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PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY. MAY 11, I9IS
It to safer to listen tn fooUnh tMnpi than to
utter them.
rpHEIlE In no ftltuntlnn now existing he
- twecn Germany and (ho United Stutcri
that ennnot lto solved ly diplomacy. There
does not exist n,n Inovltablo casus belli. Our
national Intercuts nro wrnppcd up In peace
not war. Tho pnpalonn of tho mob will not
dictate tho policy of tills Government. Its
course will bo mapped out by responslblo
men, whoso heads aro cool, who can think
clearly and who nro not pnrtlsnn. There will
be no war unless tho mnb spirit prevails. It
IsJ tho duty of every cood citizen, whatever
his party and whntever his prejudices, to do
what ho may to check that mob spirit This
Is a Government of common sense and not
a Government of hysteria.
An Admiralty of Excuses
THE British Admiralty warned the Lusl
tanla of the presence of hostile subma
rines. But Mr. Churchill explains that ho
Wns without resources to furnish it with
nrmed protection. That Is a fatal admission.
It means that KtiRland must leave her mer
chantmen exposed and let them trust to
luck.
Thero Is no control of the seas In such a
course. It will do England little good to ruin
tho trado of Germany If Jicr own Is ruined
also. That Is what her navy Is for, the pro
tection of her trade. If It Is unable to per
form that function, then qertnlnly tho Em
pire has fallen on grievous days. But most
Englishmen will conclude that the situation
la not duo to any lack of competency In tho
navy, but to a very obvious Incompetency
In Its management.
"Whero aro tho Blakes and Nelsons? Tho
Ttevonge, In days gone by, fought a whole
Spanish fleet. There was dnsh and daring
then In English fjeets. No odds were too
gren' for them. They saw their work and
did It; they did not wasto time In explaining
why they could not do things. England
has the ships and men, but gravely needs a
better Admiralty.
Automobiles Have Some Rights
rpHEBE will bo no Increase In automobile
JL Ilcenso fees this year, tlmnks to tho com
mon sense of tho House of Representatives.
If It Is necessary to Increaso tho fund avail
able for highway Improvements somo other
way must bo found than by putting a
heavier tax on motor vehicles. It is pos
sible to nrguo for a special tax on horses
because their hoofs injure tho highways.
There is not a small town In tho Com
monwealth In which ovldeneo cannot bo
found of tho damago that tho horses havo
done to tho roads. Beside almost overy
hitching post thero Is a hole stamped out
by steel-shod hoofs. It gathers water when
It rains and Is a mud puddle after tho
Shower and nn offenso to tho sight all tho
time. But no ono will ever seriously think
of taxing; horses for tho privilege of using
the roads.
Tho automohllo Is so common as a busi
ness necessity that It has ceased to be a
rich man's toy. Tho tendency of taxation,
therefore, must be toward lower rates rather
than higher. Tho House of Representa
tives really represented tho most advanced
sentiment on this subject when It rejected,
by a vote of two to one, the proposition to
raise the license fees.
He Died Like a Gentleman
IF WE may accept as accurate the defini
tion of a gentleman ns one who always
forgets himself and never forgets nny one
else, then Alfred G. Vanderbllt went to. his
death Justifying his right to the honorable
title. As the ship was sinking he was seen
handing his life belt to a woman without
one. He was willing to take tho chance of
Ettlng another, but hlB first thought was
for tho Hafety of those who needed such pro
tection as It wok In his power to extend.
The most splondld traits of humanity
manifested themselves In thn great tragedy
brought about by the moat brutal exercise
of power In the history of modern civiliza
tion, and they shlno luminously by contrast
with, the blackness of the background be
fore which they were displayed.
Another Try for London
IT IS generally believed In Germany that
the date has been fixed for a raid of air
ships upon London, when bombs are to be
dropped upon the city from the sky, and
German sympathizers on the ground are to
starf 'es simultaneously In three or four
hundied places.
