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BOMB WRECKS EXECUTIVE MANSION IN CKLIFOBNIX Both Governor and • Mrs, Stephens Have Narrow Es cape From Death , SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Dec. 18.—What is believed to have been an attempt to kill Governor William D. Stephens by means of a powerful explosive bomb at midnight last night resulted in the wrecking of the executive mansion, the entire rear end of the building being blown out. The Governor and Mrs. Ste phens. as well as the household serv ants. were asleep at the time and all es- I caped injury. Two men were seen fleeing fropn the house immediately after the explosion. The detonation of the explosion was heard all 6ver the city and windows were broken by the force of it two or three blocks away. It was believed that from twenty to twenty-five sticks of dy namite were used. Governor and Mrs. Stephens were asleep in the wing of the house adjoin • ing the spot where the explosion oc curred. but beyond a nervous shock they were unharmed. The attempt occurred just as the guard was being changed. H. Claussen, | one of the watchmen, was the first on the -scene. having passed the spot but a ' few minutes before the explosion. Claussen said he was certain there was nothing unusual occurring on the grounds. He expressed the opinion that the explosive was thrown from an alley which runs along the rear of the house to a distance of about forty feet from the porch under which the charge ' was set off. Whole Block Shaken A hole several feet in depth and at lease five feet wide was torn in the ground beneath a bay window at the rear of the structure and the entire wall up to the second story was blown sway. The entire neighborhood was aroused and a crowd was on the scene a few minutes after the explosion. There was scarcely a house In the block which was not affected. A clew as to the perpetrators was given to the police by the Rev. Frazer Langford, pastor of a church, who re ported that four months ago a man was noticed looking about the executive I mansion, and that he continued to haunt the locality until a week ago, 1 when he disappeared “According to my judgment, - ' said Governor Stephens, “the bomb was thrown from the alleyway about forty feet to the rear of the mansion, and did not light as far under the house as its owner had intended I am strength ened in this statement -by the fact that the back gates were both locked as usual and the watchman had visited the basement just a few minutes before the explosion occurred. He says that when he passed the steps he turned his flash light on the place where indications prove the bomb was placed and at that I time there was nothing there.’’ Governor C*lt> The governor was probably the Alm est of the group that surveyed the . wrecked mansion Detectives searched downtown room ing houses without success for a man said to have been seen in the neighbor , hood of the mansion at an early hour | in the" evening William D. Stephens became governor of California last spring, when Governor | Hiram Johnson assumed his duties as , United States senator. Last week Governor Stephens made a series of patriotic addresses in southern i California, dealing largely with the duties of Californians in supporting the national government during the war. No Clue Obtained The police had found neither a mo tive for the explosion or a definite clue to Its perpetrators. They were Inclined, however, to reject the theory that the explosive was thrown against the building from an I alley, because of a high fence, but noth ing has been shown to indicate the bomb was “planted." The last person admitted to the ex ecutive mansion was a Chinese servant, who came in about 11:30 p. m. The po lice say the explosion occurred between that hour and midnight. Alabama’s Black Belt Furnished 8,285 Men (Special Dispatch to The Journal ! MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 18.—Rec-, ords of the first draft of Alabama men for the national army show that the state furnished 5,327 white men and 8.285 negroes, or 2,908 more negroes than white persons. Employes of the ! state military department completed the tabulation of reports from local exemp tion boards Monday. The Urge number of negroes is accounted for by the ex-. cessive negro population in the black belt of Alabama. With a few exceptions, all white men drawn for service in the first quota have gone to the training camps, while l not more than one-half, if that many. I negroes have been placed in service. The military department stated that it had not been advised when the state’s re maining negro selectmen would be called It is probable that the negroes will not be called Into service until units now in training have been sent to France, thus making room for the train- | l k ing of the selectmen. Prominent People Held In Counterfeiting Case l COLUMBIA. S. C., Dec. 19.