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AiJam and Ere's Manage.
No More Veirasberg.
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Dear little Doggie.
A little Tainy, but cheerful this
Jnorninsr, considering the news.
, The Italians defy the attacks of
Germans and Austrians united,
as might have been guessed by
"""ylcnowing Italy.
The French and English com-
mned have made a pleasing hole In
the "unbreakable Hindenburg
line.
The Wotan line and the Sieg
fried line have discovered that
their namesakes are ont of date.
Speaking In Wagnerian terms,
the Kaiser,had his pleasant Venns-
fcerg moments at the beginning of
the irar. But soon is coming the
tJoetterdaemmernng, and in that
gloomy dusk of disillusion will be
heard a motif of the Mame and of
the. United -States that -will give
t the Kaiser many a sad moment.
-An able young -man named Lei
ter is said to have remarked 'in
his Infancy, "Anybody who thinks
.ie can corner all the -wheat in the
, world is a rdamphool., "
Anybody who thinks he can eor-
' 5- Intelligence and power
of the "world acd impose his divine
will -on all mankind at this date
when human beings are able to
ed might be called a "super-
In Washington every day thir--eeo'
thousand people call tele
phone central and ask, -"What time
" Aa advertisinjr suggestion for
men that sell good watches.
What will they do with Mrs. De
Saulles. who shot her handsome
football playing husband?
They will set her free, accord
ing to well-established tradition.
Those that criticise her acquittal
will be nasty.
When Adam.married Eve, he did
k for better or for worse, and got
little of .each.? When a football
i beauty -Marries a temperamental
Chilean lady and transports him
self and his affections tothe highly
Illuminated' regions, he must take
thecossequences.
The, "double standard of moral
ity,'' .much bemoaned in moving
pictures, is nullified to somertwfeti
ceat-oy tne single standard of pis
tol "practice, which allows .a lady
onder, anjjatasonable jcircnm.
stances to express ner opinion of
thedouble standard.
J Another dear little doggie"' has
-Utted a child, a little boy of six.
-The boy's face is torn, but dear
little doggie's owner protests that
'it must have been some other dog.
If all dogs were done away with,
ror kept chained, or in cages, as
they should be, like other wild
beasts, there would be no difficulty
identifying the particular dog that
tears the face of a child, or helps
other dogs to kill an old woman,
as recently happened near "Balti
more. v
You are told that mills must
close for lack of coaL Why do
not the learned railroad gentlemen
carry coal in box cars of which
jthousbnds travel empty through
the coal regions. Coal Is not
poisonous, would not hurt the cars.
A big box car could easily carry
twenty tons of coal or more. Not
convenient to load and unload, per
haps, but better than NO COAL.
Ask the average citizen what he
thinks of Gabriele d'Annunzio,
and he will answer, "First-class
aviator." Ask him which he thinks
the best of d'Annunzio's poems
and he will reply, "Didn't know he
wrote ANT" which shows the
power of advertising.
Ten men will Identify Nancy
vrnk as a trotting horse, for one
Xht will identify her as the mother
of Abraham Lincoln.
England gives the franchise to
boys of nineteen, and a very re
stricted vote to women of thirty,
"only if they have husbands also
entitled to vote." A boy of nine
teen is supposed to know much
more than a woman of thirty, even
when the latter has a husband to
keep her from being too foolish.
Nice compliment for English
women.
Los Angeles abolishes saloons
and will permit the sale of no
alcoholic drink containing more
than 14 per cent of alcohol.
Too high a percentage.
10 per cent should be the limit
for natural wine and 4 per cent
for beer.
California wines, extraordinarily
hi&h in alcohol, often dosed with
additional alcohol, are almost as
poisonous as whiskey, and should
sot be sold.
Mr. Villa is enjoying himself in
Mexico on our borders. He killed
forty yesterday, and Americans
are driven to the border. Wouldn't
it be possible to trade Villa for
some one of the Russian Bolshe
vik!, or even for Kerensky? There's
a great field for Villa in Russia,and
it would be a blessing if the United
States, which Is unable to deal
with him, could eet rid of him in
some diplomatic way. Let Root
hand him a hundred million dol
lars and escort him to Petrograd.
The news comes that "English
men in the United States are soon
to be drafted." This seems reason
able. When Americans here are
drafted to fight "over there," it
does not seem excessive hardship
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WEATHER:
CLOUDY AND
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DAY FAIR.
