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VOL. XVIII
FBERT DEMANDS REVOLUTIONISTS RETIRE
HINDENBERG ATTEMPTING TO BRING ABOUT COMPROMISE;
U. S. RECOGNITION OF IRISH REPUBLIC ASKED IN SENATE
Shields Holds League Should
Work for lreland — Lodge
' Moves to Get Vote Friday.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Rec
ognition by the United States of the
“Irish republic” and of its right to
self determination under the League
of Nations covenant as a condition
of the Senate's ratification of the
peace treaty was proposed in the
Senate Tuesday afternoon by Sen
ator Shields, Democrat of Tennessee,
a member of the Senate Foreign Re
' lations Committee.
! A move to get unanimous consent
for a final vote Friday on ratifica
tion of the peace treaty was to be
made Tuesday in the Senate by
Senator Lodge, the Republican
leader.
All sides in the treaty fight con
ceded the vote on the resolution of
ratification embodying the Lodge
reservations would be “close.”
No senator appeared seriously dis
posed, however, to dispute the gen
eral prediction that the treaty would
be defeated again even though by a
narrow margin.
Senator Hitchcock, the administra
tion's treaty manager, persisted in
his claim that he would be able to
hold fourteen administration sena
tors in line to block ratification for
the second time on the basis of the
Lodge reservation program.
Shields’ proposal was in the form
of an amendment to the reservation
proposed by Senator Owen, Demo
crat of Oklahoma, that the United
States “understands” the ‘{protec
torate” Great Britain has assumed
over Egypt “to have been merely a
war measure to preserve the integrity
and independence of Egypt during
the war.”
The Shields amendment read:
“The United States further under
stands that in fulfillment and execu
tion of the great principle or self-de
_‘termination and equa]ity of all gov
ernments pervading and underlying
the covenant of the League of Na
tions that Great Britain will forth
with recognize the existence and po
litical independence of the Republic
of*lreland, and agree that it become
a member of the League of Nations,
with equal representation accorded
to all other sovereign and independ
ent governments.”
Gen. Wood Is Granted
60-Day Absence Leave
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Major
General Leonard Wood has asked for
a sixty-day.leave of absence and it
has been granted, Secretary of War
Baker announced this afternoon. Gen
eral Wood sought the leave on the
grounds that he has not had any ex
tended leave for three vears. Asked
if General Wood would be required to
keep in uniform i she devotes his
leave to political campaigning, Secre
tary Baker said he would grant the
general permission to adopt civilian
garb if he sought it. £
General George Bell, in ecommand of
Camp Grant, has been ordered to
temporarily take command of the
C'hicago headquarters of the Central
Division during General Woopd's leave.
Goneral Bell will retain command of
Camp Grant.
WOOD LEADING.
' MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 16.—
Gen. Leonard Wood is the winner of
the Republican preferential presiden
tial caucus held throughout Minne
sota Monday. He won in almost every
section of the State. The vote was
artremely light. ¢
In Minneapolis 20,000 votes were
cast, about one-third of the normal
number. With 21 out of 160 percincts
in the city still to be heard from, the
vote was as follows: Wood, 6819;
John, 5,740; Hoover, 4,113, and Low
den, 2,465. Many women voted.
24-Hourq{ 15d rui Tniversar News | Service
Poor Basco! A 'Gator
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Gregarious and Gay,
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But Flu Writes R.I.P.
By R. W. BRADFORD.
Gone but not forgotten is the pet
alligator of Mrs. Sam Wolf of 270
Capitol avenue. Keeping late hours
during the cold nights last week
is thought to have been the cause
of his untimely death.
His name was plain “Bds
, ¢0,”" ‘and his ancestry could be
traced no further back than to the
Everglades of Florida, but during
his seven years’ stay in Atlanta,
as a guest of Mrs. Wolf, he made
a great many friends: every child
near his home witnessed his de
parture with a tearful sigh.