—Rufus Shannon and his wife Mattie Shannon, both of prominent family connection ’ iln Richland county, and William Wad- I dell, alias Wirt Moore Waddell, have been arrested here by secret service | I operatives on a charge of counterfeit- > ing. Mattle" Shannon and Waddell are 1 in the county jail, while Shannon is in a local hospital where he was taken recently following injury in a street car accident A supply of metal, dies, molds, sandpaper and other parapher nalia for making counterfeit nickels and dollars was found in the house oc- ; cupied by the Shannons, according to the secret service men. ■ - ( Local Option Candidate Appels to Alabama Voters' (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 18.—De i . daring that “a small coterie of aggres r j sive zealots” has forced congress to sub mit the national prohibition amendment : which received a favorable report In the 1 lower house Ute Monday, John H. Wal lace. Jr., local option candidate for gov ernor, last night called upon the voters of this state to elect a legislature i which will decline to ratify the amend . meat. He said the people had never voted for state-wide prohibition, but had rejected such one time by a vote of 7«.27S to 49,093 when the issue was submitted in the form of an amendment to tlx state constitution. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917. SEPARATE PEACE IS INEVITABLE RESULT DF BOLSHEVIKI RULE Germany Hastening Negotia tions So That Peace Can Be Concluded Before Fall of Lehine and Trotzky WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A separate peace between Russia and Germany is inevitable and nothing less than a mira cle will prevent its consummation unless Russia shakes herself free from the stranglehold of Bolshevikism, Rus sian officials predicted today. "The effects of a separate peace be tween Russia and Germany cannot be overestimated," a Russian official stated. "Once a separate peace has been signed, the action will be irrepar able. Germany realizes this and will let nj obstacle stand in her way. She will even make concessions which she has no intention of keeping in order to further the criminal actions of the Bol sheviki. Official forecast at the embassy is that Germany and Austria will comply with Trotsky’s "no annexation, no con tribution and self-definition of boundar ies" demands. The Teuton foreign ministers proba bly will also agree not to use any forces how on the Russian front against the allies—because the Germans no longer have a formidable force stationed there. What forces formerly stationed along the Russian front have not been trans ported to other fronts, or replaced by weaker units, have mostly been with drawn far enough from the line to place them out of the Jurisdlctiin of the “joker” in Trotsky’s peace program. “Conclusion of a separate peace, whichP now seems inevitable,” an official said, “will be an irreparable wrong to loyal Russia and her allies. Once sep arate peace articles have been signed, Russia will be permanently out of the war. The fact that such a peace agree ment will be illegal, having been con summated by an irresponsible power, will in no way mitigate its effective ness.” That the Bolshevik! will continue In power long enough to put over their peace program is predicted by Russian officials. Latest reports indicate that more than one-half of Russia territorial ly and numerically has repudiated the Maximalist regime. At the present rate of disintegration, their downfall should come within a month, it was stated, but this will be too late. < "Germany’s game is to sign a sepa rate peace before the downfall comes,” a high Russian official said. “The cen tnbl powers will not push their demands for eentributions at present because they know it will be virtually impossi ble to collect. It would make a sepa rate peace- more difficult. Germany also can afford to agree, in her hypocritical way, to no annexations because Lithuania. Poland, Courland and Fin land’s insistence upon autonomy will make them easy victims for German absorption after the war.” The Lenine-Trotzky threat of terror ism to be instituted against their op ponents is no idle boast, official believe. It has always taken an iron hand to rule Russia, and the Bolsheviki are not Inclined to ignore Kerensky’s expe rience. They would inaugurate a reign of terrorism as readily as they are now insisting upon separate peace. But, tn the bloody excesses which are bound to come Russia will again regain her sense of political equilibrium, officials predict. U. S. Balloonists Fired Upon by Bibb Farmers; “Shoot Again,” One Said ■ ■ ■■ I I* 111 I MACON, Ga.. Dec. 18.—The first an J second battalion flights of Camp Wheel er’s newly inaugurated balloon school took place Saturday and Monday re spectively. and in each instance the bal loonists were fired on by farmers, ac cording to Balloonists Mulliken and i .Jewell, who made the flights. Jewell related his experience yester day as follows: • “About twelve miles from Macon two men rushed out with a shotgun, and al though I was too far up to be hit, yet I I could distinctly hear the report of the gun and hear one man say to the other: , Shoot again. John, maybe you will hit 1 him next time.’ ” ■■■■■■■■ \C ,7 ■■■■■■■■■ Your Farm Home . in Sunny Florida await* you. It’a a Big Crop Region—a Land of Plenty for Farming and Stock Raising. Good School*, Churcne* and ample transportation fa cilities. Healthful Climate —adequate Rainfall and Good Roads. Every month a growing month. The Florida East Coast Railway Company (Flagler System) through its subsidiary companies—The Model Land Co., Perrine Grant Land Co., Chuluota Co. and Okeechobee Co. .own and have for sale large areas of land suitable for farms or truck gardens; also town lots for homes in attractive sites. Buy no Florida lands until you get reliable information. Free Illustrated Literature on requeat. Your questions promptly answered in detail. Write today to J. E. INGRAHAM. Vice-Prasidant Florida East Coast Railway Co. Room 19 City Building St Augustine, Florida GIVEN AWAYrggeafc Iris Wxday forint. Smith . Hair e Totuc to a«ll at 10c per k pkff Raturn 20 aad la* will send wadding ■ rtne aad bracelet, wamated f SMUHDBU«CO.Bn 161 .Wo«dsbws,lH, MISERY FOUND IN HOUSEHOLDS IN KAISER’S LAND 'Homes Cold for Lack of Coal and Dark for Want of Light. Women Require Official Per mits for Purchases RY HERBEBT COBBY. BASEL, Switzerland. Oft.'2s. —In con sidering social conditions in Germany from across the border in Switzerland, one is struck by this apparent fact: The "load line” of national misery does not mount to any peaks. But It continues along a monotonous and un deviating level of privations and dis comfort which must be indefinitely de pressing. No one starves, but no one has enough to eat. ?N’o one freezes, but no one is warm. No one goes naked, but no one is well dressed. No one is deprived of the actual ne cessities of life, but no one has the amaller alleviations that lessen the nerv ous tension of life in war-time. There are no minor amusements. Once the German hausfrau , might visit her favorite coffee hou'se for coffee and cakes in the afternoon. There is no cof fee now and no cakes, and consequently no coffee houses. It is true that the na tionally endowed opera houses are bang ing away full blare and that military bands play in the public squares in al most every German city. Beer drinking was once a nationaJ sport. That is a statement of bare fact. The German had the best beer in the world to drink and he drank it with all the will in the world. It was a poor or a sickening German who did not visit his favorite beer hall at least once a week with his family, to listen to good music and sometimes good singing, to smoke many pipes and drink various huge pots of brew. His “stammtisch” night was far more sacred than Sunday. Then he met his cronies at the table which had been set apart for them on that night of the week for a generation and gossiped and told stories and drank beer in happiness. “The German is gemutlich,” says one who knows the German well. “He lives for his social hour and glass with his friends." All that has gone by. The German beer is a poor thing nowadays. It has been watered and rewatered and watered again until it is practically undrinkable. I have been told by people who left Ber lin not long ago that for months they have not tasted beer. It is a thin soap-and-watery, distress ing beverage that has neither flavor nor punch. Only the victim of long habit continues to drink it, and he is drawn by the habit and not by the beer. In certain localities the manufacture of beer has long been forbidden. In others it is still being brewed, under strict gov ernment regulation as to content and the hours in which it may be drunk. Only in Bavaria is beer comparatively —note the comparatively—free to thirs ty souls. The Bavarian would fight and go hungry and half clothed, but go absolutely thirsty he would not. He has never had a vast liking or re spect for the kaiser, aaiyhow and his adhesion to the German empire is prompted by his realization of the tangible advantages of membership and by the further fact that he cannot get away. Therefore he had no patriotic sentiment strong ’enough to induce him to give up the beer which had been a good part of his life. He bluntly re fused to give up beer, kaiser or no kaiser. So the courts took cognizance of this menacing attitude and formally held that: “In Bavaria beer must be consider ed as a prime necessity of life." His point gained, the Bavarian con ceded something to circumstance. Beer drinking in Bavaria is limited now. so that each man has the right to one full glass of beer and two half glasses dur- I ing the course of each day, and to no i more. The • beer, be it understood, is no more like the Bavarian beer of old than skimmed milk is like Jersey cream. No beer cards have been Issued and the rugged and determined beer drinker can still go from beer hall to beer hall, drinking his one full glass and two half glasses in each place. But that is not the custom of the Bavarian. He wants to puddle himself slowly, hour after hour, in a reverie of beer, contempla tion, music, sausage and smoke. He has the