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THE FARMER: JAjSTTARY 2, 1917 BflBIMOMSILY $2.00 Marquisette Curtains at $1.50 Marquisette Curtains with lace edge, 2y2 yard length, regular price $2.00 . a pair, for Thrift Day only $ .50 19c Kolynos Tooth Paste at 16c Kolynos Tooth Paste, regular price 19c; for Thrift-Day only. . . . . 16c :J AfAM ELM & MIDDLE ST& "A-,". Eye Witness, Returned from Syria and Arabia Tells of People Burrowing iri River Banks and Fighting for Offal Bod ies Piled in Huge Mounds on Trail ' Over Which They Have Been Driven. ! , "-fr HITH ft EJOTGTIOPJ r ' The American Committee for Ar menian and Syrian Relief with head quartars at 70 Fifth avenue, NeW York; has just received a most re markable statement from an eye wit ness of the suffering of the Armen ian refugees exiled, to northern Syria and Arabia. The writer of this state ment is neither an American nor a native of Turkey,, but belongs to a neutral country He has traveled ex tensively through the regions along the Euphrates tftiver and into the in ferior of the country. , In this report he graphically; depicts what he saw 4nd ' experienced in the different places visited.""' :;jDr. James I Barton', Chairman of the American Relief Committee states that "this report is in ' some respects the most heart breaking of all the &ad messages hitherto received by the Committee." He also declares that while the name . of. the. writer . of. th,e report is known Xo him, for - obvious reasons , his identity cannot .-be reveal ed at present, i- "There is, however," .said Dr. - Bartcjn, : "no question as to the reliability of the report, and the accuracy of the statements -contained therein.", ! This report is as follows : "I ' was permitted to visit the Ar menian .encampments; all along the. Euphrates, Meskene and Der-i-Zor jjfhd ' tot give sari account of the state w;mcn tne crepeirecr Armenians are' und in those localities, their pres- t condition and if possible ythe-ap- oximate number of these unfortun- e exiles. . ' J : ' The above mentioned mission is the bject 'of the present report. I takei e liberty to. send; yo this . asking J u at the same time to take into nsideration my . conclusions . in the kter . part of the report, which con tusions, if followed,'; can alas, in a .i small.; way, only lighten the - suffer- iiigs which a' -race on the ; pointv , of ' disappearing is end uring , daily. -tIt la impossible to give an account ".'of the impression ofhorror which my journey across; the Armenian ... en ' cfmpments scattered'all along the Euphrates has given me. especially t those on the right bank between (Mes- kene and Der-i-Zor. These can hard 1 , ly be called encampments; because , of, the fact thai he majority of these y- Unfortunate people, brutally, dragged ; out of their native land, . torn from - their homes and 'families, robbed of their effects upon' "their departure or ', kn route, are penned . up . in the open : like cattle without shelter," almost no : clpthing and1 irregularly fed with food' altogether insufficient: : Exposed to .'all the' inclemencies,; of the weather; In summer , to the torrid sun of the desert, in winter to 'the rain and cold; enfeebled , already f by 1 privations' and nlpng marches, thebad treatment, the ! most severe tortures ,and the daily $angs of death," the less feeble have aruoceded in digging holes for jtheni- selves on thet banks of the river.f '. j if. Those rare Individuals who ' have 1 -succeeded in saving' from the flood "'some clothing, -.some cloth. for tents and ' a , little ' money to procure some fjjour, if they can find lit, are', to be counted as lucky . persons-. ;AIso 'for--f A ttrnate 'are those who can find ' water- 1 4 melons from the' - peasants" of the '.. neighborhood or some sick goats from jthe nomads at ";the price of gold. Ev erywhere you see emaciated and wan ';. faces, wandering ' skeletons v lurking ; ( for . all kinds of diseases and victims ;t inoreover to hunger. - ;i The management which ' has been entrusted, to transport ' these ' people ' through the ; desert , has no intention . r1 of' feeding them., Even it-appears to 'be a governmental, principle1 to allow ,them to die of 'hunger. , An organized v .' piassaore, even in ; the , times when lib .erty, equality and fraternity were not ' proclaimed by the Constitution