NUMBER 10,355.
ALLIES
What Has Been Done Can Be
Done Again, Is View Suc
cess of Tanks Vindicates U.
S. Experts' Confidence.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
tOeprrtant. IM7, br New York rTenmg Poet
Oo&paar).
Enthusiasm and a real stimulus is
felt in the National Capital as a re
sult of British success on the west
ern front. ' .
Russia's disintegration and the
Italian reverse had been depressing
and no news could have produced
more cheerfulness and genuine satis
faction Jhun the breaking of what
had hitherto been regarded as an al
most' unbreakable line.
Today the slogan Is: What the al
lies, have done once, they can do
again. And a natural feelinz of im
patience to marshal America forces
and.-get into the fight was observed
in military circles here.
Biggest Event Since Hsraei
With- miDi asrefcd out JmIof tiiem.
the army wat'stidents eetrcrly seized
upon successive .ktuletln from the
(root to measure .the -scope or the
Brttlsua'vaace, -i- -.
The surprisaaftaek Is "VlwecTbr
momentcraa rcWtajTrlavent on tnml
westaraf front since tha -battle of the
Mama. Thar point out that tha wide
wedre cdrlveri Into the "Hlndenbnrs
line haa practically doubled tha ax
STeaalva reaourcea of the British and
Frenclj by cirlnr them tha opportun
ity to outflank the German line al
most at will. From the Tprea salient
they can command a portion of the
Belgian coast country, while aouth
ward they can threaten tha dafenaes
of Lille. Ukewlae at Cambral, the
Drltlah menace Lille from the aouth,
while with the French attack on the
Alane the German defenaea from San
Quentln to Laon have bean endan
gered. The beat military Judgment here U
to the effect that there muat be a
vaat chance in the German llnei In
tne weit not later than .spring-, and
perhapa aooner.
Jar-Orer Taaka' Wark.
Keen Joy t felt over tha work of
the tanka, whilh military men aay
have now made Jt lmpoailble for the
Germane hereafter to hold any por
tion of the western front -with heavy
barbed wire entanglements or light
gun power. The way the big cater
pillars have mowed down the Ger
man defenses and made possible the
recovery of more than one hundred
square miles of French, territory with
comparatively light lose to tha at
tacking- force pleasea the American
offlcera Immensely, aa they have
been great believers from the start
In the efficacy of these land mon
stera. Sneerea VnSereatiaiated.
Army officers incidentally sounded
a warning lest the country misunder
stand the meaning of the British suc
cess because of the modest assertion
that "two lines of intrenchments"
had been carried. Each of these
"lines" consists of outpost intrench
ments. a firing- trench, at least one
strong supporting trench sufficiently
large to hold great quantities of re
serves, and probably a number of
enfilading trancbea placed at every
point of vantage between and behind
tha front lines.
The British have run aver two of
these vast systems of network
trenrhes, with their barbed wire de
fenses, thereby giving cavalry a
chance in the open field for the first
time alnce the beginning of the war.
If the British had planned their
drive for the very purpose of remov
ing some or tne gloom that has hunr
over the entente camp since Russia
and Italy began giving concern, thev
could not have more effectually accom
plished ineir purpose in Washington.
At no time naa nope ebbed away.
On the contrary the darker mo
menta have led to renewed determina
tion In an atmosphere characterised
for the moat part before by overcon-
fidence.
Ifews gtlasnlatea.
But the newa from the British front
la a stimulus of Incalculable value.
That the German lines can be
broken at this time gives ground for
the feeling here that when the Ameri
can forces, freshly trained anoV sup
ported by more tanka, mora artillery,
and mora aeroplanes thsn have ever
been aaaembled on the westeern front
before, a decision la br no means lm.
ipoasuie, out stpeaale,
ALUED GAINS
CHEER WAR
OFFICIALS IN
WASHINGTON
fjitwateaftmlftw
CONTINUE VICTORY, SHELLING CAMBRAI
D. C. Boy Lost in
U-Boat Zone
FOR U. S.
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Th second Wsshtnri&iunother to
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siee . lore'dTone In the submarine war
lone, tiis,, Gertrude Wadderburn, of
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celved official notification' today that
her son. Lieut. Charles Fester Wed
derburn. had gone down with the
United States destroyer Chauncey last
Monday.