But whether the date is definitely fixed or
not there Is no doubt that the raid Is In
tended. The appearance of airships at the
J mouth or tne Thames several months ago
Lj- WM a, reconnolterlnff expedition, and ln
xenqea aiso to test me amiuy of the airmen
,to reach the British coast. The raid on Mon
day, wheji a fleet of Zeppelins and aero
planes flew up the Thames valley from
Southend to within 12 miles of London itself,
dropping; bombs on the way, was also
tufty a tcoutlne expedition to familiarize
the men who are to do the work with the.
nature of the country and With the land
marks to be followed jn the final desnt,of
a grat aerial fleet upon the British capital
There has Un a disposition outstda of
Girmmny to regard thi talK of the effective-r.-
m of tfeA tr cit Xur ouytkiisy but seeut
duty as mere bluster and bluff. But the Ger
mans have succeeded In bringing their under
sea cruft to a. state of perfection which leads
the observer to believe that they havo the
mechanical ability to perfect tho airship
also, and to make It hb destructive when
operating above the land as the submarine
Is beneath tho waters. So wo must await
the new horrors of a humanly contrived hell
on earth.
Stand by the President
THE way to stand by the President Is to
stand by him. That means not to goad
him. It means, too, that whatever he does
he must have tho backing of tills people.
"Our country! May she nlways bo In the
right; but our country, right or wrong!"
means more than taking up arm when she
engages In battle. It means to bo for her,
patiently, fervently, whole-heartedly when
sho stands as the cornerstone of peace and
sanity In n world gono mad with passion.
It la an easy thing to rush Into war. Any
nation can do It. But to stand four-square
with reason, unswayed by fury, and hold
strong to peace, that any nation cannot do,
America must.
Tho President Is not going to unleash tho
dogs of war until every rccourso for pcaco
nt his command has been exhausted. Ho is
not going to make demands of Gurmany that
cannot bo sustolncd. He Is not going to do
nny of tho wild nnd furious things which the
passionate aro urging him to do. While Eu
rope Is yet a groaning cxnmplo of tho idiocy
of war, ho will not drive this nation Into tho
sclf-samo shambles. Why urge hlm to nnd
why Inflame tho people? All leaders of men
havo on their shoulders today a fearful ra
uponsiblllty. They must counsel coolness,
not heat.
Wo nro already sick with horror. What
man dare advocate that wo multiply tenfold
tho anguish? Wo aro unprepared for war
and tho national Intelligence shrinks from it.
Not that wo will not fight, for our courago
Is undisputed, but that we will not Join In an
orgy of carnage until reason hart exhausted
Itself and thero Is no recourso left but arms.
Tho temptation to leap Into tho abyss is
great. Tho provocation is great. For weaker
causes nations havo entered the lists'. But
we, thank Providence, havo been taught In a
finer school. Wo have learned patlcnco nnd
have become skilled In self-restraint. Wo
know bow to listen tn both sides. In be
tween tho partisans, tn tho mlddlo of the
road, stand tho great majority of Americans;
willing and ready tn trust tho nation's honor
to the President, anxious to glvo him their
full moral support, whatever his decision.
There Is tho true patriotism to stand with
him even at the risk of Jeers, to back him up
If ho undertakes tho harder task of preserv
ing peace. Havo dono with tho mob spirit; .
It has no placo In this crisis. On domestic
policies men mny differ, but they must stand
together ns ono in support of the nation's
foreign policy. That is tho function of
patriotism.
To stand by tho President now Is to be a
good American. ,
Heathen Nations Compose Their Differences
THE world at least will be spared a war
between Japan and China. It apparontly
has been averted. Nor does It motter much
how this result was brought about. It Is
comforting to know that even If Christian
nations cannot restrain themselves from sav
age combat, heathen nations can. China,
acriulescent and sensible, is n living proof
that tho wholo world has not gono mad.
The Great Adventure
SHALL never know what was pass
W
ing in tho mind of Charles' Frohman
when ho remarked to a young woman beside
him on tho deck of tho sinking Imsitania,
"Why fear death? It is tho most beauti
ful adventure In life."
Tho young woman was saved and Kroh
nuin was lost. Ho may or may not havo
been awate of tho fato before him. Ho may
havo been trying to reassuro tho young
woman, or ho may have been expressing tho
philosophy of his life. But whatever his
purpose, ho expressed the sentiment which
nil philosophy nnd all religion have striven
to Impress upon tho mind.
