Straits Echo, 6 December 1915
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Title Section35 1915-12-06 1 Straits Echo CAiLK CHRONICLE OF EVENTS. CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE STRAITS, THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES AND THE FAR BAST GENERALLY VOL. 13. $24 Per Annua. PENANG, MONDAY, 6th DECEMBER, 1915. Single C»»j, 10 cmti. No. 27935 words
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Advertisement1135 1915-12-06 1 FRESH CRAPES New Shipment Exi i i •i pected Shortly and Orders Solicited. Tiang Lee Co. For Cars on Hire BANKS EMPIRE "The Little Aristocrat Call at or 'phone (No. 694) to Georgetown Motor Garage 7 A t Penang Road. Just Unpacked A New Shipment of Motor and Cycle Accessories.1,135 words
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Advertisement15 1915-12-06 1 I FRESH GRAPES. Choicest quality to last the season. (Apply Tiang Lee Co. I i15 words
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Advertisement17 1915-12-06 2 DRINK I RECOGNISED BY CONNOISSEURS THE LEADING BRAND ON THE MARKET. SOLE AGENTS; KATZ BROTHERS, LTD., PENANG.17 words
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Article970 1915-12-06 3 Conscription may have drawbacks, but it undoubtedly produces a high standard of discussion and talk in the trenches. Among the chalk pits of that curious tract of country where Attila met bis great reverse at the hauds of the ancestors of these little Freuchmen, who may yet inflict970 words
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Article981 1915-12-06 3 If age brings respectability, then is cop- per the moat respectable of all metals, for it is undoubtedly the oldest. But for its coming we have to travel far back along ths dusty corridors of time. Calling imagination to our aid we can quickly pas 9 beyond981 words
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Advertisement170 1915-12-06 3 METHYLATED SPIRITS! (QUALITY GUARANTEED.) Wholesale Price $3-50 per tin of 4 gellons. Retail price 20 cents per quart A bottle. OBTAINABLE AT CHEAH KEE EE Co., 56, China Street, Penang. (f 3 DC The Bernese Alps Milk Co. CONT* ACTOR* TO THE Admiralty 8* India Office won imp. Wf Mi170 words
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Advertisement61 1915-12-06 3 A Favorite Rob Down. The golfer, the football player and the all round athlete know the value of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. It is just the thing for a rub down after a hard game. All soreness disappears like magic and sprains and swellings are cured in one-tbird less time than61 words
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Advertisement532 1915-12-06 3 Anaemia or Poorness of Blood, is far more prevalent than is generally supposed. Men, Women and Children are all liable to suffer. If neglected, serious consequences may result. If taken when the symptoms are first noticed, it is a very simple matter to enrich the blood and so effectually check532 words
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Article987 1915-12-06 4 In literary circles he who goes a-borrow-iog goes to a publisher with his loot and in many eases attains to publication and royalties. Unfortunately there is no copyright in ideas nor is the impalpable booty identifiable in the strict police sense The literary thief must be left to987 words
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Advertisement232 1915-12-06 4 PENANG LIBRARY. (Opposite St. George’s Churoh.) Comprises some 20,000 Volumes, including the Q} valuable Logan Library of Literature dealing with Malaya and the Easters Archipelago. Entrance Fee $2-00. Sukecriotion Books: $l-50 per quarter. Newspapers and Magazines: $l-50 per quarter. Visiting Subscribers $l-00 per month without Entrance Fee. Farther particulars 0.0232 words
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Article1039 1915-12-06 5 A Iis4trt Bake!. Mr. R. J. Wilkinson, who has gaine some reputation as a philologist in Malay, will find plenty of Bcope for his bent in tn direction in his new post for the language of West Africa are commonly reputed t be more numerous and difficult than1,039 words
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Article270 1915-12-06 5 Edmund Gosse, writing to The Timet, says: My excellent friend, Professor Seippel, of Geneva, who is a fervant supporter of the Entente Allies, has asked me to bring to your notice the melancholy and mysterious fate of the poet, Max Dauthendey. The professor assures me that270 words
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Article173 1915-12-06 5 Foutniuhtlt Handicap Shoot. This took place on Sunday morning, the i ranges shot at being 200, 500 and 600 yards and resulted as under i Mrs. Wright-Motion with h’cap .70 made 93,90 Mrs A. E. Murray .60 93 40 2nd Lieut. Hogan .09 92.26 Pte. Gilman173 words
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Article73 1915-12-06 5 The output and profits from Kramat Pnlai, Limited, for the month of November 1915, were as follows Output. Estimated Dressed Ore. Profit. From the Mine 814,000 From Tributors 870 Total 805 78 pis. 114,870 The total output of the Tronoh Mines, Ltd. from all sources for the mouth73 words