Basco came to Atlanta when he was
about 3 months old. Mrs. Wolf ac
corded him all the hospitality of the
good old Southern brand. A warm pen
was made for his habitation, and all
the children in the neighborhood
were introduced to him,
The children entertained him by
feeding him choice bits of food, jab
bing his tough sides with sharp
pointed sticks and various other
little forms of amusements that are
reputed to be especially restful to
young alligators. Basco, in return,
would delight the children by open
ing his mouth very wide, wagging
his tail, and when accorded an ex
ceptional favor, or when he would
naturally feel so inadined, by emit
ting noises from his system that
the delighted children declared to
be an alligator song.
But all good things must come to
an end in one way or another. Bas
co’s end came when he wandered
from his pen one cold night last
week and slept in the garage. Rep
tilian influenza is believed to have
set in. Just what time he died
could not be learned, for Le had
been there several days before he
was discovered. The health au
authorities finally found him and
sent him to the city crematory.
Peace to his ashes!
Basco is survived by his adopted
brother, Jack, who is a small ter
rier dog.
Prejudice in Certain |
Class Rates, Says I. C. C.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
Interstate Commerce Commission to
day ruled that class and commodity
rates from Ohio and Mississippl
River crossings, Chicago and related
points, were unduly prejudicial to
Meridian, Miss., and unduly preferen
tial to New Orleans, Mobile and
Vicksburg. Class rates from Chlca
go, Cairo, St. Louis and Louisville
and rates on grain from Cairo ana
St, Louis were found unduly preju
dicial to Jackson, Miss.,, and unduly
preferential to New Orleans, Vicks
burg and Natchez.
Atlanta K. of C. to
Receive Major Degree
A number of members of the
Knights of Columbus in Atlanta will
receive the major degree in that or
der in Columbia, S. C.,, May 2. The
exemplification will be held in the
new parish hall. More than 300 can
didates will receive the fourth de
gree, f
A dinner will follow the degree
work and at the toastmaster's table
will be speakers of note from all
parts of the country. Applicants for
the degree are receiving blanks from
L.. R. McCaddon, secretary of the
Knights of Columbus community ser
vice in Columbia.
Navy Appropriation
Bill Ready for Report
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Carry
ing an appropriation of $424,450,000,
the navy appropriation bill for the
fiscal year, 1921, will be reported to
the House tomorrow from the House
Naval Affairs Committee. . This ap
propriation is over $200,000,000 less
than for the year 1920, and $300,000,-
000 less than estimated by the navy
department as necessry in 1921.
Provision for a permanent naval
personnel of 142,984 is made by the
bill, but pay appropriation is made
fore an average of 12,000 personnel
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Tentative Proposal for Rule May
Be Altered in Light of Recent
Developments in Near East
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
allied premiers have communicated to
this government the terms of a ten
tative settlement of the Turkey situa
tion, it was learned Tuesday. The
chief provisions are:
The sultan to remain in Constanti
nople.
All Turkish military forces to be
removed from Constantinople.
Recognition of the independence of
Armenia without the fixing of bound
aries.
An inter-allied commission to
maintain military control of Constan
tinople.
This government has not made re
ply to the Turkish nose. It was
learned the note was drafted before
recent events caused the entrance of
French forces into Turkish territory
and the tentative settlement may be
changed.
Pressure is being brought by reli
gious organizations to force the with
drawal of the sultan from Constan
tinople. It has been understod that
President Wilson has partially en
dorsed such a policy.
.
Champ Clark Will Not
Make Race for Senate
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.-—For
mer Speaker Champ Clark issued a
formal statement late Tuesday in
which he =aid he had concluded not
to be a candidate for the Senate from
Missouri.