attachment of the house cat for his beer hall. Having once placed himself he is good for the evening. Not even the Bavarian can stand his permitted allowance of modern Bava rian beer. Fathers stay at home of nights * nowadays who have not seen their families by candlelight for years. Nor is the German home a pleasant one nowadays even if that national bur den of sorrow and depression did not weigh upon every rooftree. It is cold and dark. The street lights go out in all cities at 11 o’clock. They are not needed later, for there is no one on the streets. In many cities, and perhaps in the whole empire, a police ourfew is to -Ying this winter at 9 o’clock. So that lights shall not be permitted in the homes or on the streets after that hour. Even earlier in the evening not one light twinkles now where a dozen shone before. • The (In ter den Linden, Berlin’s Show street, is barely picked out of the darkness by the lamps that sHiWe at distant in tervals. The lesser streets are in some instances not lighted at all. So that the householder fights his way home after the day's work on tram lines that are crowded to the last inch of ca pacity. Once no more than two standees were permitted in a tram in most Ger man cities, but now the last comers hang perilously on the steps. The roadbed has gone to pieces, for repairs are only made when they are forced. The cars have not been painted for two years and if they are not coming to pieces, at least their joints are loosened. Flat wheels are ax normal as round wheels used to be. The householder has been hungry for months and he is as hungry a.s ever when he gets up from the meal of mildly flavored vegetables which Is the German dinner of today. One lamp and *no more is the rule in the average household. At 9 o’clock in many cities that lamp must be put out. During the long summer evenings life has perhaps been not so positively un pleasant as it will be this winter. There is to be no central heating hereafter, j because of the lack of coal. Only one room in each house may be heated, and that only to a degree which will permit the German to sit about without an overcoat. This is the report which reaches Switz erland. The curfew ordinance forbidding street or house lighting after 9 o’clock in the evening will automatically re strict house warming to that hour. If the hausfrau has sought during the day to relieve herself by shopping, her lord and master is apt to find her in a stern and forbidding turn of mind when he settles down to pipe and slippers after dark. Shopping is on the index of expur gated amusements. If the hausfrau i wants to buy a broom she may go to a shop, state her wants, pay for the broom, put it under her arm and go home. But I Alleged Fake Officer Held Under SB,OOO Bond For U. S. Grand Jury Charles R. E. McCann, alias Warren G. Grey, was bound over under an JB.OOO bond Monday afternoon by United States-Commissioner W. Colquitt Carter. He is now lodged in the Fulton county Tower, pending an investigation by the federal grand jury. McCann was brought before Commis sioner Carter for a hearing, out Jttlor ney Harvey Hill, representing the de fendant, did not care to go into the evidence, and after one witness made a statement Attorney Hill said he was willing to waive the hearing. McCann was brought into court Mon day on the charge of impersonation of an officer with intent to iefraud. It Is understood that his mother is coming to Atlanta to assist him. McCann married Miss Rebie Wilkins in Atlanta December 1 and insists that he still loves her, ajtd would make good if given a chance. In event that he makes bond it is understood that tne military authorities will immediately take him in hand on the charge of de sertion. T. S. Wilkins, father of Miss Wilkins, issued a .statement Tuesday in which be indignantly denied the report that his daughter still loved McCann. Mr. Wilkins stated that his daughter was met at the New York dock by friends and left McCann immediately, with no intention of ever seeing him again. Mr. Wilkins also stated that the young lady would return to Atlanta and will immediately institute proceedings for divorce. ■ ■* ; if she wants to buy a broom she may not begin the transaction in time-hal lowed fashion by looking at swan’s-down cloaks and the more candid theories in opera wear. The government Is rigidly restricting the temptation to spend money needlessly. Before she may look at any article of apparel she must produce for the shop? keeper a police permit stating that she may buy it. Sometimes that permit Is limited as to the district and sometimes even to the shop in which the purchase may be made. In some cities the hausfrau must be registered with one department store or one dry goods store and may not buy elsewhere. The handicap that puts upon the woman who enjoys an occasional afternoon of shopping is readily per ceived. If she does buy something she must carry it home herself, for the stores no longer deliver parcels. If the pack age is too big for her to handle, she must go on the street