Nov 16 ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY FIRE LIFE Total Invkstpd Krvns Kic.ee-> /uoxinoo THE LARGEST FIRR OFHCK IN479 words
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Advertisement413 1900-04-17 1 3ERFUL SPECIFIC. IPALUMJ and PKKM ANKN f CdRE for Hemorrhage and Ulc.eration 3owels. YS COMPANY irs), K><X»Cani« Simwr, 17.11 PACIFIC MAtLSTBAMSHIf COMPANY O c cidp:nt/vl and oki;- tal STEAMSHIP COMPANY. AND *J»OYO RISEN KAISHA o°^'* f o.) rhronph pa*ajre Uckrts K rai,trd t,. F. ll<Lui IranLc, and Germany by all413 words
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Article, Illustration2493 1900-04-17 2 The Singapore Free Press. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1900. ttl r»«. t■rl <• r »»1 bf influcnc* **4 ui.br. -*ri by gt.u H*n patriot Truth her 9" P to R«Ji«u>n. Lnaltv. tmt POSTERITY m Singapore will i<>ok back to ihc l6tk April, am MOflt auspicious ol all Easter Mondn-. for it2,493 words
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Article38 1900-04-17 2 AT BLOEMFONTEIN. The Arrival of Remounts. Horses Still Suffer from the Journey Horses continue to arri\< -t tein m great number* but m low rnadilim' and requiring nursing The mortality among the anima,. a g rCd38 words
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Article49 1900-04-17 2 Garrison Signals 'All Well. The losses at Wepener .1, telegraphr.l i> billed and i werr those anterior to tbc i41.i1 The los>e^ HM th*-n are unkr; The garrison signalled on >>at .r all was well. Reuters previou> telegram ttu: had retired northward, is not confirmed49 words
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Article34 1900-04-17 2 IN THE FREE STATE. Alleged to be Retreating. Thoroughly Disheartentd. There are persistent report! ti.at the Boers to the ••cmth-east of the free are retiring to the northwar ammunition and thoroughly dbl34 words
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Article38 1900-04-17 2 His Direct Influence a Necessity No* It is stated that President Kruger la-. been to Brandfon and visaing th recently. The continual exertion of liis per-or.* influence appears to have becom. a significant necessity. Later.,38 words
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Article53 1900-04-17 2 A RHODESIAN OFFICER ENTERS MAFEKING. He Rejoins Plumers Force All Well m Mafekmg. Lieul. Smithenan, of the Rhodesian Regiment, has reached Mafelcing through the Boer lines and r> turned to Colonel Plumer Camp on March Bth All was well m the bdeaguere-i town 01. April sth. London,53 words
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Article393 1900-04-17 2 The Aim Afaru, the fine new O.joo ton steamer of the Nippon Yusen kaisha. arriveJ here from Europe this morning under the command of Capt. Trennt. Passengers by her included Mr. W. E. Hooper, Registrar of Hackney Carriages. Mr*. H. C Beltield and Miss Rathborne, (who are being met here393 words
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Page 2 Advertisements
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Advertisement745 1900-04-17 2 The Robinson Piano Co. LIMITED. JUSTt UNPACKED 6 EXQUISITE PIANOS, BY HAAKE, HANOVER. Expressly Made for Singapore and the Straits. Fully Guaranteed. Price $380. $400. and $460, WILL BE SOLI) ON EASY PAYMENTS. By the Mail —A large assortment of Continental Piano Music 60 cents per copy. Apl 17 TOLET.745 words
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Advertisement273 1900-04-17 2 John Little cS^ CO LTD. OUTDOOR GAMES. Badminton Lawn Bowls Croquet For 4 and 8 Players. Cricketing Goods. Ciick« t BatCrick* lU^ Crick.t Nhit, I. Balls Cricket Practice Ball* Balling Gloves Wicket Keeping Uaunlltls Cricket Stump* Leg C— j4i. Golf Clubs A Large Selection of Specially Selected Golf Clubs from273 words
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Advertisement1043 1900-04-17 2 WANTED AN experienced Miner and Pros-pit tui for a partly developed jfcWfi pro pern-. Appl) stating past experience to PROSPEC TOK, v 0 Fret Pmu Office. Mar 15 v.c. I 117 ANTED far BanMa, Competent Draughts- i man, with some knowledge of Surveying and able lo compute Surveys by Gale's1,043 words