“T never believed a man has any
moral right to enter a race for a
great office involving himself and
his friends in all sorts of labor and
turmoil without first viewing and
considering the whole situation,”
Clark said. “I have considered it
from every standpoint. As a result
T have concluded not to be a can
didate “for senator, thiereby swap
ping off Democratic leadership in
the House for the position of a new
senator, There is a house habit
with which I am acquainted, and a
Senate habit with which I am not
familiar., Between the two I prefer
the House. I can render the people
more service thre, I believe.”
Subcommittee Named
To Draft Shipping Act
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Sena
tor Jones of Washington, chairman of
the Senate Commerce Committee, has
appointed a subcommittee of five Re
publicans and four Democrats, to
draft shipping legislation, the com
mittee having concluded its hearing
which extended through several
weeks.
The members of the subcommittee
are Jones, Washington, chairman;
Fernald, Maine; Calger, New York;
Colt, Rhode Island and McNary,
Washington, Republicans, and Fletch
er, Florida; Chamberlain, Oregon;
‘Rannde]l, TLouisiana, and Simmons,
North Carolina, Democrats.
Urges Memorial Trees
On Bankhead Highway
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—1 n con
junction with the memorial services
here Tuesday night for the late Sen
ator John H., Bankhead of Alabama,
the American Forestry Association
sent a telegrdm to Judge A, B. Allen
of Birminghain, president of the
‘Bankhead Highway Association, urg
ing that the Bankhead highway be
made a “road of remembrance”’ by
the planting of memorial trees along
the highway in honor of the leading
goods roads boster of the country.
McCrary Wires Brother
Of His Safe Return
J. B. McCrary, Atlanta engineer re
ported Monday as missing in the
Everglades, is safe.
Asurances came Tuesday in a tele
gram he sent to his brother and as
gociate, J. A. McCrary, in Atlanta.
The wire said he had reached Mara
thon, Flay a point of communication
in the Everglades.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920
Representative Offers Bill Pro
posing Billion Dollars Credit
Secured by Holdings.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—A loan
by the United States to Germany of
£1,000,000,000 is provided in a bill
introduced in the House today by
Representative Smith of New .York.
The bill proposes that the loan be
used as a basis for re-opening trade
between the United States and Ger
many and further provides that the
administration of the loan shall be
placed with the war finance corpo
ration, Germany to pay interest at
the rate of 6 per cent per year.
The bill provides that Germany
may contract for foodstuffs and raw
materials and secure payment by
guarantees to bhe approved by the
reparations commission. It proposes
the United States government shall
extend credit to Germany in the fol
lowing manner:
The war finance corporation shall
pay the prices of such contracts as
it may approve between Germany and
any person or association engaged in
business in the United States for
supplies of foodstuffs, raw materials,
ete., hereafter purchased by the Ger
man government, and shall accept in
payment of Germany’s obligation un
der the contract the bonds of Ger
many having such security and prior
ity as is permitted by the treaty.
The bill provides the United States
may be secured by the property in
the hands of the alien property cus
todian, after deducting the amounts
necessary to compensate American
citizens for losses incurred in the
war,
. Mr. Smith says the property held
by the alien property 'custodian 1s
worth about $1,000,000,000 and the
claims of American citizens will ag
gregate between $200,000,000 and
$300,000,000. He pointed out that in
view of the fact the allies are con
templating a loan to Germany, it
would be wise for the United States
to make a loan, in order that all
German trade might not be secured
by the allies. .
“England is planning to float a loan
of three billion to Germany in a di
rect attempt to corral the German
trade and prevent the United States
from getting that trade,” said Repre
sentative Smith. “The only place
England could raise this $3,000,000,000
would be through the private invest
tors of the United States. It is up to
us to get on to this and preserve
some of the trade of Germany for
‘ourselves.”
Allies Seek to
Have Debt Waived
(By International News Service.)
~ WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
Allied nations soon will launch a
drive for the cancellation of the loans
of $10,000,000,000 made to them by
the United States during the war
and for further contributions by this
government toward internationaliza
tion of the entire war debt.