The feeling that death docs not end all Is
well nigh universal! But exactly what Is it
that comos nftcr? The Buddhists say that It
Is ono thing, tho Mohammedans another and
the Christians still a different thing. But
to all It Is a great adventuro Into tho un
known, even though they may have different
theories about its nature. Kcar of death Is
due largely to tho animal Instinct of self
preservation, but tho reason has overruled
that fear In many notable Instances, and
men havo started out on the adventurous
Journey between tho two worlds with a smile
on their faces and with confidence in their
hearts. There were doubtless many other
brave men on the Lusltanla who would have
uttered tho same views that Mr. Frohman
expressed If tho listener had seemed to need
reassuring.
These are days when every man should try
to keep his head.
And Mr. Bryan will sign the note which
the President will write.
They had to put up a guard about the big
gest American battleship as he navigated in
Syracuse,
Admiral Benson knows exactly what ought
to be done to the Delaware River, and he la
now In a position to make his knowledge ef
fective, TJie Delaware shipyards will be busy for a
while longer. The Cramps have Juat secured
contracts for three new vessels, to cost
JS.000,000.
' A hundred thousand dollars In gold for the
Belgian relief fund went down with the Lusltanla-
But what do the submarines care for
Belgian relief?
This is soft pedal week for the suppression
of eupernuous noises, and every patriot will
take particular pain tq put the softest pos
sible pedal on war talk.
John P. Connelly la not pleated with the
attention which he receives from the news
papers, yet there are men who hire press
sgnU to get publicity, and nothing dis
pleases them so much as to have the papers
ignore them.
THE GRAVEYARD OF
THE SEVEN SEAS
King Neptune's Appalling Toll of
Human Lives Famous Ocean Dis
astersShips That Sailed Into
Eternal Silence.
Dy EDGAR MELS
MS
rNV years ago n great poet npostro-
hlzed the ocean In words of fluent
music. Ho bewailed man's helplessness.
"Ten thousand fleets sail over thoo In vain,"
"Man's control stops with tho shoro," he
xvrote. And the tcrrlblo disaster In St.
George's Channel, In which the mighty Lusl
tanla went to tho ocean's depths, bears him
out.
We all rrrall tho horrors of the Titanic dis
aster. Even the burning of tho OeneraJ Slo
cum In tho East River, New York, with Its
1000 victims, most of them women and chil
dren, Is still fresh In our memories. But there
are other tragedies of the sea of tho dimmer
past, nbout which time haH woven tho glam
our of romance. What school child does not
remember tho pathetic story of Theodosla
Burr, who sailed from her homo In tho
Southland to Join Aaron Burr, then In New
York? What became of her what her fato?
To this day the deepest mystory surrounds
her last hours. Was sho captured by pl
ratp", ns gossip of her day had It? Did the
vessel bearing her go down? No one knows.
Mysterious Disappearance
But there aro other mysterious disappear
ances chronicled In the annals of mnrine dis
asters. On March 11, 1841, the steamship
President, the Lusltanla of her day, steamed
from Now York for Liverpool with 1.16 pas
sengers aboard. Tho days passed, nnti no
word was received from or of her. There
wero no cables nnd wireless In those days,
nnd anxiety grow by leaps and bounds. All
kinds of rumors wero rife sho had been
seen sho was safo but to this day tho only
cluo to her fato was n noto contained 'In a
bottle. The note, written by Tyrono Power,
nn actor (not tho comedian of tho present
era), said that the ship was sinking.
Thirteen years later, on Match 1, the City
of Glasgow left the Mersey, bound for Phila
delphia with 111 saloon passengers, 2flJ steer
ago passengers and n crow of 7(5, a total of
4S0. Tho days grew Into weeks, and April
arrived, but the steamship was not reported.