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Advertisement484 1900-04-17 2 TO-DAYS ADVERTISEMENTS. WANTED A Ciiines* 1,1 bura&ian I-iti er possessing some knowledge iX lathe work. Apply •he Ma>amr, Aerated Watui Department, Fraser and Niave, Limited. Apl 17 o .4 r ANIF.D, .^rd May, by a gentleman, high class boaid and lodging willi Kuropean fami!}. A| ply A. H. t a484 words
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Advertisement20 1900-04-17 2 Mr. Tli. Sohst takes the plate of Mr Max Fultfarcken on the local board oi the Commercial L'nion Assurance Co.20 words
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Page 2 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous197 1900-04-17 2 The Week. Tuesday, 17th i High Water 11.52 a., 1 1. 3y p. Kaster Tue<da>. Election Henang Member ol < ouncil. legislative Council, 2-30 p. 5.V. V Maxim Gun Drill 3.1s p. Wednesday, i3th Hijjh Water —0.25 p. >nntfipori lb <pcCia, M« jp. S.VX 2.S n. K. M. 1., s.ljp.197 words
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Article114 1900-04-17 3 I Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel left Sandakan m H. M. S. Linnet last week 'or Singapore, and will arrive here m time to leave for England by the homeward bound P. O. mai! steamer Afassilia on Friday. The Admirals stay here will be quite114 words
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Article473 1900-04-17 3 THE SINGAPORE-KRANJI RAILWAY. CITTIMG THB FIRST SOD Thb AITBR Cbrbmon> A friend asks us to publish the followMig:— The ceremony of cutting the first sod of the Singapore-Kranji Railway yesterday was not quite the funeral function described m some quarters. His Honour the Officer Administering the Government invited the officials473 words
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Article132 1900-04-17 3 LITTLE GIRL'S ESSAY ON THE WAR :t,e girl (A my acquaintance says a wr.ter m 1 home paper was asked the other day to write a fieroe on the war. She produced the following, ard not a bad ep tome either up to the lime Ro- rt-> and Kitchener took132 words
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Article210 1900-04-17 3 ihe reply o! Germany to the C\e*MH is the Hamburg-American In cr L/eutschlanJ built and erg ned by the Vulcan Company, Stettin, launched M January 10, m the presence of the German K-nperor. The O tame is the largest ship m the world, but she is not intended210 words
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Article170 1900-04-17 3 \bout a fortnight ago, a Kling tamby weal to Manasseh Co.'s store at No. 6 Malacca-^t and presented a chop from Hoar*. Helm Meyer (Jo. for merchandise, amounting m all to!|6js. The goods were delivered and on the 10th of April the bill for them was sent170 words
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Article69 1900-04-17 3 A contemporary tells the following story A huined waiter ran yesterday across i'lccadillyurcus, and halted to contemplate the newspaper "<nteiiK bills. "French at Kimberley, was the legend. "Oh'la la We arrive '"he exclaimed. /.e*e Engh -.h are again m boil water'" And he *ei>t b*tk to hit,69 words
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Article245 1900-04-17 3 S. C. C. 9. Nbxt XVI. The above match played on the Esplanade yesterday resulted m a win for the Majority by 35 I— F° r 'he winners Hardinge contributed a useful 32 and for the S.C.C. Reid played well for 27 run*. Scores Nbxt XVI. J. H. C.245 words
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275 1900-04-17 3 Early on April 6th says the China Mail, a servant at Connaught House, Hongkong, made tl>e sho< king discovery that Mr. Studholm Brownrigg Terry, tivil engineer, who had been living m Connaught Mousesince the end of January last as a boaider, was275 words
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Article307 1900-04-17 3 1 he coarse proper was again closed this morning and the work done on the inside track was mostly slow and uninteresting, and hardly worth detailing. H. H. the Sultan's horses were the only ones given a stretch. They are all nke and big. and can probably -land307 words
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Article108 1900-04-17 3 An Alarmist Priuk tiow. M. \jtxkroy, an ex-French Minister of Marine, m an interview which has appeared m the Patrit, expressed the opinion that within the next two years war would certainly breakout between France and MngUnd. It therefore behoved France to place her Navy m a108 words