Mrs. Wedderburn refused to believe1
newspaper reports of the loss of her
son, being under the Impression that '
he was tranaferred to another veaael
some months ago, and today called at,
tha office of Admiral Leigh Palmer,
chief of the Bureau of Navigation,
for Information. Admiral Palmer con
firmed the press dispatches.
In addition to Lieutenant Wedder
burn, three Maryland men were lost
on the Chauncey. They are: llonore
Martin Claggett. Jr., of Poolesvllle,
formerly of Laurel, and well known
In Washington: Ensign Harry O.
Skinner, of Mt. Washington, and
Nicholas H J. Wagner, shlpfltter, first
class, whose father lives at Fullerton.
One Waaklngtealam a urrlvor.
One Washington man, Joseph P.
Claxton, of 3371 Tenth atreet north
west, was among the seventy survi
vors of the Chauncey. A cablegram
announcing the rescue of their
brother waa received here today by
Alfred B. and Arthur B. Claxton.
brothers. No particulars were given.
Claxton la twenty-three years old
His two brothers are veterans of the
Spanish-American war.
Lieutenant Wedderburn was the son
of George Wedderburn, for many
yeara an examiner In the Patent Of
fice. He died two yeara ago For a
long time the family lived In Chevy
Chase, Md. Young Wedderburn went
(Continued on Pace 2, Column 6.)
"Salodnless" Washington today sup
plies two cases of whisky selling, and
two cases of Intoxication for trial in
Police Court.
Aaron Hatcher waa found guilty of
selling liquor In violation of the new
dry law. He waa sentenced to pay
a fine of $300 or serve thirty daya
In Jail, and an additional .sentence of
thirty daya.
Olivia Burton, colored, was charged
with aelllng liquor to William Gor
don. Gordon was awaiting sentence
for being drunk when he testified
against her The court dismissed the
ease against the woman because he
f elt-Gordon'a testimony might be In
fluenced by the fact that he had
not been sentenced. Gordon waa
fined $23.
William Franela Campbell, of Balti
more, waa tried for being drunk In
the Union Station. He aald he pro
cured his whisky In Baltimore, and
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CHARLES F. WEDDERBURN.
MOW HEARS
SON DIES
FOUR LIQUOR
CASES IN DRY
CAPITAL'S COURT
"n..r" T'"'h: w.. 5 'S.o laid out "The Box
126 or fifteen days.
MERCURY GOING DOWN.
The mercury la slated to drop about
ten dr,M tnnta-ht- according tntnome. near Valparaiso. Chile. Then
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tha bureau statement I
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tne weather iiureau. -uiouay and " lul' aeiana or ner snoppinK , Sevenin ikimi-i-, neoraaka na
colder tonight, temperature about 38 tr'l to Tarls. In company with her t0na! guard, In'o-the Federal ser
drgre,ei, with Friday fair and colder," mother, and of how Jack followed, I vlce. Governor Neville haa already
WASHINGTON, THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 22, 1917 Ckmz Waif Strt Prices.
SMILES
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TO VOTE FOR
Prosecutor Bitterly Arraigns
Widow as Trial Opens Hint
at Jealousy as Motive Behind
Slaying of Husband.
MINEOLA. N. Y Nov. 22-De
Sounced as a deliberate murderess,
Irs. Blanca De Saulles, white and
wide-eyed, sat in Justice Manning's
court this afternoon and heard Dis
trict Attorney Weeks demand that
she be sent to the electric chair for
(killing her former husband, John
Longer De Saulles, clubman, politi
cian, and one-time Yale football
player.
"She shot him In the back and said
she hoped he would die," exclaimed
Weeks, in his opening statement to
the jury.
Prisoner Listens Astounded.
Ti& twelve Jurors looked at the
pale, finely chiseled face of the de
fendant, and than back, at the prose
cutor. Three.' days 'and a naif had been
consumed In getting a Jury to near
the en befora'Weeka launched on
Lt. .aMlnai ait tatmavnt-
4 lira. Da Saulles bail taken ,ilttl In-
DEATH
m
2EW SSlJisS
tened astounded .at- tne
indictment i
awln.t tiar.
"She la a native of Chile. She waa
married to De Saullea In Paris." aald
Weeka.
They had one child. They were di
vorced In 1918. The decree awarded
the child to the father five monthaof
the year -and to the motaer aeven
months of the year.