On May 10 tho owners received a message at
Liverpool from London thnt a ship of her de
scription had been sighted by an arriving
vpsfcI somo tlmo previously, making for tho
Azores nnd apparently crippled. Hopo re
vived again, until exhaustive Inquiry dis
closed thnt Ibis wnw another hoax, and that
nil roncerned in her safety hnd been sub
jected to cruel and needless suspense,
Only two years later, on January 2.1, 1856,
tho Collins liner Pacific left Liverpool for
New York with 245 persons on board. Sho
was ono of tho crack flyers of her day, built
for tho express purpos-o of capturing tho rec
ord of the fleetest ocean greyhound, for the
era of transatlantic racing was then dawn
ing. What luckless fate befell this splondld
vessel, tho finest triumph of shipbuilding to
thnt date, can only bo conjectured. Whether
storm. Ice, derelict or Internal explosion
wrought her ruin Is untold. The catastropho
to her consort, tho Arctic, eighteen months
previously, which sank from collision with a
collier off Cape Rnco nnd carried down with
her 3.12 persons, cannot strictly bo classed
among mysterious wrecks, but tho two
tragedies wero tho prlmo causo of putting
tho Collins Lino out of business.
Tho following years brought a dozen more
mysteries of tho deep. It was not until 1S70
that tho world was again aroused to tho hor
ror of wholesalo deaths. Tho Inman liner
City of Boston sailed from tho city bearing
her nnmo to Halifax, arriving thero throo
days later and sailing again on January 28.
Ono hundred and ninety-one human beings
vanished with the ship.
Women and Children First
Still disappearances aro not tho only form
of disaster to hhlps. But In most Instances
tho rule "women nnd children first" Is ob
served. On February 26, 1852, in Algoa
Bay. Cape Colony, South Africa, tho troop
ship Birkenhead, carrying British soldiers
and their families, struck a reef and went
down. Six hundred men died bravely, but
all tho women nnd children wero saved. From
this orglnated tho "Birkenhead drill,"
through which tho weaker aro sent to safety
first.
Tho largest loss of llfo recorded In nny
modern sea disaster was ono on December
21, 1811, when tho British ships St. George,
Defense and Hero were stranded during n
hurricane near Jutland and 2000 lost their
lives. Next In number was the Titanic, with
1G35; tho Sultana, with 1100; General Slocum
and tho Japanese steamship Klckemaru,
with 1000 each; Princess AIlco sunk In a col
lision In the River Thames, 700; Norge,
stranded, with 700; another steamship of
tho same name foundered In mldocean with
nbout ns many.
The Sultana horror was one of the great
est In Inland shipping history. It was ob
scured by the assassination of President Lin
coln nnd tho public, aside from those Imme
diately interested, paid llttlo attention to the
catastrophe, In which 1100 lost their lives.
In all times. In all climes, tho vast depths
of the sea claim their moiety of humanity.
The toll must bo paid so long as men go
down to the sea. And human Ingenuity
capable of the Impossible finds that Its con
trol of the ocean "stops with the shore"
Neptune la still king!
THE PLEDGE
From th Nw York Sun,
In common Justice to the President the fol
lowing form of pledge or promise Is proposed
by The Bun for the serious consideration of
all concerned!
"In caee war between the United States and
Germany and her Allies should reault from the
courts now taken by President Wilson's Ad
ministration with regard to the German mas
sacre of noncombatant American passengers
on the British ship Lusltanla, I, , an
American citizen by birth Tor naturalisation,
pledge my entire fortune, f required, and my
life, If needed, for the prosecution of hostllU
ties. I promise, on my honor, to put my per
son at the disposition of the United States
Government for military or naval service im
mediately after the declaration of war or the
beginning of a state of war thus Induced."
We maintain that any cltlien willing to
back his sentiments with a pledge of this
character la entitled to demand of the Presi
dent Immediate action leading to war. He Is
qualified -to urge the Administration to lose
not an instant in swinging wide open the
doors OI tne uempie ot uanus. j
PRESIDENT WILSON, HELMSMAN
Hirvey. in the North Araflca n trior.
It is not too much to say In truth, and not less
than should be said In fairness and grateful ap
preciation, that the guidance of our Ship of
State by Wdrow Wilson and Robert Lansing
through the whirling pools of this European
conBlct has never, tn essential sagscity. reso
lution and vtltnc4 been surpassed In the hj
tory cf the KepuMto.
"IF THOSE EUROPEAN SHIPS OF STATE HAD ONLY A SKIPPER UKE MINE-j
-ssWteSr :
SCOKN OF THE FIEST SUBMARINES
New Mode of Sea Fighting, Which Was Denounced as Unsports
manlike and Revolting, Originated in the
American Revolution.