would . ' have, been more humane. , i It . would , 1 lit least have spared these miserable fieople the ; horrors of , hunger . and 1 death in small -doses in the worst tor ; tur.es, in refined methods of torments ', . worthy . of Mongolians. But a mas sacre would have 'been less Constitu tional! ! ! ! ! Civilization 7 is safe.; , ) 'The remainder ' ofc the Armenian nation . disseVnlnated on the .' border of the Euphrates is' composed of aged k 'people arid of women and children, j .The middle aged' and young men, twho ... have 'not. yet been' massacred, are '"scattered on the, roads of the Empire , where they break, stones ire"'t5' on 4 of torture; and then begin new forc ed marches without bread and water, under the blows of -the horsewhip, new sufferings, bad treatment, wor thy . of slave dealers of Soudan and there are victims all along the road of 'this abominable calvary. Those, who have some money left are incessantly; exploited -y their guards under threats of sending them further on,, and when these resources are exhausted they put these threats into execution. What I have seen and heard sur passes all Imagination. - Speaking of a thousand and one horrors is very little in this case. I thought I was passing through a part of hell. The few events, which I will relate, taken here and there 1 hastily, give but a weak idea of the lamentable and hor rifying tableau. The same' scenes are found in the different localities through, which . I have passed. Every where it is the same governmental barbarism whic,h aims at the system atic annihilation through starvation of J. the survivors of the Armenian na tion in Turkey, everywhere the same bestial, inhumanity on the part of these executioners and the same tor tures undergone by these victims all along the Euphrates from Meskene to Der-i-Zor. ... ; i Meskene,' through its geograhpical position- on the border between Syria and , Mesopotamia, is the natural point of , concentration of the deport ed Armenians coming from the vilay ets of Anatolia and sent afterwards all along'the Euphrates. They arrive there by the thousands, but the ma jority leave there their bones. The impression which this immense and dismal plain of Meskene leaves Is sad and pitiable. This information was obtained on the spot and' permit me to state, that nearly 60,000 Armenians are buried there, carried off by hun ger, . by privations of all sorts, by in testinal diseases and resultant ty phus. As far as the eye can reach mounds are seen containing 200 or 300 corpses buried in the ground pell mell,' women, children and old 'people belonging to different v families, 'At present, nearly 4,500 Armenians are, kept between the town of Mes kene and the VEuphrates. ' These are but living , phantoms. Their superin tendents distribute to them sparingly and very irregularly a piece of bread, sometimes tnree or lour, days pass when these famished people have ab solutely nothing. . A dreadful '' dysentery claims nu merous v victims among, them, espec ially; among the chftaren. These lat ter fall , ravenously upon all that comes under their hands, . they .eat herbs, earth , and . even 1 their excre- ments..- ;, ; .. ' . t . ' v Ij-saw Vuhder a tent ' of five -or six square meters about 450 - orphans pell mell ' in dirt , and vermin, . These poor children receive .150 grams of thread per day. However at .times. and this is more often the cas, they remain two days without eatlngnyr thing. Also death makes among them v cruel r ravages. ; frhis tent was sheltering? 450 victims while I. was passing through. Eight days after wards, during my return, intestinal diseases - had carried .off seventeen of them. ' ' : - ;' ; ' Ahpu Herrera is' a small , locality north of Meskene on the bank of the Euhprates. . It is the worst part .of the, desert. On a small hill 200 me ters from the rlvei; are confined 24Qh Armenians under the surveillance of two gendarmes without Vpity, who leave them to- die of hunger In the most atrocious sufferings. The scenes which I rj witnessed surpass all hor rors. ' Near . the place where the car riage ' stops,, women who i had not seen me arriving, were: searching in the dung of horses; barley sejbds, not yet digested, to feed on. I gave them some bread. They threw themselves on it . like dogs dying of hunger, took n voraciously into .their mouths with