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LXXXVI—No. 222 12 PAGES HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1917. Single Copy,. 2 Cents HOME EDITION V
DAUPHIN DRAFT
MEN ASSIGNED
TO INFANTRY
Central Pennsylvania to Make
Up 316 th Regiment at
Camp Meade
<EEP FRIENDS TOGETHER
\uling Decides Upon What
Branch of Service Men
; Will Serve In
All men sent to Camp Meade this
veek by the three Dauphin county
iraft exemption boards will be as
ilgned to the infantry branch of the
lervice, it was learned to-day. The
ncn will be organized into what will
>e known as the Three Hundred and
iixteenth Infantry, to be composed of
nen from Dauphin and surrounding
:ounties.
Relatives of drafted men, accord
ng to army officers, can save the
fovernment an enormous amount of
letail work and incidentally insure
>rompt delivery of mail to the boys
n camp by including in the address
>n all letters the number of the
raining battalion, regiment or troop
;iven in the official list.
Publication of the list below shows
or the first time tne achievements
if the aVmy general staff in complet
ng the , military organisation of
Irafted men long before they are
icti'.lly called into service.
Each man in the 45 per cent, of
liiotas from local draft boards
hroughout the state called for servi
ce on September 19 has been as
ligned to a certain unit. Schedules
or the housing of the men at Camp
Meade also have been prepared and
officers of each unit have been se
ected. Most of the officers have
>een undergoing an intensive course
>f training for weeks at Camp Meade.
Men Will Xot Bo Scattered
It is possible to announce also for
he first time that draft and congres
ional districts have been recognized
>y the War Department in the or
anization of all regiments and train
ng battalions. In other words, there
nil be no scattering of drafted men.
Tnits have been organized on geo
raphical Hnt-s, so that with few ex
eptions young men who have been
leighbors and friends for years will
Ind themselves in the same bat
allons or troop at Camp Meade, and
ater in the new national army.
The Assignments
The list showing distribution of
raft troops who will report for dutv
September 19 at Camp Meade from
'entral Pennsylvania is as follows:
Northumberland countv, local
'oards 1. 2, 3 and 4, Training Bat
alion 6.
Schuylkill county, local boards 1,
, 3 and 4, Training Battalion 6.
Schuylkill county, local boards 1.
, 3. 4, 6 and 7. Training Battalion
0; local board 5. Training Battalion
Tnion county. Training Battalion 5.
Rnvder county. Training Bat
alion 5.
Mifflin county. Training Battalion 5.
Juniata county, Training nat
al ion 5.
Perry county. Training Battalion 5.
Dauphin county, local boards 1, 2
nd 2, One Hundred and Sixteenth
nfnntry.
York county, local boards 1, 2 and
. Three Hundred and Sixteenth In
antr.v.
York city, local boards 1 and 2,
'hree Hundred and Sixteenth Infan-
Lancaster county, local boards 1,
. 3 and 4, Three Hundred and Six
eenth Infantry.
I.ebanon county, local boards 1 and
, Training Battalion 11.
Cumberland county, local boards
and 2. Training Battalion 4.
Franklin county, local boards 1
nd 2, Training Battalion 4.
Adams county. Training Bat
ilion 4.
It is estimated that nearlv 10,000
len will report for duty at Camp
leade September 19. The task of
orfing'mail addressed to individuals.
*ith no other direction than the
amp, will require scores of clerks,
nd their work can be lightened if
elatives will add the number or
ther designation of the unit as
iven above to the addresses on all
?tters.
In addition to the draft units
ted there will be a "First Provision
legiment of Infantry." composed of
e-roes. Recruits from all draft
oards will be included in this regi
lent.
THE CIVIC CLUB'S
SECOND FLY—MEASURING DAY
SEPTEMBER 29
_ 9 to 12.
Prizes awarded: 5 cents a pint
for all flies.
THE WEATHER
For HnrrlftlMirK and vicinityi Fair
to-nlfcht and Tuesday; xllKhtly
warmer Tuesday.
For Kastrrn Pennsylvania: Fair
to-night and Tuesday; slightly
warmer Tuesday; Kentle to
moderate north winds.