This warning was served on the
House by Representative Fess, Re
publican of Ohio, during debate on
the bill authorizing ,the United
States Grain Corporation to sell its
surplus of five million barrels of low
grade flour to Poland, Austria and
Armenia for cash or credit. Mr. Fess
is chairman of the Republican con
gressional campaign committee and
one of the recognized leaders in the
House,
The KEuropean countries, he de
clared, will demand further exten
sions of government credit before
the present Congress expires and if
the demand is granted they will de
mand another increase within four
months,
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London Claims
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Confirmation
.
Of Compromise
(By International News Service)
LOI\'DON. March 16.—" We
have confirmation that a
compromise has been reached
between the rival German gov
ernments,” the secretary to
Premier Lloyd George an
nounced today. He added that
the confirmation does not come
from Germany.
Thirty-two Members Will Attend
Installation of Athens
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Club’s Charter,
Thirty-two Atlanta Kiwanlans
agreed to go to Athens Wednesday
afternoon for the installation of the
charter of the Athens Kiwanis Club
ai the weekly luncheon in the Kim
ball House Tuesday.
R, S. Wessels, district governor, tel
egraphed the club from Gainesville
that he will give the Athéns club its
charter and arrangements have been
made to entertain guests.
Frank T. Reynolds made the prin
cipal address Tuesday. He told of
his State speaking tour for the pro
posed $50,000,000 bond issue and of
the co-operation he has received from
Kiwanis clubs.
Mr. and Mrs. Green B. Adair enter
tained with songs and sketches. Mr.
Adair offered a humorous monologue,
A duet by Mr. and Mrs. Adair con
cluded the program.
George Eubanks presided and read
several letters and telegrams. He
read a letter from Mrs. E. P. Mcßur
ney, who thanked the Kiwanis for
underwriting $5,000 worth of repairs
at the Home for the Friendless.
Attendance prizes were given to
T. H. Higginbotham of the Atlanta
Paint Company and Sherwood Ken
nedy of the Atlanta National Bank.
Mr. Higginbotham gave paper knives,
Mr. Kennedy gave a $lO savings ac
count in the Atlanta National Bank,
which was won by Charles Sciple.
Herbert Parsons Called
In Colby Hearing
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Her
bert Parsons, New York lawyer and
political leader, was a witness be
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today when it resumed
consideration of the appointment of
Bainbridge Colby as secretary of
state.
Parsons, Republican national com
mitteeman from New York, was
subponaed by the committee in con
nection with objections raised in!
New York to Colby's confirmation,
it was said.
Holstein Cow Breaks
Milk Producing Record
APPLETON, Wis.,, March 168.—A
Holstein cow, Sadie Gerben Senger
veld Dekol, owned by R, M. Harri
man of Appleton, broke the nation's
record on a thirty-day test, produc
ing 3,247 1-2 pounds of milk and
157 1-2 pounds of butter in that time,
In a wek’s test Sadie gave 115 1-2
pounds of milk a day.
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Ruth’s Diary s
Lesson in Morals
Mrs. W. H. Hart, president of the Illinois Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs of Chicago, has read he diary of Mrs. Ruth
Randall, the Chicago beauty who killed herself after shoot
ing Capt. Clifford Bluyer to death.
‘‘“The dairy of Ruth Randall,”’ says Mrs. Hart, ‘‘shows most
forcibly to my mind the truth of the old saying ‘‘No one is
altogether bad.” One can not fail to be impressed by the
recital of her early struggles to preserve her good name
and character. The diary contains many lessons.
“In this case, as in many others, we are clearly shown the
“folly of any attempt at a double standard of morals. A
single standard of right living for men and women is the
only way to prevent such tragedies as this.”’
““Ruth’s Diary’’,will appear in installments in The Georgian
and Sunday 'American beginning Thursday, March 18.
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Von Kapps Crowd, Ebert’s Group
and Spartacists in Struggle.
Civil War Still in Prospect.