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Article152 1900-04-17 3 The Hongkong l airgraph says -Rumours, report?, ■.tuicments, canards follow each other almost daily as regards the probability of war between |apau and Russia. I tie Vorodm < f the 14th «nst. had the following "An alarming report, which is said to have emanated from a naval152 words
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Article47 1900-04-17 3 Ths P. and O. Tientsin left Moji yesterday and is expected to arrive here on Friday the J7th instan'. The cholera seascn m Bangkok seems to be claiming rather more than its average of Europeans, three more cases, besides the fatal one of Mrs. Bethge, being reported.47 words
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Article104 1900-04-17 3 i A team of cricketers captained by Mr. A. G. Wright went up to Malacca for the Easter holidays and had a most enjoyable I trip, Malacca sustaining its ancient reputa- lion for hospitality. The visitors were rather too strong for the home team, scoring on Saturday104 words
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Article394 1900-04-17 3 The second ordinary general meeting of the company was held at Gresham House, to-day, at noon. There were present Messrs. Maclaren, J. G. Mactaggart, A. Cumming, W. Bucha--1 nan Smith, F. \V. Barker, and others and G. A. Derrick, Secretary. I he directors report has394 words
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Article100 1900-04-17 3 Tlie China Gazette s correspondent at Peking wires on April 2 that great alarm has been caused at iVking by the receipt of a \< legram from l.i Hung-Chang, Viceroy at Canton, stating that he had It-arnt that Kang Yu-wei, the leader of the Reformers, while m Hongkong100 words
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Article160 1900-04-17 3 At one of the Churcli Parade services m Rangoon on Sunday, the 25th March, the Dead March m Saul w*- played on the organ the closr. m memory of Sir W. Lotkhart, the late commander-in-chief of the forces m India. When the music teased, the congregation160 words
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Article304 1900-04-17 3 A correspondent of the Hongkong /Jany Fret* who has recently visited North Horneo spc»Us very hopefu'ly of the prospects of the new poit of Jesselton, situated m Gaya Hay on the west coast o' North Borneo. It will be remembered that it is to be304 words
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Article136 1900-04-17 3 Lucky Hongkong The strawberry is now an article of cultivation there. The China Mail *ays (and it will make Singapore's lips to water to read it) The desire of residents m the Colony for some »t the choice fruits of the homelands has induced some of the enterprising gardeners of136 words
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Article501 1900-04-17 3 No les9 than five bodies, including Chinese paupers and male and female Chinese children, have been found m the streets by the police during the holidays. A Chinaman was yesterday discovered hanging from a tree m Tanjong Pagar-rd. The Municipal cases heard yesterday numbered a hundred and seventy,501 words
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Article154 1900-04-17 3 The annual report to Dec ,ist. contain-. i th< foil' w.ng paragraphs Ihe Net Piofus f .r that period, alter provid.rg for bad and doubtful debts, and lor.luding £1 1 ,SS* 1 /■>. Bd. brought forward from last Account, t am unl to /,42,;iy 7s. Ltd. Out154 words
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Article382 1900-04-17 3 Singdpuri, April fj 1 B«aii;>, l-ong per catly ct. 4 Do., Fienth do. 16 I Beef do. Beef Steak do. Bean Sprouts do. l| U inilxx) Sprout-. <io. I Blachan d<». 14 1 Brinish do. 3 Cabbage, Balavia do. Nil Do., hm.j do. n 1 S.ilt.H do.382 words
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Page 3 Advertisements