Klver
The Susquehanna river and all Ita
tributaries will fall slowly or
remain stationary. A stage of
about 3.8 feet Is Indicated for
Harrlsburg Tuesday morning.
General Conditions
The barometer Is high In north
ern and central districts east of
the Rocky Mountains, with the
crest of highest pressure over
the Great Lakes; It is low, with
unsettled weather along the
-South Atlantic and Fast Gulf
coasta and rain was falling In
Northeastern Florida nt time of
observation this morning.
Temperature; 8 a. m,
-"ua; Rises, Bi4o a. m.; sets, 6:00
p. m.
Moon I Xew moon, September 27.
River stage: 2.0 feet above low
water mark.
„ Yesterday's Weather
Highest temperature, UN.
■ ■owest temperature, BIS.
Mean temperature, 2.
Kormai temperature, 65,
CERTIFY QUOTAS
TO LEAVE THIS
DISTRICT SOON
Appeal Hoard Grants Exemp
tion of Married Men; Rig
Farewell to Those Going
FIREMEN TO RE IN LINE
Celebration For Men of Na
tional Army Will Re
Riggest Yet
I This morning the Middle Judicial
[ District Appeal Board certified back
: to all the district boards the forty
five per cent, quota required by the
recent order of the War Department.
! This means that every district work
j ing under jurisdiction of the Middle
i District Board will furnish its full
quota of men on Wednesday and
I
Thursday.
The board examined twenty-five
appeals this morning. Twelve de
i cisions of the Juniata local board
1 were reversed. In each instance, the
| local board refused to exempt the
| men because, while the men were
| married and had wives dependent
; upon them, they had no children. Re
: cent statements from President Wil
! son have influenced the boards in
their decision that wives who may
become dependent upon their com
munities should not tys left without
a husband to support them.
Two farmers in Lebanon county
had their claims refused. The board
held their work could be car
ried on by others. Thirteen cases
were referred back to the district
boards lor additional information.
1,000 Cases Need Attention
Directors of a school board not
far from this, city asked that a
teacher be exempted, it is unlikely
that this appeal will receive favor
able action. The tendency of the
board in cases of this nature is that
except in unusual cases, men who
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25,000 Ironworkers Strike
When 50 Per Cent. Raise
in Wage Scale Is Denied
By Associated Press
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 1". —Ap-
proximately 25,000 iron workers and
metal trades mechanics engaged in
war emergency construction in San
Francisco and bay cities, went on
strike at 9 o'clock to-day, follow
ing rejection of their demands for a!
fifty per cent, increase in wages. The
walkout in more than 100 plants was!
carried out without a hitch, it was re- j
ported.
Feverish eleventh hour efforts to j
avert the strike by employes and rep-i
resentatives of the United States
Shipping Board failed. Proposals to
arbitrate on a basis of ten per cent,
increase offered had been rejected by
the conference committee of the iron
trades council, composed of twenty
five unions, on whose authority the
strike was declared.
The walkout affects more than
$130,000,000 in government ship
building and engine construction
contracts and automatically tied up
other construction works. Settlement
of the strike, declared to be San
Francisco's largest industrial trou
ble, is entirely in the hands of the
Federal government, employers an
nounced.
•Intends to Walk ,
From Here to Annville
to Prove He's no Slacker
To prove that he isn't a slacker,
Harry H. Southall, 917 North Seven
teenth street will leave this evening
at 5 o'clock on a walk to Annville.
Southall has been in Cleveland for
two weeks working and had been
notified at his home in Rexmont toj
report September 6 at Annville fori
examination. His wife wrote several
letters to him telling him of this,
but he claims he did not receive
them.
Ten days after the notice is re
ceived if the one who is drafted does
not report he is considered a slacker.
Southall says he is not a slacker and
will walk to Annville where he was
notified to report for his physical ex
amination.
He told a reporter this afternoon,
that he has enough money to ride
and then some, but is doing this to
convince the board that he is only
too willing to serve his country, and
would have reported on September fi
had Tie received the notice.
"Objectors" WiU Be
the Army Gravediggers
Washington, Sept. 17. The War
Department has .about found the use
for the conscientious objectors
caught in the draft. They will be
the army's gravediggers.