mccups ana. eptieptlcal tremblines: instantly informed by .one of the 240 persons, or rather hungry- wolves. i uominy io eat zor seven aays, rushed to me from the hill, ex tenaing tneir -emaciated arms, . im ploring ' with tears and cries a piece of bread. They were mostly women and children, but there were about a dozen old people. ; i ' On my return I . hronThf thm fpr the needs of . the 'ariny and are oc-i bread and was during three quarters cupiea in woras ror me state. tor an nour the pitying but unfortun f The . young girls, often very young itely powerless spectator of a rana Ones, have become the booiy Ci. jfcious fight for a piece of bread anoh I as savage, ramished , beasts would ex hibit. ' ' ' , : JULUssuimans. .rney nave Deen cap-s tjired all along ithe road of emigra tion, ' occasionally violated .and sold, . ' i not killed by", the gendarmes who conduct the sad : caravans. Many have ' ' heen thrown into the harems or Into ' the domesticity, of their executioners. 2 As on the: gatp of "Hell" of Dante, ijhe following should be written at the v ; entrance of these accursed encamp ' rf ments. "You' Vho enter, leave all hopes." Mounted gendarmes ymake the rounds , with orders to arrest and flog fugitives. ; The roads are Swell guarded! And what roads! They, lead tp the desert, where death is as sure ; ets under the bastinade of the guards of the Ottoman convict gangs. ,1 have Aiet in the desert at 'different places v tax of these fugitives dying, -abandon-ed by-the gendarmes and surrounded k by hungry dogsi waiting for their last hiccups of agony, . to Jump on and feast upon them. 1 , !?.In fact, all along the road, from Meskene . to Der-i-Zor you come up : . on graves containing the remains of unfortunate Armenians, abandoned and dead after atrocious sufferings. It. is .by the hundreds that these r mounds are numbered -v where rest anonymously in their last sleep these exiles, these victims of barbarity j: without qualifications. . i Prevented on" one hand, from .going away from the' encampments to find . means-jof subsistence,. , the . deported Armenians- cannot on the oher hand v exercise their faculty so natural to men, and especially to the Armenian race, to adapt themselves to misf or- tune and to apply their ingenuity to .; diminish the amount of their hard- ... Ships. ' ; .. ( ..'..'.' Somes helter could be constructed such as autdr shed of earth. If at least, they "had'homes. to remain where they are; they could attempt ' some farming. SEven. this hope is de nied them. They wait any moment Mamman is a small village where are kept 1(600 Armenians. Every day me Bame scene or, hunger and-hor rors. The men are taken as work men, roadmen1 and diggers. Thev r ceive as wages a piece of bread which cannot be digested and which is in sufficient to give them the force riec essary -for their exhausting work. . ; in this place I; met some families wno still have 'money and who man age , to live without so much misery, but the majority lie oh the bare ground, without shelter, and ' feed on watermelons. The most . unfortunate of '-them .'satisfying "themselves with gnawing 'the ' skins' , thrown ', away by the others. The mortality is very mgn especially among the children. Rekka is a fairly important town, situated on the left bank of the Eu phrates. Here 5,000 to p.000 Armen. ians, mostly women and children, are distributed in the different quarters or the town, and live in groups of from 50 to 60 n houses which the kindness of the governor has pro cured for the poorest." m Merit must be recognized vwherever" it is found, and that which would have been the strict duty In normal times of an Ot toman official toward Ottoman sub jects, can be counted, as generosity and even heroism in the present cir cumstances, i Although the Armenians of Rekka are treated ' better than at other places, their; misery is terrible. Flour is very irregularly distributed to them by the authorities and in insufficient quantities. Every day you see wo men and children In front of the bak eries begging for some flour and ask ing charity in the streets by the hun dreds from the inhabitants. Always there is the horrible pang of hunger. When one realizes that among these lamisnea common people tnere are .i t . ... mm lng 12 Day i First Thrift Day of the Year New Here's a list of economies