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Advertisement203 1915-12-06 5 < Id </) Q Id 0£ SCOTCH WHISKY O Id 0. t/> z < z < X u 3 ID o IN n: SCOTCH 5% JAMES Oi>5GOW "SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT w BLACK&WHITE ALWAYS THE HIGHEST QUALITY ■o 70 O ■o > D m > r m 70 Sole Agents203 words
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Advertisement423 1915-12-06 5 lĕt, sor jpme nd [ax lat mt ass r D I Westminster Cigarettes 1 I D J. TURKISH BLEND A. A. GRADE are unequalled. 1 n D Packed in Hermetically Sealed Q Tins of 50’s. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. H D E D 0 T HE TOPIC OF THE423 words
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Article244 1915-12-06 5 Lbs. Alma 22.250 Bukit Toh Along 13,259 Shanghai Elebang 9,231 Kota Bthroe 31,165 Suogei Duri 11,676 Chemor United 15,347 Shanghai Malay 11,862 Cluny 16,103 Einta Eellas 26,850 Tanjong Pau 7,513 Old Eellas 14.527 Euala Kangsar 32,303 Alor Pongsu Rubber Estate Ltd., 20,065 Brieh Rubber Estate Ltd., 6.303244 words
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Article45 1915-12-06 6 Rome, December 6. In Consistory on Deeember 6 (to-day) Eis Holiness the Pope will deliver his Allocution, again deploring the horrors of the war and demanding a speedy peace which will be just and durable and not favouring one side only.45 words
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Article64 1915-12-06 6 Via Neutral Port», London, December 4. A correspondent writes to the Daily Mail to point out that, while Denmark’s annual consumption of tea is 1,000,000 lb., in the month of November alone 2,250,000 lb. were exported to that country from the United Kingdom. The correspondent says t64 words
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Article45 1915-12-06 6 London, December 3. The Japanese steamer Kitano Maru from Yokohama for London is ashore near Margate. London, December 4. The Kitavo Maru has been refloated. [The agents here have received the following wire Kitano Maru arrived London all safe no apparent damage.”]45 words
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Article30 1915-12-06 6 Copenhagen, December 5, The Swedish Steamer Nordvik, bound from Grimsby to Stockholm and laden with coal, has been blown up by a mine. Five persons were drowned.30 words
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Article32 1915-12-06 6 Monopolies' Fine Haul. (From Oxur Oivn Correspondent,') Singapore, December 6. The Monopolies Staff have seized a ton of opium and 200 t-thils of chandu cn board the eteamer Tydeus.32 words
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Article69 1915-12-06 6 Chairman's Announcement. (From Our Own Correspondent). Singapore, December 6. Mr. W. H. Macgregor, Chairman of the Pulau Bulang Rubber Co announced that enemy nationals own of the issued capital and owe $29,550 on calls arrears. The directors have decided to forfeit the pbares with calls unpaid on69 words
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Article, Illustration96 1915-12-06 6 Pabliahed daily (except Sundays ud p»fcl ia holidays) AT THB CRITERION PRESS. Ltd. No. 59. Beach Street, Peuang. Plica. Daily Local 924 per aan?n Oatetatioa... Postage Extra. Mail Editioa (Pool Free) 917.50 OABLa ADDBBSS ECHO—PENANG Telephone Nos. (Echo. 586 Priatiag Department 343 K tt. —All kdltMi eewwuoieetioe*96 words
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Article34 1915-12-06 6 Dasi*l*-Go»win —On December 6, at St. George’s Church, Penang by the Rev. F. W. Haines, Colonial Chaplain, Henry George Daniels of Batak Rabit Estate, Teluk Anson, to Muriel Herbert Godwin, of Clevedcn, Somerset.34 words
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Article1214 1915-12-06 6 Undoubtedly the Colonial Office has done the right thing in going outside the Straits and F.M.S. Civil 83rvice for a successor to Mr. Wilkinson as Colonial Secretary. This remark, be it said at once, is not intended to imply or convey the slightest reflection on the ability1,214 words
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Article85 1915-12-06 6 We learn that in consequence of the article, A Scandal in Sumatra,” which appeared in the Straits Echo some weeks ago arrangements have been mado by the Anglo-Dutch Agency, who act as agents at Medan for the P. and O, s.s. Mata Mari to terminate the85 words
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Article802 1915-12-06 6 Dr. J. H. Tennent has been promoted to be Medical Officer, Class IV. Mr. G.A. De C. De Moubray is to be an assistant Superintendent of Immigrants. The Rev. W. Murray will conduct divine service on Malakoff Estate on Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell, who802 words
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Article649 1915-12-06 6 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. OBJECTIONABLE DIPLOMATS. t London, December 3, 10.25 p.m. A cable from Washington states that it it understood that Mr. Lansing, the United r States Secretary of State, informed the German Ambassador, Count Bernstorff, that Capj tain Boy-Ed, the German naval attache ia j649 words
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Advertisement375 1915-12-06 6 Why pay doctor’s bills, one of our raincoats would be cheaper. PRICE $10-50 ONLY. M W v\ w T> PRICE $10-50 ONLY. Insist on Gresham Waterproof Coats, best London made, absolutely waterproofed and guaranteed to keep well in any climate. New Shades in Fawn, Drab, Sage Olive. All sizes in375 words