They will be attached to the armies
In the field, but will take no part
in the actual fighting. Instead,
theirs will he tho grim business of
cleaning up the battlefields after the
fighting, and of burying the dead.
A euphoneous name has been de
vised for the grave-dlgglng corps. It
will probably be known as the
"Mercy Squadron." It will sound
much better in future generations,
the War Department believe, to say
that one's father was in the "Mercy
Squadron," than that he was' a
gravedigger.
REMEMBER, MY &OY, THIS IS OUR WAR
SAVES WATKEYS
BOY FROM FATE OF
HOPELESS IDIOCY
Senator Beidleman Procures
Means to Aid Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Child
Senator E. E. Beidleman, who pro
cured the passage by the Legislature
of an appropriation of $2,000 for the
I education of George Watkeys, a
deaf, dumb and blind child whose
home is near Wiconisco, to-day re
ceived the following letter from
A. L. E. Crouter, superintendent of
the Pennsylvania Institute For the
Deaf and Blind at Mt. Airy, stating
! that young Watkeys will be admitted
as a pupil there this week. The let
ter was in reply to a. letter written
by Senator Beidleman, who has
i taken a great interest in the unfor
tunate boy. and is as follows:
E. E. Beidleman,
Senate of Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, Penna.
My Bear Senator:
I am in receipt of your favor
of the 11th inst. in regard to the
case of George Watkeys, and
"write at once to say that the boy
has been admitted as a pupil of
this school and the parents have
been notified that they may
bring him down to school on
Thursday, September 20.
He will be received and cared
for, of course, as a free state
pupil on the special appropria
tion passed through your influ
ence. A special teacher has been
secured and is awaiting his ar
rival.
Kindly assure the parents of
these facts and me.
Faithfully yours,
A. L. E. CROUTER,
Superintendent.
During a visit to the upper end of
the county last winter, Senator Bel
dleman's attention was called to the
case of young Watkeys, the child of
a poor employe of the coal mines
there, who was unable to send the
little fellow away to be educated.
Physicians who investigated the case
at Senator Beidleman's suggestion
said that unless he was given the at
tention of experts, as in the case of
Helen Keller and little Catherine
Frick, of this city, the child would
grow up to be a hopeless lunatic.
Unfortunately, the father had not the
means to provide this education, so
Senator Beidleman prepared and had
passed a bill providing for $2,000 for
the education of the boy the next
two years, and after that other ap
propriations will be asked for the
purpose.
. There is great Joy in the Watkeys
household. The father and mother
are preparing to take the boy to
school this week and the whole
neighborhood Is in happy sympathy
with them.
Work Will Be Started
Soon on Post Office
Augustus Wildman, contractor for
the completion of alterations to.the
post office and the new addition, con
ferred this afternoon with govern
ment representatives. Work will
probably be started In a day or two,
It was said.
One of the first things which must
be flhlshed before the cold weather
is the concrete driveway from near
Court and Walnut streets to the plat
form which will be built at the rear
of the building. Much of the Interior
finishing must be done also but as
the entire building Is under roof the
weather conditions probably will not
1 Interfere with this work.
RUSSIA MADE
A REPUBLIC BY
NEW CABINET
Kerensky Solves Situation by
Proclaiming Nation's Form
of Government
J 1 1 \
Kerensky's Proclamation
of the Russian Republic
General Kornlloffe rebellion
has been quelled. But great is
the confusion caused thereby, and
again great is the danger threat
ening the fate of the fatherland
and Its freedom.
Holding it necessary to put an
end to the external indelini'.eness
of the state's organisation, re
membering the unanimous and
rapturous approval of the republi
can idea expressed at the Moscow
state conference, the provisional
government declares that the
constitutional organization, ac
cording to which the Russian
State is ruled, is a republican
organization, and It hereby pro
claims the Russian republic.
KERENSKY,
I Minister President.
YARONUDI,
Minister of Justice.