that sets a high standard for value giving. Be gin the new year right, by taking advantage of the splendid savings afforded by this popular mid-week bargain day. v 12V2c OUTING FLANNEL at 21 inch striped Out- . Flannel, regular c quality, for Thrift Only, yard QV2t The Great Yearly Clearance Sale of Women's Suits, Coats, Dresses and Skirts Offers Strong Attractions for Thrift Day Shoppers The splendid assortments of garments in styles that are now at the height of their popularity, and the extraordinary reductions 1 1-3 to 1-2 Under Regular Prices make this an opportunity that no woman who wants a new garment can af ford to miss. Note these few examples of the savings $15.00 Women's Coats at . . $ 9.75 $25.00 Women's Coats at . . $ 16.75 $29.75 Women's Coats at . . $18.75 $35.00 Women's Coats at ; . $ 24.75 $18.50 Women's Tailored Suits at $ 9.75 $25.00 Women's Tailored Suits at ....... $ 12.75 $29.75 Women's Tailored Suits at $ 14.75 $150.00 Hudson Seal Fur Coats at . . . . . ...... $110.00 $175.00 Hudson Seal Fur Coats at ..-. . $135.00 $250.00 Hudson Seal Fur Coats at ..i... ..... . .-. . $195.00 $17.75 Evening Dresses at . . $ 13.75 $19.50 Evening Dresses at i : $ 14.75 $25.00 Evening Dresses at . $ 16.75 h - : :.Y,' $3.25 GRAY WOOLNAP BLANKETS at . , . . ' S2.45 Extra Grade - . -Gra W o o 1 n a p Blankets large size. Regular ? .price $3.25, for Thrift Day only,1 pair 1 $2.45 1 71 A- $1.00 Women's Kid Gloves . vi'y at 59c Women's Taii and s White Kid Gloves with self stitched back, one-clasp, reg ular price 11.00, for. 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Fine Grade Crochet Bed spreads, regular price $1.50, 1Q for Thrift Day only . ...' f 65c Men's Neckwear at 42c r. ' w ' . Men's Silk-Four-in-hands large square flowing end style in latest patterns and colorings, regular price 65c, for AO , Thrift. Day only ;. 59c Children's Rompers at 47c ; : " I , r - ' r - Children's Rompers . of good quality Seersucker, white or colored, sizes 2 to 6 years, regular price k 59c, for A TFf Thrift Day only I , s.-.Z ' " n 85c Bleached Sheets at 65c; Bleached Sheets, Single Bed Size 54x90 inches, regular price 85c, for Thrift pay only 15c Pillow Cases at 12V2c Fine Grade Pillow Cases, size 42x36 in ches, regular price 15c each, fSr Thrift Day only . . . , BlZe 111- $5.49 Men's Sweaters at $4.98 Men's . Kable Kriit ; Sweaters V-neck, with, or without pockets in Brown Navy,' Oxford and Maroon, regular CA QQ price $6,49 for Thrift, Day only " T-TT., , $1 25 and $1.50 Boudoir ' , Caps at 95c . 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Dresden and Striped Silk Ribbons in .iremnant v lengths, values up to 19c a yard, for Thrift Day JQq only ' - z1 ' m 5c Laces at 3c ' Val Lace edgings and insertions in de sirable patterns, regular price; 5c 3C a yard, for Thrift Day only.'. ... . $1.00 Silk Shirtings at 79c 'Silk Striped Shirtings, 36 inches wide, regular price $1.00 yard, for . 7Q Thrift Day only " $1.25 Men's Union Suits Men's Heavy Ribbed Union; Suits, lbtig' cioAvPB ankle leneth in Ecru. Gray .and White, all sizes from 34 to 50, regular price, $ If 2,5, for Thrift Day . ? only ........ r.' . .V'. i . . : . - $6.00 Women's Tan Russia Calf Boots at $4.85 - Women's high-cut Tan Russia Calf Boots, .wit-h welt soles and leather! Louis heels, regular price, $6.00, Cyl QC for Thrift Day only . . . w0 15c Shoe Polish at 8c Griffin's Black, Shoe , Polshj in tubes, easy to use, regular price ,15c, for Thrift Day only . ? . . . , A' , $2.98 Boys' and Girls' v Raihcoat Outfit at $1.98 Raincoat Outfits f or Bdys x and Gfirls, just 25 outfits in this lot for the first. 5, who, come for them. Regular CI QQ price $8 for Thrift Day only - 1 11 I2V2C Curtain Material t at7V2c Colored Border Curtain Material, 36 inch width, regular price 12 c TUg a yard, for Thrift Day only. . " ' lScTurkishTowels at Bleached Turkish Towels, regular lrB'd quality, for. Thrift Day only ... ... Thrift Specials in the Pure Food Market Sirloin, Porterhouse and Kound 1 Steaks, lb . . j... . . -j . -. .V ? $ "T; liean Rump Corned Beef j Fresh-Cut Hamburger OjCc . '""1 6C I Steak 2 lbs.' for; P. ): Fresh-Roasted Coffee regular 125c ' ... J r; g . grade, lb. . .... . . ; .......... i . . . . I ...... i . . ;. :.: '. W' $8100 Young Men's Oyer-; ; y v coats at $5,00;; i; ; : , ' "rouife Men's Long ..Gray .' Wool , t3fyer; - febats,- sizes- 16 to - 20 years.