and strike a bar gain with a push-carter. There'are no automobiles on the Ger man streets now. except those belonging to the army or dilomatlc services. Many of these run on tires made of hinged wooden blocks. There are some anti quated electric vehicles which run after a fashion on misfit wheels. The benzo) burned in the few cars that are run ning is of such abominable quality that the. air is filled with smoke and stench long after the car has gone by. Naturally, there is no automobile de livery. Nor is there delivery by horse carts, for the few horses which still stagger about German city streets are used for the “droskies” —the little car riages which just hold two people com fortably. They are mere racks of bones, of course. Their food has necessarily been cut to the last straw, for fodder is needed for cattle which may later become food for humans. They began their term of drosky service as castoff and spavined wrecks unfit for anything else. The pushcarts on which all de liveries are now made are pushed either by women or cripples or temporarily exempt men. The women, for that mat ter. do much of the work In German streets now. They clean the streets and run the tramcars and light the lamps. In no one item of this acqpunt is there actual suffering to found. But when one adds the items, and reflects that no relief is to be found in amuse ment, one begins to comprehend the grave depression from whiclj, the Ger man eople are suffering. It is impor tant to understand that the people have not yet lost hope. The greater part of them firmly believe in eventual German victory. They are undergoing these miseries because they believe this. When the realization of inevitable defeat comes to them it seems certain to me that the collapse will be a sudden and an overwhelming one. It is not precisely accurate to say there 1s no amusement. On the other hand, the theaters and concert halls and opera houses reported as jammed full for every performance throughout the empire. The morbid Ibsenism of two years ago has gone out of fashion and the people demand only “laughing" plays now. In this the incessant demand fell by these jaded and worn-down nerves for some relief from the ever present griefs and privations inay be seen. But all this is relief for the moment only. They step out of the theaters to face the realjty they had momentarily for gotten. This reality is made up of saddening items such as the people of no other of the major belligerents are compelled to meet. The daily report of deaths and wounds from the front is common to all. But in Germany there is also the story of the ravages of the epidemic of dysentery in the next street, and of the danger of a coal shortage for lack of man-labor, and of the possibility that underfeeding in.ay be converted into starvation. The boy of the household has been called to the war, for boys of sixteen and one-half years have now been summoned to the colors. The fath er of the house is at the war or is engaged in work affiliated with the war —for men of fifty-five are now liable to call —or else he has been sent home to wait the day of his final call. The moral standards of the people have been breaking down. Juvenile mis behavior. petty theft, illegitimacy, are all reported as increasing. As a people the Germans face indus trial stagnation and grinding taxation and practically universal poverty even if the central powers win the war. If what the allies believe is inevitable comes to pass, and the central powers lose the war, the Germans know they face national bankruptcy plus individual bankruptcy plus repudiation and con fiscation. “If the very best happens we still are ruined.” said a Berlin banker to a friend of mine in Switzerland this week. This picture has not been painted in too black colors. There has been under statement rather than exaggeration. But from this brief and neutral-tinted statement of conditions as they seem to exist from across the line in Switzer land. the reader may arrive at an under standing of the utter depression which reigns in Germany today. No individual in all the warring countries so hopes and prays for peace today as the Ger man. I believe. But it would be both unfair and un wise to represent the German as having lost' heart and courage. There is every reason to believe that he will fight on for at least another year. He still hopes for peace bn his own terms. The German plans for next year s war are more sweeping and more scientific and more murderous than they have been for any of the past years of war. OLPIRTMENT ORDERS PROBE OF 10W GUMPS Result of Surgeon General Gorgas’ Report May Cause Congress to Act WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—The war department has issued orders carrying into effect urgent recommendations of Surgeon General Gorgas for removing and alleviating conditions which have led to excesisve measles and pneumonia cases in many American camps. His main 'recommendation was to re lieve overcrowding, giving a tent for five men instead of nine. The chief of