V*—__________
Petrograd, Sept. 17. —Russia ie a
republic, according to a proclama
tion dated September 14 and issued
last night by Premier Kerensky, as
"Minister and President." An earl
ier official announcement said:
"Pending the 'definite constitution
of a cabinet, and in view of the pres
ent extraordinary clrcumstanceH
all affairs of state have been entrust
i ed to M. Kerensky, premier; M. Ter
j estchenko, minister of foreign a*-
1 pairs; General Verkhovsky, minister
of war; Admiral Verdervski, minister
of marine, und M. Nikitine, minister
of posts and telegraphs."
The new cabinet is of a temporary
character. Only two of its mem
bers, Premier Kerensky and M. Niki
tine, are affiliated with any party;
both are Socialists. M. Terestchenko
resigned the other day because he
had no party following, but was per
suaded to remain. The ministers of
war and marine never have take.i
any part in politics.
Lid on U. S. Exports Is
Clamped Down Hard
Washington, Sept, 17. Tlje ex
ports administrative board has an
nounced that the embargo on the ex l
port Of munitions and food staples
has been made almost absolute. A
long list of commodities is made pub
lic, including all the munitions and
food staples. They will be permit
ted to leave the country only when
their export will directly contribute
to help the United States win the
war.
KAISFR ANSWKRS POP*: •
By Associated Press
London, Sept. 17.—Dr. Richard
Von Kuehlemann, the German for
eign secretary, has called on the
papal nuncio and handed him Ger
many's reply to Pope Benedict's
peace proposals, according to the
.Berlin Lokal Anzeiger,
BIG INDUSTRIES
ARE HELPING BUY
SOLDIERS SMOKES
i .
One Firm Gives Nearly SSO;
Others Arc Falling in Line;
Contributions Reach SIOO
Big Industrie? of the city are rally
ing to the aid of the "Our Boys In
France Tobacco Fund."
j Employes of the Telegraph Print
i ing Company voluntarily gave near
|ly 'tifty dollars. Other big firms
| have signified their intention of fall
ing in line.
The tobacco fund for the benefit
of the boys in the trenches was start
! Ed some time ago to insure good old
1 American raised tobacco for the men
I "out tfiere." They are far from
home and find the tobacco used in
France unsatisfying.
SIOO Already Given
In the first few days of the drive,
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Tobacco Coupon, paicr 10.
Sweden's Parliament
Hits Foreign Offices
For Aiding Germany
By Associated Press
Stockholm, Sept. 17.—At a great
I liberal meeting held here to-day a
resolution prepared by Dr. Leden,
leader of the Liberal party of the
second chamber, was unanimously
passed to the effect that the meet
ing expressed the deepest regret that
the Swedish foreign office was not in
a position to deny t° assertion that*
it had forwarded clphet telegrams
in ignorance of their contents, which
contents when revealed awoke the
just abhorrence of all Swedes and
that such careless acts could hap
pen.
The resolution vigorously demand
ed that the government immediately
undertake all necessary measures to
demonstrate indubitably to the
Swedish people its determination to
maintain towards all belligerents
absolute neutrality.
The Socialist parade to-day was
not a particularly, imposing demon
stration, heavy showers preventing
a large turnout. A banner borne at
the head of the parade contained the
motto "Down With Secret Dip
lomacy."
Two Harrisburg Murderers
' Pay Death Penalty For
Crimes in This City
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 17.—A double
electrocution took place at the Rock
view Penitentiary to-day, both
doomed men being from Dauphin
county. The first to go to the elec
tric chair was John Robinson, who
murdered Tonio Pakovlc in October,
1916, when# the latter resisted an
attempt to rob him.
The second man was Elwood Wil
son. convicted of killing Policeman
Lewis C. Hippie in June, 1916, when
the latter arrested him for carrying
concealed deadljt weapons.
KAISER THANKS
SWEDEN FOR
SENDING NOTES
Regrets Disagreeable Issues
That Have Arisen From
Practice
WORDING UNFORTUNATE
Berlin Believes Only Mistake
Was in Blunt
ness
By Associated Press
London, Sept. 17. —Germany has
sent a note to Sweden, according to
the correspondent at Stockholm of
the Central News Agency, highly re
gretting the disagreeable issues rais
ed on account of Sweden transmit
ting telegrams to Germany.