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Article1284 1915-12-06 7 (Reuter's Service.) Copyright Telegram. FALL OF MONASTIR. i London, December 3, 11.25 p.m. a A cable from Salonika states that the f Serbians evacuated Monastir on Thursday «reniog by order, not under prsssure by the Bulgarians. Au»tro-Germa»»’ Fresh Move. London, December 3, 6 30 p m. A1,284 words
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Article592 1915-12-06 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. London, December 4, 1.30 a.m. The Paris communique reports that artillery actions continued. A small post which the Germans had surprised south of f Lombaertzyde was recaptured. There was mine and grenade-fighting almost on the j entire front. The French silenced592 words
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Article672 1915-12-06 7 (Reuter Service.) Copyright Telegram. BLOODY FIGHTING. London, December 4, 12.10 a.m. A telegram from Rome states it is officially reported that a fierce enemy onslaught on the Mrzli redoubt, proceeded by a terrific artillery prepiration, resulted in the enemy entering the Italian lines, from which he was672 words
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Article476 1915-12-06 7 (Reuter’s Service.) Copyright Telegram. RIDICULOUS ANTICS. New York, December 5. The American motor-car manufacturer Mr. Henry Ford, who at the time when the British Loan was floated in the United States threatened to withdraw his deposits from any bank subscribing to the loan, recently issued two hundred476 words
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Article145 1915-12-06 7 The following articles will be found on our outside pages:— Page. 3.—Copper and Kultur. From France. V— Literary Borrowings. 5. —Random Notes. The Germans in Sumatra. Penang Volunteer Rifle Club. Tin Output. November Rubber Crops. 8, —Legislative Council. Straits Chinese Association. Naval Notes. Reign of Terror. Penang Swimming Club.145 words
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Article390 1915-12-06 7 FROM DUTCH SOURCES. The following special telegrams are from the Sumatra Post of Friday, and Saturday, December 3 aud 4 Holland and the War. Mr. Pleyte, Minister of the Colonies, was expected to ba well enough to attend the sitting of the Chamber on Friday. There have390 words
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Article230 1915-12-06 7 One Killed Two Injured. Not a little sensatiou and excitement was caused in the area between Acheen Street and the Pitt Street Station early yesterday morning when a Chinaman, named Ong Ling, who was armed with a knife, rushed into the Pitt Street Police Station and admitted230 words
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Article223 1915-12-06 7 Daniels —Godwin. A quiet but pretty wedding was solemnised at St. George’s Church this morning by Rev. F. VV. Haines, Colonial Chaplain, the contracting parties being Mr. Henry George Daniels, Planter, of Batak Rabifc Estate, Teluk Anson, and Miss Muriel Herbert Godwin, of Clevelon, Somerset, who arrived here223 words
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Obituary23 1915-12-06 7 Obituary. London, December 4. The death has occurred of W. J. Love joy, the well-known professional billiard player who discovered the anchor oannon.23 words
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Article1496 1915-12-06 8 NEW WAR MEASURES PASSED 1 INT LAW. VoLKUmM OK AcTPTK SuRVIOI. A meeting of the Legislative Council was held on Friday afternoon, at which there were present H E. the Governor (Sir A. H. Young, K.C.M.G.), H-E the General Officer Commanding the Troops (Brigadier-general D. H. Ridout, C.1,496 words
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428 1915-12-06 8 Malacca BkancmA general meeting of the Straits-born Chinese of Malacca was held in the Chinese Malacca Club last Saturday, says the Atainpa Trikune, to elect officers and to consider what form of service the British-born Cdinese of Malacca are prepared to offer the (4-overnmentand, to appoint428 words
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Article893 1915-12-06 8 THE TRAPPING OF VON SPEE AT THE FALKLANDS. Mtstrrxous Mss sacks. London, November 2. Mr. Frederick Palmer’s recently published articles on the work of the Fleet contain an interesting and rather curious account of the events leading up to the action off the Falklands It is stated that893 words
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Article955 1915-12-06 8 PERAK RAVAGED BY BUSHRANGERS. < Necessity of Prompt and Effective Action. It ia abundantly manifest, says the Malay Tiibune, from information appearing in the F. M. S. papers recently as well as from what we bare learnt from a valued correspondent in Perak that a gang of955 words
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Article68 1915-12-06 8 “The November Monthly Medal Com. petition viz. 200 yards handicap was swum off on Sunday with the following result| Start. Ist SA. Yell 7 secs. 2nd W. H. Threlfall 20 3rd G. M. Terzano Scratch. There were six starters and Yell won by a yard in 268 words
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567 1915-12-06 8 Dec. 3 By Balance $42,964.81 4 A. R. W. Landon monthly subscription 15.00 Anonymous monthly subscription 35.00 Lim” Kongsi 10th instalment 3000 4 Balance 43,044.81 Remitted to London £lO,OOO on 24-2-15... 85,618.73 Total subscription to date .«,$128,663.54 The rate of mortality in the567 words
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Advertisement586 1915-12-06 8 NOTICE. NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. Khoo Swee Hong has this day bought over the Cinematograph show lately known as the George Town Cinematograph from Chee bin Em ao4 that he will not be responsible for any cU bts contracted by the said Chee in connection with the above586 words
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Advertisement58 1915-12-06 8 A machine weakened in one part toon breaks down altogether. This is the case with sufferers from indigestion, a moat disheartening complaint. If you are troubled, turn immediately to WOODS' MEAT PEPPIRMINT CURE A course of this medicine will place the body machine in perfect running order. Sold at Dispensaries58 words
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Advertisement107 1915-12-06 8 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Great Peppermint Care Is. 6d. Plants for Sale. No, 15, Northam Road. FROM Ist May, 1916, premises Nos. 27 and 27a, Beach Street, at present occupied by Messrs. Huttenbach Bros. A Co. Suitable for offices and godowns Apply to GAN NGOH BEE, 660 3, Light107 words
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Article1077 1915-12-06 9 A PREDICTION WITH REGARD i TO THE DARDANELLES. The Pessimists Silenced. Mr. Sydney A. Moseley has an article, I Some Truths about the Dardanelles,'’ in the Contemporary Revie is, in which be I confounds the pesssimists who have qualms I regarding the Gallipoli campaign. He I predicts that1,077 words
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Advertisement2471 1915-12-06 9 THE Eastern 8 Oriental Sales Room. By Order of Pussy Fatlmah the administratrix of the Estate of Mahomed Arlff deceased TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION All the undermentioned valuable Freehold Properties at Nos 52 and 54, Bishop Street, Penang, (except Lot No. 1 which will be sold by Public2,471 words
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Advertisement486 1915-12-06 9 Try Beecham’s Pills, they are just the thin* u a family medicine. Nothing to be compared with them has yet been put before the public. For over half a century this medicine has been an easy First Favourite in countless households and the name and fame of Beecham's Pills have486 words
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Article948 1915-12-06 10 Lincoln, Wilson ind Roosntnlt. "I do not believe this Government can endure permanently half slave and half free,” said Lincoln in his Springfield Convention speech of June 16, 1858. Nor can it endure half American and half alien. President Wilson, in his address before the Daughters of948 words
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Article930 1915-12-06 10 Arundel del Rn - By Arundel del Rn. HOW SHE WILL INTERVENE IN THE BALKANS. Grosseto. After four and a half months of war it is possible now to take stock of what Italy has accomplished and the results her vigorous offensive has had on the general conduct of the war. In930 words
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Advertisement10 1915-12-06 10 For Chronic Chest Complaints, Woods’ Orest Peppermint Cere Is, 6d.10 words
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Advertisement202 1915-12-06 10 i H 1 HS: SOLE AGENTS FOR MM m Have much pleasure in announcing the arrival oi THE NEW MODEL No. 10. A m a iy oAffil I a V* LuinTTTTrar,c ?-jr w If n 2 a M s s ra Tp (71 CJO IVPEVy R,TE RCnM^.^ I Z^A.m PRICE202 words
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Article1652 1915-12-06 11 Foster Pilgrim - (By Foster Pilgrim.) PROSPERITY NOT POVERTY. Hysteric» is scarcely too strong a word o apply to the popular vision of a world m n^ru f° r a generation by the war which is now raging in Europe. Unless we are to abandon human experience as our safest guide,1,652 words
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Article197 1915-12-06 11 When it was recently announced that construction on the Baghdad Railway have lately been proceeding at the rate of about a mile a day, we pointed out that the assertion deserved to be received with some scepticism. The fact is that this railway, designed to link Berlin with197 words
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Advertisement88 1915-12-06 11 Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. When you have a bad cold you want a remedy that will not only give relief, but effect a prompt and permanent cure, a remedy that is ploasant to take, a remedy that contains nothing injurious. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy meets all these requirements. It acts on nature’s88 words
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Advertisement285 1915-12-06 11 by appointment TO H. M. THE KINO NESTLE CHOCOLATE FOR THE FRONT. Haying been requested by several Residents in the Malay Peninsula to send parcels of Nestle Chocolates to relatives or friends at the Front, we have now made arrangements to send parcels from our London Office on the following285 words
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