NEW YORK, March 16 —(Summary
of Cables to the International News
Service) —The struggle for supre
macy in Germany has apparently re
solved itself into a miglity three cor
nered fight between the revolutionary
government of Von Kapp, the old
government lead by President Ebert
and the Spartacists.
Violent fighting is reported from
Berlin, Dresden, Essen, Hamburg, Al
tona, Leipzig and Frankfurt. Civil
war seems inevitable,
Despite conflicting reports of ne
gotiations between the revolution
ary regime and the Ebert government
at Stuttgart, the one reiiable indica
tion is that the attempt to effect a
compromisa has failed.
) ‘Phe principal phase of the situa
‘tion is the activity of the Spartacists
(Communists) who have taken ad
vantage of the confusion to intervene
with armed forces, meanwhile add
ing further pressure by widespread
strikes,
Advices indicate that at every
point whare there mas been fighting
the Spartacists were involved. The
determined nature of the struggle is
shown by the large numbers of killed
and wounded. Official figures are not
available, but press dispatches show
there were hundreds of casualties.
.~ There are unconfirmed reports that
local soviet governments have been
iproclaimed by the armed workers at
'Hamburg, in Northern Frussia, in the
Ruhr district of Western Pruussia,
'and in South Germany,
The Von Kapp regimea is holding out
in Berlin, but its zone of authority
is said to be comparatively small
"I‘h(- Ebert regime has summoned the
'N:uir»nfll Assembly at Stuttgart to
morrow in an effo:t to regain its
powers,
Congressman Asks
Status of the A. E. F.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Chalr
man Kahn of the House Military Af
fairs Committee announced today
that he will introduce a resolution
in the House today requesting the
President and Secretary of War
Baker to state the policy of this gov
errment in connection with the use
of 15,000 Ameridan troops now in
Gérman territory. The resolution
will inquire whether these troops
may he used to suppress the German
rcvolution.
Chairman Kahn said it was ap
parent there is a sentiment in Con
gress against use of American troops
to suppress the revolution and he
believes it will be best to have a def
inite statement of the policy this
government will follow.
Issued lsdly. and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
Why Reports
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l On Revolution
Are Conflicting
You may have read in an after
noon paper Monday that the fae
tions in Germany had agreed to
call off the generai strike.
The strike, however, still is in
force,
You may have read in a morn
ing paper Tuesday that the Ger
man revolution had collapsed.
The German revolution, however,
has not yet collapsed.
The conflict between Monday's
reports and Tuesday news may
leave you somewhat mystified.
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Rut here are some of the fac
tors that cause conflicting reports
and prevent the publication of the
truth:
The German revolutionists, who
seized the government in Berlin
Saturday, have established a cen
sorship which permits the passing.
out only of such news as pleases
them.
The old Ebert, or constitutional,
government is at Stuttgart, in full
control, and is passing out only
such news as pleases it.
The British government in Lon
don is telling now and then what
it wants to happen,
The French government in Paris
is telling what.it wants to happen.
Thesge factors, as you may sur
‘mise, are playing fast and loose
with the truth.
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Here are the likely truths:
1. The Von Kapp revolutionary
government has not collapsed, but is
finding the going harder than it
expected,
2. Negotiations for a compromise
were under way, but were hroken
off, each faction suspecting the
-other of greater weakness than the
other will admit.
3. A lot of stret fighting is going
on throughout the old empire, with
the likelihood that a fine little civil
war will develop.
4. The British fomented the rev
olutionary movement, just as they
fomented the Russian revolution,
and the thing has got out of hand
just as Kerensky and later bolshe
vism played ducks and drakes with
Sir George Buchanan’s scheme to
substitute a grand duke for poor
old Nicholas. 5
5. It 18 quite apparent Lloyd
George is befuddled. He told the
House of Commons Mcnday after
noon the revolutionists held thirty
five cities and were growing
stronger in power. Tuesday his
secretary announces the revolution
has collapsed. B C.