Germany says she is obliged to the
Swedish government for transmitting
the messages but regrets that her
representatives in Argentine should
have sent the telegrams in the
phraseology they did.
The Nya Dagligt Allenhanda, of
Stockholm, which printed the an
nouncement that Germany had sent
the note to Sweden, says the German
government has instructed all its rep
resentatives in foreign countries to
refuse to accede to any attempt
which may •be made to force them j
to reveal to Ihe Swedish government 1
the contents of code messages which
they may submit to it.
James McCormick in Will
Divides His Personal-
Estate Among Children
The will of James McCormick, one
of the most widely-known and re
spected citizens of Harrisburg,
whose death occurred Sunday, Sep
tember 9, was filed to-day with Reg
ister of Wills Roy C. Danner. Henry
McCormick, Jr., a son, was named
as executor.
The entire estate of personal prop
erty and realty holdings together
with Mr. McCormick's share in the
McCormick estate trust fund, is to
be divided equally among the five
sons and one daughter, who are
Henry, Jr., James, Jr., Donald and
Robert McCormick, of Harrisburg:
William McCormick, Reading, and
Mrs. William W. Finney, Aberdeen,
Md. The personal property is valued
at $350,000 and the real estate at
$400,000. There were no public be
quests mentioned in the will.
Veterans Hold Annual
Reunion on Anniversary
of Battle at Antietam
The thirteenth annual reunion of
the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regi
ment Infantry, Pennsylvania Volun
teers, is being held to-day at the
G. A. R. Hall.
year the reunion is held on
the anniversary of the Battle of An
tietam, in Maryland, September 17,
1862. The regiment was recruited in
York and Cumberland counties and
the 125 members who are alive to
day are scattered over, the whole of
the United States.
The meeting adjourned this after
noon at 3 o'clock to meet again this
time next year at the same place.
The reunion is purely a social
affair. The officers elected for the
coming year are: J. Hoverter, presi
dent: J. G. Leber, vice-president: the
Rev. J. H. Young, chaplain: A. S.
Fink, treasurer; G. N. Baker, sur
geon, and J. D. Hemmlnger. secre
tary.
The Ladies' Auxiliary met with the
veterans. Mrs. H. I. Zinn, widow of
Colonel Zlnn, who was killed in the
Battle of Fredericksburg, met -vfrlth
them, although she has passed her
eightieth birthday.
The veterans will go to the Camp
Curtin Church late this afternoon to
unveil the tablet which the church
has placed in their honor.
Petition Court to
Locate Polling Place
in Fourteenth Ward
A petition was presented in court
to-day asking for the locating of a
polling place for, the Fourteenth
ward and the appointment of elec
tion officers to hold a primary elec
tion. The judges reserved decision,
taking exception to the way in which
the paper was drawn up. It was ad
dressed to "the Honorable the
Judges of the Court." but did not
state specifically that it was present
ed in quarter sessions court which is
required.
Herre Brothers plumbing shop,
Fourth and Vaughn streets, was
designated as the place wanted for
the poll. A. A. Bouton, for judge of
elections; J. G. Gripfe, majority In
spector and H. C. Miller, minority
inspector. Eighty-seven of the 12 8
registered voters in the district
signed the petition.
U-BOAT HUMOR UNFOUNDED
By Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 17.—The Navy
Department, after as complete in
vestigation as is possible, is satisfied
there is no foundation for reports of
a hostile submarine oft the Nw
England coast,
THE TRUTH ABOUT
GERMANY
Though Hunger Stalks Throughout Ger'
many, the People Still Are Loyal to
Their Fatherland. The " War Brides"
Are a Pitiful Lot
By MARIE BONINI BROWN
NO. 2—THE FOOD SITUATION IN GERMANY
If I only had what I know is being put into our garbage can
at home,' was niv wish for long months before I left Germany,
so hungry was I.
Since 'I have conic back to America, I have
heard a number of people say that Germany
never will be brought to her knees through
Perha P s s ' ie n °t> if she doesn't, and
CI " P rcsent "starvation diet" is continued, it will
ta^C ire ? generations for Germany to come back
to the vigorous, strong nation she was.