staff at once ordered this change, along with establishment of observation camps, installation of plumbing in hos pitals where incomplete and expediting of issue of heavy clothing. Work on observation camps are in progress. This along with relief from overcrowding will ten<| materially to cut down the number of’measles eases to which pneumonia is generally traceable. Gorgas’ counsel, given nearly a month ago but revealed a short time ago. was promptly followed by the chief of staff. The war department said today Mhere has already been a marked improve ment as a Result of the changes. Camp Wheeler, for instance, where measles and pneumonia have been epidemic has shown a gratifying decrease in both. The clothing situation is now nearly remedied all around and the war de partment believes that henceforth there will be less reason for complaint as to sanitary conditions. • • Probable Congress Probe. Shocked by General Gorges' disclos ures, congress proposes to widen its inquiries to find why such conditions have been permitted to continue. Partly they are the natural outgrowth of transition from an unprepared peace to a state of war; others are manifestly due to mismanagement. All the facts for congressional prob ing will be promptly available, for Gen eral Gorgas’ department, spurred by the copimittee on public information, long since adopted »the policy of absolute frankness. His first revelations covered conditions at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga. Now, after a personal inspection, he has revealed that serious disease epi demics —mainly pneumonia and menin gitis—in Camps Funston. Kan.; Doni phan, Okla.; Bowie, Tex., and Sevier. S. C.. are traceable mainly to lack of warm clothing, insufficient hospital accommo dations, overcrowding and improper camp selection. ( Lack of proper clothing has been the most common and persistent cause of trouble. Men in the “sunny south” have for a large part been equipped with summer clothing apparently on the as sumption that the climate would permit this, whereas, in fact, the weather has been far too rigorous. Camp Funston’s death rate has been seven times normal. The difficulty there, General Gorgas reveals, may in part be attributed to the Insanitary lo cation, but he says this fact was well known in advance. It recalls that in selecting camp sites the war department was submitted to the strongest political pressure and that apparently decisions once made were occasionally altered by this. One of the main troubles is the incom pleteness of hospitals, particularly as to plumbing, despite no apparent reason why all buildings should not have been completed long since. The clothing matter is being rapidly remedied. Meantime, war work is likely to have a fresh impetus from the injection of new blood into the quartermaster gen eral, ordnance and coast artillery branches. The real need for a war council which the former chiefs of these bureaus now enter has not been clearly demonstrated, and the general interpretation here is that the secretary of war is making shifts to gain efficiency within. Steamer Under Convoy Is Sunk By Submarine AN ATLANTIC PORT. Dec. 19 Sinking of the British steamer City of Naples,<*3,7l4 tons, on December 5, while under convoy of destroyers, by a German submarine was reported on the arrival here today of an American steamship. The British ship was just ahead of the American ship when struck bv a torpedo. After the city of Naples was struck, destroyers dropped four deptl) bombs over the spot where the submarine was believed to have been. The American captain did not know whether these reached their mark and did not know what became of the crew of the British vessel- Two Saved from U. S. Destroyer by Germans AMSTERDAM, Dec. 18.—Two sailors were saved by the Germans from the American destroyer Jacob Jones, accord ing to an official German announcement received here today. The Jacob Jones was torpedoed arnd sunk In the war zone on December 6 and sixty-five men on board were listed as missing. Survivors reported that one American, who spoke German, was taken iway a prisoner on the submarine. One Killed When Train Crashes Into Motor Truck WARREN, Ohio, Dec. 19.—Liberty motor truck No. 7, comprising one of thirty-three Liberty motor trucks en route from Detroit to Newport News, near Braceville, Ohio, at 2 a. m. today, was struck by an Erie passenger train, resulting In the death of Frank Pappelo. Canton, Ohio, driver of the truck, and seriously injuring John Litzenburg, an assistant, of Mineral City, Ohio. 3 Rings and Bracelet FREE gOgdgjWWWgggl FALLING sickness WWiSS' b *X^•_S•‘! , •• To all «ufferer» from Hu. Kpll.pey. railing ,„ «Lul wSS£&fv& Blekaose or Morewes Trooblos will be dent AIM O“£ ™.t limi.T FRKB a Urp. bottle es W. H. Peeke’s Treat- WE TRUST I went. For thirty years, thoassnds ©f suffer* rs have used W. H. YOU I peek**a Treatment with excelhat re©oits. Giwe Expressaad P L O Rosebud PtrfumeCc.Bol 102 Woodsboro,Md | Address, W. 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