Carl Chupp Speeding to Bedside
of Suffering Father
at Lithonia,
Flying from an aviation field at De
troit in a fast plane, Carl Chupp was
on his way Tuesday to the bedside
of his father at Lithonia, a few miles
from Atlanta.
J. L. Chupp of Lithonia, former
member of the House of Representa
tives and president of the De Kalb
County Board of Kducation, is crit
jcally ill of pneumonia at his home.
His son, Carl, who is in the aviation
service at Detroit, was telegraphed
Monday to come home at once,
The fastest train was not consid
ered fast enough by the son, accus
tomed to the high speed of an air
plane, and he quickly obtained per
mission to use a government plane
for the flight home. He was report
ed to have started at once on his
flight to see his father.
Internal Revenue
Cashier Is Robbed
(By International News Service.)
SEATTLE, Wash., March 16.—Two
men held up R. E. Stafford. cashier
of the internal revenue officer here
this morning, forced him to open the
safe, took $20,000 in currency and
escaped
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General Strikers Not Only Oppose
Von Kapp, but Call Ebert
~ Despicable for Fleeing Berlin.
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~ (By International News Service.)
. THE HAGUE, March 16.—The final
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terms of the Ebert government to the
‘revolutionary regime at Berlin are
that Von Kapp and his supporters
must retire from Berlin and the other
towns they have occupied without
‘making any further trouble, said a
dispatch from Stuttgart. These terms
‘were adopted at a cabinet council.
| By FRANK MASON,
- Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8,
BERLIN, March 16.—Street fi_..t
ing broke out in Berlin during the
night. Nine persons were killed in
clashes between ths revolutionary
!laldierl and crowds. Many were
wounded.
The fighting started when troops
supporting the Von Kapp revolution
%ary movement began di#bersing
strikers. The general strike con
‘tinues.
~ Field Marshal von Hindenburg has
written a letter to Imperial Chan
}ccllor von Kapp advising him to
‘withdraw his troops from Berlin
‘and abide by the néw German con
stitution. He has sent another let
ter to President Ebert at Stuttgart,
‘informinq him of the communication
to Von Kapp, and advising Ebert to
reach an immediate compromise with
Von Kapp on the calling of a gen
eral election.
A crowd of Berlin workers sur«
rounded a detachment of lixty‘nlt
diers and disarmed them.
(By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, March 16.—Fifty
persons have been kiiled and 150
wounded in sanguinary street fight«
ing in Leipzig and Frankfurt, ac
cording to a report from the latwer
city this afternoon,
At Dresden the Spartacists storm
ed the postoffice building but were
deféated by armed Socialists belong=«
ing to three different factions. The
Socialists .2t Dresden joined the
Ebert troops and supported the po
lice and garrison in restoring order,
Numerous violent encounters are
reported from South Germany where
the authorities generally are adher=
ing to the Ebert government.
(By International News Service.)
STUTTGART, March 16.—~“The
constitutional government refuses to
negotiate with the heads of the reve
lutionary regime at Berlin,” said an
official announcement today. It fol«
lows, in full:
“The heads of the Berlin regime are
trying to make the people believe
they are negotiating. The constitu
tionalists refuse to negotiate with
Von Kapp.
“Negotiations can only occasion
distrust and confusion and prolong
the disorders. The only solution is
for Von Kapp, who has proclaimed
himself chancellor, to resign unton
ditionally.”
The Ebert government announces
it is safejuarding the lines of commu
nication. Colleagues of Ebert ex
pressed belief the Berlin regime would
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THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Clou% tonight and
Wednesday, probably rain.
Temperatures: 6 a. m., 52;
8 a. m, 57; 10 a. m,, 63; 1“
noon, 68; 1 p. m, 69; 2 p. m, 7‘»
Sunrise, 5:47; sunset, 5:46. o Jou
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