- regular price S.00, for Thrift Day g5.00 .ronly . . . .?.-a.-;' . '-.v..$ v. !T EMBROIDERY I c ! ;43c 'stamped carriage, robes, ThriftvDay . . . . '. . '. . -iT 5.9c- stamped . pillow. jcases, . ' Qp -Thrift pay . .' . ... '. .... V. ...... 7 7 f ..50c stamped card table covers Agr , hr.l5ay.;., , . . ,,,, . .. . .' - Z $4. stamped linen color squares "f Q Thrift ,'JDay ..... . . '. . . ?.,V- 85c stamped Turkish Towels, : gQ ( Thrift Day If, 1 cial positions, it is easy to imagine the tortures, especially mental, Which these ' unfortunate people undergo. Yesterday they were rich and envied, today they are begging like the most miserable for a vile piece of bread. On the right border of the'. Euphrates, opposite Rekka, are found nearly 1, 000 famished Armenians, living un der tents and-, guarded by soldiers. They suffer more than anywhere else parts of the country, doubtless to fill the gaps made by deaths in other en campments. And how many of them will arrive at their destination! Zierrat is north of Rekka. Nearly 1800 Armenians are encamped there. They suffer more than anyweher else of hunger, because Zierrat is alto gether desert. Groups of men and children are seen wandering about on the border of the river, looking for herbs to relieve . their hunger. Others fall dead from exhaustion under the unpitying eyes of their guards whose chief, a barbarous person in the full sense of the word, forbids anybody to pass the limits of the encampment, without' special authorization, under penalty of bastinade. Sebga is a small village where a group of 250 to ,300 Armenians live as miserably and as famished as in other places. Der-i-Zor is the headquarters of the independent governorship (mute sarifate) of the same name. Some months ago, 30,600 Armenians were installed In encampments on the out skirts of the city under the protection of the Governor, AliSouad Bey. Al though I do not want to make per sonal remarks, I would not like to pass without comment, the name of this man with a heart for whom the exiles were thankful and who tried to alleviate their misfortunes. A cer- gun a small commerce and were feel ing happy, to remain there. This proves very well that if reasons of State had demanded let us suppose the deportation in mass of Armen ians to prevent problems arising from the Armenian question at . least the authorities , could have acted hu manely and also in the interest of the Ottoman Empire; in transporting the Armenians into cities where they could find "commerce or use their pro fessions; or they could have removed to. lands that could be cultivated, as the necessity of labor is felt so keenly at the present moment. But, if it was intended to suppress the race in order o eliminate at the same time the Armenian question, the aim would doubtless not have been attained. Again the comparative favor (?) that the Armenians were enjoying, at Der-i-Zor was denounced and report ed to higher authorities. The guilty Ali Souad Bey, was transferred to Bagdad and replaced by Zekki Bey, notorious for inhuman acts and bar barism. They have related to me ap palling things about this new Mute sarif (governor) at Der-i-Zor. The prison tortures, bastinade and hang ings were at one time the daily bread of this small town. The girls were violated and given to the neighbor ing Arabs for their pleasure or do mestic use, the children drowned in the river; neither weakness nor inno cence was spared. The distinguished Ali Souad Bey had gathered about one thousand or phans in a large house and was look ing after their subsistence at the ex pense of the town. His successor threw them out of the house. The majority of them died in the streets like dogs, of hunger, of all sorts of privations and from assaults. EXPERTS TO who were at Der-i-Zor were cruelly dispersed along theChabour, flowing into the Euphrates; that is, to the most desert like region of the coun try, where it is absolutely impossible for them to find their subsistence. According' to Information, obtained by me ( at Der-i-Zr, a great number of these are already dead and the rest will .soon follow them. ' , Conclusion: I believe' there are some ' 15,000 .Armenians scattered about all along the Euphrates be tween Meskene and Der-i-Zor, pass ing through Rekka. As I have al readyJ said, these unfortunate people, abandoned, ill-treated by the authori ties,, put in an Impossible position to provide for their food, are gradually I dviner of ' starvation. . Winter is an- r EXPERTS, CALLED TESTIFY IN 'S SMALL TRIAL Wife . Alive , When : Husband Lefti is Contention of ; the Defense. V.' " .... proachinjf: cold and dampness will add their victims to that of famine. They can always find something to eat altriough very dear, if they have the money to pay for it. Doubtless there are many obstacles to sending money, of . which the principal is the ill will of the authorities; but one could , nevertheless; 'through indirect ways, succeed in transmitting to them pecuniary assistance which might . be divided among the various encamp ments for an equitable and sufficient distribution of flour. . If these funds, are not sent, .these unfortunate people are doomed; if, on the contrary, the funds are fairly substantial, it is believed that' many among them I can survive until peace is concluded which will decide their fate." to be obliged to change their Pbf persona who hava orfunfrA feSgjj, 'pw- tain number of them had even he- Furthermore,, the 30,000 Armenians day. DIES OF BURNS. Hartford, Jan. , 2. Miss Annie Fitch, about 50 years of . age, died at the Hartford hospital today of burns re ceived f rgm her kitchen stove Mon- Ossipee, N. H., Jan. 2 Expert tes timony that Mrs. Florence A. Small had eaten , meat, and vegetables an hour before, her death was upple, mented today toy the statement of witnesses that' Frederick L. Small, on trial for her murder, and his wife gen erally held their heartiest meal at noon. This supplemental testimony h' ..... T T' .11 - r -1 n ! J was given uy irs. jLdiia m. J.' crnii a-uu. Edwin C. Conner, who were recalled to the witness stand and is regarded by the prosecution as significant be cause 6f its bearing , on the time of the woman's , death. ' Small left his home for Boston about 3 p. mi,' on Sept. 28, the . day of the murder. He has stated since that they had a light luncheon of canned shrimp just;be fore he left. .- - Counsel for the defense, it is-, un-. derstood,.will contend that the. finding of the food in the stomach of the vic tim indicates that, she was alive after her husband departed and . had an Small had boarded the train.'' , ; 'Both Mrs. ' Ferrin 'and Conner- tes- ' tifipd that Mr. and. ' Mrs Small had ' tdG them at various times that they ate their principal nieaf at noon.r x.t Dr. EL W. Hodsdbn, who was re called, testified . that , from , the direc- " tion of the bullet wound in the, head, - Mrs. v Small was In a reclining: position -when the shot was. fired. The person... who fired it evidntly was, standing,, above her, he said. . v - Sheriff Arthur "Vf. Chandler identl fled a number c-f articles .found in . Small's satchel, ': There", were two let ters, written in .,1908 4 and,.. 190$ and T signed "Laura," but the ' court Would not permit them to be read.' Attend 4y tion had been called 'previously to the fact that Small's ' second ' wife was Laura" Paterson Small from whom hef obtained a divorce after he had been awarded damages in a s'ult against A. H. Soden, formerly a Boston basebafi o ' magnate, for alleged alienation of af! fections. ',"..",";."'. : Sheriff . Chartdler produced a spark- .' plug found in the cel'ar of the- SmaH cottage. He, Idehtlfled an a'titomatlc revolver taken, from the ruins.' f - . r Witnesses had testified that-this, re volver was similar: to one' owned by " Small. It(.was of .32-callbre and as& calibre bullet wa i-, found . in' . Mrs. ' Small's head. The sheriff, also tidenti-, fled a number of fine wires picked up . I riear the spark-plugj v v - : ; ft ."? rf. HANGS SEUE1 TOi BED POST. W Bristol, Conn., -Jan. ' 2l-si-J 6hh A; 3 Mo ''' lin, 55, committed suicide at his boitird-'' ' lng house during the night" by stra'n' gulation with a cord attached to "his bed post. The body yas ; found 'todayc Poor health is believed to havheen.":. opportunity to eat another meal be , the cause.? He leaVfS, k ; sMer 'iSoiiNew.f.' ' fore her death which, in those; cir-1 Britain 'and - in; Ufltlff' ift'' WfctWbtto.!'.-.-. cu instances, must have occurred after was said," f ' i:' '" ' -' ' . ''. ' ,: . ' , ' .:' . ' . -.u. " ' " : ; v ' ' ' - . ':. 7 '.-.. '.:'.';. -.t'-J'i 'IG'f''' i.?.Y'ijiro A ? N