By ROBERT
IT
AS the submarine been vindicated? Tho
answer depends, perhaps, on whether tho
question refers to naval policy or tho ethics
of warfare, though, In tho very earliest days
of tho submarine, objections wero raised on
both accounts. A number of years ago a
writer In a British naval paper said: "Tho
submarine craft 1b a miracle of Ingenuity,
though Nelson nnd his hearts of oak, fight
ing only on deck, In God's frco air and with
'tho meteor flag of England' fluttering over
head, would havo loathed and scorned her
burglarious, nroa-sneak dodges down below."
In tho development of tho submarine there
Is tho same romance which is to bo found
In tho other stories of scientific Invention,
but tho romnnce, from tho very first, has
been well mixed with execration. In Eng
lnnd, France and America, whero It orig
inated tho piospectlve mode of warfaro
which should utlllzo the diving boat was stig
matized as "revolting to every noblo princi
ple," "dastardly," "dishonest nnd cowardly."
This long opposition to tho submarine on
moral grounds is an Interesting fact to con
sider In connection with military nnd naval
sportsmanship. Thero havo been other ob
jections, of course. In 1802 M. St. Aubln
asked; "What will become of ijavles, and
whero will sailors be found to man ships1 of
war, when It 1b a physical .certainty that they
may at any moment bo blown Into tho air
by means of diving boats, against which no
human foresight can guard them?"
It was an American who Inaugurated tho
era of submarine warfare, and up to tho
present European conflict It was only in
wars In which . America has engaged that
submersible or diving torpedoboats bore any
prominent part. Tho names associated with
tho development of underwater fighting craft
are mostly thoso of Americans David Bush
nell, Robert Fulton, John P, Holland nnd
Simon Lake, Though France added a sub
marine to Its navy eight years before the
United States purchased the Holland, Eu
rope received Its ldeaa from America, and
Germany has been accused of Infringing upon
the Holland patents.
Tho First Divine Boat
Bushnell was the first Inventor to combine
in his design submarine navigation with tor
pedo warfare, and his Invention, crude
though It was, was the embryo of the mod
ern diving torpedoboat. It haa been mis
takenly aald that the submarine is the child
of the surface torpedoboat. Bushnell devised
cases filled with explosives, so arranged as
to go off at a fixed time by clockwork; and
for affixing these cases to the sides of ves
sels he Invented the first boat capable of div
ing beneath the waves.
In 177 ho attempted to blow up the British
frigate Eagle by fastening an explosive
case on its bottom, and In 1777 he tried to
destroy the man-of-war Cerberus by means
of a towing torpedo. He failed, according to
a naval historian, because of the lacK of
skill of the operator and not because of any
defect in the apparatus. Though no Injury
was done to the ships, three of the crew of
a prize schooner astern of the Cerberus,
In hauling one of the, drifting torpedoes on
board, were killed by Its explosion.
After Bushnell came Robert Fulton. It
was shown that his torpedoes could sink
ships, but in actua) warfare his diving tor
pedoboats accomplished nothing After an
unsuccessful attack: by one of Fulton's un
derwater craft on the British warship Ra
mm!, Sir Thomw Wardy, mntifar of
HILDRETH
tno North American station, notified tho
President that ho had ordered on board tho
Ramtlllcs n hundred prisoners of war, who.
In tho event of the effort to destroy the
ship by torpedoes or other Infernal Inven
tions being successful, would share the fate
of himself and crew."
In a book published In London in 1818, tho
author, James Kelly, commented with great
severity on "somo Infamous and Insidious
attempts to destroy tho British men-of-war
upon tho coasts of America by torpedoes and
other explosive machinery." Tho reference
Is to Incidents of tho War of 1812.
Exploit of the "David"
In only ono Instance prior to tho outbreak
of tho European war did an underwater ves
sel ever succeed In sinking a hostllo craft In
actual warfare, and oven then It was being
navigated In tho nwash condition and not
completely submerged. This occurred on
February 37, 1861, when tho Confederate div
ing boat David, armed with a spar torpedo,
sank tho Federal frigate Housatonlc off
Charleston.