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Advertisement225 1900-04-17 3 Many Lives Saved. In almost every neighborhood there is some one whose life has been saved by Chamberlain's olic, Cnolera and Diarrhoea Remedy, or who has been cured of chronic diarrhoea by the use of that medicine. Such persons make a point of telling it whenever opportunity offers, hoping that225 words
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Advertisement268 1900-04-17 3 UCKAN STKAM SHIP COMPANY NKOBRLANO CXX sr K>MVAART MAA.T. w\t>Plj OCBA4M The Coajpany'i sicamcrs are despatch- d from Liverpool ouiwjtds for il Straits, China, and fipan, and from japan homewards for London every ten days. The Company's steamers on the J.v.a Line aie despatched Iroin AoHl yd im and Livorpool268 words
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Page 3 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous837 1900-04-17 3 A FLASH CHEQUE A paragraph in the Chard and Ilminster News runs thus I have heard of money being paid by means of the Ulegraph and telephone, but I never remembtr to have heard of its being transmitted through the air by means of the flash-light. Yet this is the837 words
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Miscellaneous988 1900-04-17 3 SHARE LIST, APRIL IJ%h, g o O Bank o( t ,na and Japan fTSSSik fS!I D,r. I 2~ (> I 1 Wrtiiim I Agwcj. t|S«fc». 4 1Ui000 (t v 5.584 8,' 5 84 Zi OMT Water Dairy Farm Ltd. $100 t l f I>4 6 tras^r and Ncave Ltd. *8988 words
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Advertisement1157 1900-04-17 4 riin.uapore Sportiiig Club, PROGKAMME FOR SPRING RACE MEETING 1900. I May gmd, -4th and 26th. FIRST DAY. Tuesday, 12nd May. First Rm:i. I hi Mums Plat*.— Value I300. A Race for Ma.den Horses— Weight as per scale (lost.) An allowance of 2ilb. 10 ex-Griffins, imported into the Straits Settlements or1,157 words
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Advertisement689 1900-04-17 4 i& *l KflNWGft y Japan 1 M TOILET WATER fl I ApprwiatPd tor its delicate yvrfume and tii'. 1 to liny ol romfort and freshness whii li it imparts m the sV.in Kananga Extract 1 itillSll once oripin^l. jjratciul r.n.i 1 L r^i>lciu!» fragrjnl. m.r.,.-r CN s RIGAUD&C". 8. rue689 words
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Advertisement222 1900-04-17 4 RILEY, HARGREAVES CO., LTD. ENGINEERS, Iron and Brass Founders Bridge and Shipbuilders AND General Contractors. Steam Vessels -IN STULOR WOOD— PASSBNGBI AND < ARCo STIAMIM LAI NCHES AND LIGHIFRS Stern Wheel and Light draft steamers a sp<:< lality Boilers. Lancashire, Corni>h, Vetticaf, Locomolivc and Maru.' Engines Winding and Hau iog222 words
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Advertisement144 1900-04-17 4 Portable Stationary Engines. BY THE FIRST "LASS MAKERS Messrs. Ranomess, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd. ENGLAND. CATALOGUES, AND FULL PARTICULARS TO BE OBTAINED PROM FISHER A FOSTER— Agents. MOUNI WTALUCH, SINGAPORE Mir '7 tuth 5 7 a LONDON. MAN<HKMIH $VDNEV Sd&SSuS&h Awarded Over 250 Prizes, ySffiSSg 1 PARIS, j \SMA\I\ amSßJriiam144 words
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Advertisement352 1900-04-17 4 THE BANGKOK TIMES. Cable, Times Bangkok." Tub Leading NmMM m Siam and widely circulated <n Malaya, Cochin-China, China, th« i Straits Settlements and Burma. A Daily .V run paper with a weekly Mail Edition (20 p.p.j SiBMRiPTios, Daily 'postage extra) delivered free locally, $30 a year. Weekly. Post Free $20352 words
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Advertisement612 1900-04-17 4 The Singapore Free Press. AKO Mercantile Advertiser Cablk Address,— Advertiser, *'tgmpu\t TUMMM Nuaiißß.- No. Published at 30-3, Raffles Plate, birg» fOr< THE leading English Newspaper ir t h f Straits Settlements JohorFederated Native States of Perak, Sctn, gor, Sungei Ujong, Pahang, the FWj Sembilan British North Borneo; Sarawak Netherlands Indies.612 words
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Page 4 Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous899 1900-04-17 4 VESSELS EXPECTED. Cilviiitf purt o? an' '"'o« n date due here, and name of Agmti. Mkn-oi ah Asuu, Jsp-- I'oilsmoutli. due Ap!. Goliath, H.M.S., C haiham, due May Inuall*. U. S., New York, due Apl. Janus, t.b.d. H.M.S., Siieernebs, due Maj Nu 1, t b.d. Jap., Portsmouth, due Apl. OTTtR,899 words
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