//IxLv Jm The evidences of hunger and near-starvation
on ev ery side are terrible. Food is so high
a | 1( l so scarce that there are millions of people in
(jerniany who have not had one satisfactory
meal for over a year.
H hen I see how the German people themselves are suffering,
i simply shiver when I think of the prisoners of war.
I have gone to the market day
after day, and I tell tiie truth when
I say often I saw nothing for sale
but buttons and flypaper.
Every month we all received bread
cards, butter cards, egg cards, cards
for sundries and cards for everything.
We paid 10 marks. 50 pfennings—
*-.so—for a cake of ordinary soap, to
begin with. For weeks I have lived
without soap to wash my face or
wash my clothes. We were permitted
hot water only twice a week. Satur
day and Sunday, and, believe me, I
found that "Saturday night bath"' a
grim reality instead of a joke, during
the winter.
KattnK Crow For Dinner
We paid $25 one day for a duck*
just a common, small duck, not even
T V
T FRENCH REPULSE HARD ATTACK Jg
£ Paris, Sept. 17.—German forces last night attacked .V
T* the French positions in Apremon? forest, in the Ardennes
4 The official statement iy by the French wax *£*
JU ' .
T* 1 office says the attack failed after a lively battle. There jf,
i '.raa a violent artillery duel west of Craonnc and
4
X Massigef- ;.
4 U. S. CONSU*LATF t BOMBED ,fj
X Washington, Sept. 17. —Destruction of the American <£
*F consular agency at Dunk'irk, France, by a German bomb j'i
£on September 7 was reported to-day to the State depart * •
j* merit The consular .agent, Benjamin Morel, was unin- 3,
£ jured and the archives wei
I TORS HELD FOR TREASON \i
I I Philadelphia, Sept. 17. — Charged with treason, Louis 'J.
4 Werner, chief editor of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, a
' * German language newspaper and Dr. Martin Darkow, #•
managing fditor, were today held in SIO,OOO additional bail il*
* t by trial. They arc already under bail on the charge c.i jj
]*• nof the espu't- . law ,*j
jL
X RUSS REORGANIZE ARMY •* l
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J* Washington, Sept. 17.—General AlexiefTs appoint- fc'
*• H *
,I* mcnt to supreme command of the Russian armies will £
** be followed by a general reorganization in which old * 1
* * | r.
generals will give place tp new ones. Confidence of the fg i
* * troops is being xt the removal of the former f *
® *. i •
4 :renerals, dispatches say. and the situation is rapidly I >
€ t clearing. v L
' BETHLEHEM SI YS $48,333.34 BON{/$ I *
4 Harrisburg—The Bethlehem Steel Company to-da;. | *
*Pi r'ied a treasurer's return on increase of stock from ? S
115,000,000 to $29,500,000 and paid a bonus to the State 4 jj;
I J of $48,33344. > *
? BRITISH -RAID TRENCHES ! *
v
, , London. Sept. 17.—Troops of English and Scottish
•
4 • regiments. made successful raids last night on the Germar f *
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< * trenches in the Arras and "Somme regions of the battle >J £
* * frwit in France. Many Germans were killed in tbeii 1? *
4 dugouts and prisoner* ,verc taken. * „
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:: MARRIAGE ;
e I Hurry M. Saunderii, South Minrhrrtn, Conn., and Bather C. >
X T. ~0 ; n " OettMbwr*! Darnell 8. Denmon and Bernell A. Spanffler.
tP Shelton V. Walker and Blanche Bailey, HarrUbnr*. I
cooked. And once I ate crow—or
rather tried to. I get sick now when
I think of it, but at that time I triec
awfully hard to eat It, for I wai
hungry. Our small allotment of meat
which we had bought Saturday foi
the Sunday dinner had spoiled. Wi
had not had meat since the first oi
the week, and we were hungry foi
some. We always kept our buttei
and our meat for Sunday dinner. W
bought a crow, paying J1.50 for il
It was a hideous big black thing. W.
picked it and cleaned it, and earl;
Sunday morning put it on to boil.
We boiled it three hours and the i
it seemed no softer than when we be
gan. Then we put It in the stove an l
roasted it two hours. We tried t
eat it, but we turned against it. Th
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