Tho submarines of tho Revolution, the War
of 1812 and tho Civil War were crude affairs
compared with tho submarines operating to
day In European waters, but they were tho
forerunners of the mode of sea fighting which
Is now giving tho world so many tragical
surprises. The torpedo Itself haa undergone
a remarkable transformation since Bushnell
Invented the explosive case.
The submarine has been used In some of
tho third-rate South American wars. In the
war between Chill and Peru a, torpedo was
launched from a submarine only to 'back
through the water and nearly destroy the
vessel from which It was projected, this
back-firing belng,due to the unimproved state
of tho gyroscope, or balance control, within
the destructive missile.
DREAMS AND ACTION
From the New nepubllc.
It Is a pathetlo weakness of human effort that
In order to act at all its dreams must o often
outstrip the possibilities of Its action Let him
P" himself on nis rea8m as h2 may hthe
mind of the stancheat realist tires and nags be
fore the mere extenslveness of reality, (W S!
slrea are too passionate nnd our pa lence too
Immature for us ever to know, or be willing to
-.uo W Wii is wean and the
AMUSEMENTS
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CASINO. WuattVtUo
Inertia of the world almost Irresistible, liecauit
our mind is finite and detail Infinite, we mustl
summarize and make pictures for ourselvei anil
tplial riltt I ma frlnnMnn nikon nA Irnnm It ! Ai
celvlng us. 3
It Is only when certain moods and grievance-;
lend themselves to a fantasy In which they cm
be grouped and expressed that men ever musterlfi
uic ailBUBUl LO Hlll'mpi muicill UCUUI1. DUl Iiw
matter how profound the revolution. Its rejulu'
are lnvarably less magically entrancing thai;
tho myth which proflgurcd them. 'J
BULLET-STOPPING DEVICES , )
From Tld Dlts. t
Five feet of clay, thrco feet of loose erta
or two nnd a half feet of sand will stop a mod
ern rifle bullet at the closest range; but, curl.'
oualy enough, as tho layman may think, ram
ming earth hard reduces Its resisting power,
and high velocity bullets have less penetrstlca
In ftnnfl nt ehnrt tVio.i nt mAHIiim fAntft.
Eighteen Inches of sand between boards Is bu!-' J
let nrnnf. nml nl. Inh.a nt icaII hnllt hrlck!-.
work.
Soft wood, like fir. across tho grain, Is bullet.
proof at point-blank range if 48 Inches thlcfca
or at EOO yards If half as thick. Similarly. HJ
Inches of hardwood, like oak. Is polnt-bUokl
proof, or 15 Inches at BOO yards. Half an Incfcj
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Inch Of hftrrl Kt0Al ny n Ofth fit nn Inch flf 8M
clal steel la bulletproof. So ore six InchM oil
sningie. id inches of coal or, as some peop
may be surprised to know, eight feet j
snow. j
IF YOU COULD HAVE A PERFECT DAY
If you could have a perfect day fl
i ureara 01 wnen your me were acus,
Would you choose one nil clear, all gay
If you could have a perfect day
The airs above the wide greenway
Sheer virgin blue with crystal sun?
If you could have a perfect day
To dream of when your life were done.
Or would you have It April's way,
Haphazard rain, haphazard sun,
TllirtnA nml aneM .Ia.i. n..4 crnV
Dyed like these hours' own work and plan '3
All oUa, ...,tu -.-, - a 1 l-, !
Haphazard pain, haphazard fun
If you could haVA a nrfeot rlnv
To dream of when your life were done! J
Edith Wyatt, In Fwtry. j
AMUSEMENTS
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Photoplays-.Continuous
10 A. M. to 11:30 r M.
DUSTIN FARNUM
In the Romantlo Drama
i "CAPT. COURTESY"
ADDED ATTRACTION
WEBER & FIELDS
IN A REAL, FUNNV COMEDY
"TWO OF THE FINEST'H
B. F. KEITH'S THEATRE
CHESTNUT AND TWELFTH STREETS 4
BILL OF INTERNATIONAL STARS
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GARRICK 10c, 15c, 25c
CONTINUOUS 11 A. M. TO 11 P. M.
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Witherspoon Hall, Tonight, Sj
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