"W -irlll show you that by expreaa
agreement and consent this arrange
ment waa made so they could alter
nate In having the child. Thla de
fendant agreed to thla. On the day of
the shooting the custody of thla child
waa rightly with tne father, accord
ing to the new agreement."
Telia t Tragedy Might.
He described the scene of the shoot
leg, tha De Saullea house at West
bury. This woman telephoned her for.
mer hnsband'a house the night of
August 3," Weeks continued. "She
waa told De Saulles waa out. but
would return In an hour. She called
three klmea for a taxlcab. When it
arrived she told the driver to take
her to the De Saulles house aa fast as
he. could. She told him to take the
short cut across the plains She had
her dog with her. and she had one
hand under her aweater. When ahe
reached the bouse she had the auto
mobile stop a short distance away.
Then she went In and demanded to
see John L. De Saulles
"She went Into the living room. De
Saullea arose from the couch and
came toward her. He held out his
hand. She demanded the boy. He
said the boy was rightly with him,
and turned his back She fired five
shots and one hit him In the back and
caused his death."
After the killing, and when Mrs.
De Saullea waa under arrest, the au
tomobile In which ahe waa being con
veyed stopped before & graveyard.
Weeks declared.
"And she said: 'How lucid that we
should stop here.'
"And then ahe asked: 'Will they
electrocute me right away?'"
Says Killing Waa Planned.
Weeka charged Mrs. De Saullea
showed cold thought and planning
throughout the killing.
"She used servants, automobiles and
money," he asserted, pointing at her.
"Her revolver had a safety catch. It
was necessary to release this notch
before firing each shot. But she did
It. She fired five shots and ahe knew
what she was doing It waa a de
liberate murder and we ahall ask for
a verdict of murder aa auch from
you"
The Jury to hear the evlden.ee In
the trial of Mrs. De Saulles waa com
pleted at noon today.
The twelfth Juror la Alexander F.
Norton, a retired farmer. Immediate
ly after Norton had been accepted
court adjourned until 1:30. when the
prosecution waa to make Its open
ing statement.
The eleventh Juror, accepted thla
morning from a venire of fifty men.
la George Giles, alxty yeara old. of
Mlneola, a carriage trimmer.
ucu
George A. Fal -field, a surveyor.
The Box" the home of
the De Saulles. was the first witness
called.
Mrs. de Saullea will first tell of her
Introduction to the "Imnetuous Jack."
whIch took place at th Erraziirlz
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BANISHES OLD
Denied Franchise, Many -Gen
man Residents of Long Resi
dence Failed to Become Citi
zensAll Must Go.
By BILL PRICE.
A number of pathetic cases have
arisen In Washington as a-result of
President Wllsnn'a proclamation rid
ding the District of alien enemies. It
was said today. This does not apply
to those aliens .who came here since
war -was' declared and who must
leave the city by midnight after
registering and leaving photographs.
It applies, to a number of Germans
who have lived and worked In Wash
ington for many years and, for 'vari
ous reasons, failed to obtain natural
ization. Two cases were reported to
day of German residents of this city
who have been here twenty-flve and
twenty years, respectively. In the
first case the man obtained his first
naturalization papers, but never com
pleted his application.
Has Jtaked Jamflji
When, the -old man waa told a few
day ago thttTi:wond have to-leava
Bouaer me: i-ve uvea nere so ion.
This old man has raised a family
and some of his "children are married.
In the other caae mentioned the man
Considered taking out naturallxatlon
papera, but .when told that It would
do him no good, aa people of the Dis
trict could not vote, he took no action,
and la today an alien who will have
to leave, the District If tha law, aa
proclaimed by the President, la fully
enforced.
EasbtyTeor-old Mas Mast G.
United States Marshal Splaln aald
today that an attorney had called
upon him In regard to the caae of a
man eighty years old who haa lived
In Washington many yeara and whose
two daughtera are American cltlzena.
He never bothered about naturaliza
tion papera when he found that Waeh
Ingtonlana could not vote. Another
case waa that of a Jeweler whoaa
parenta were English citizens living
temporarily in Germany when he waa
born. He remained there some yeara
until he learned the language, and on
(Continued on Page 10, Column 2.)
OLD SIXTH FIELD
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The red-haired Irish gunner who
fired the first thot for America
against the Germane In Europe waai
a member oi nattery c, or tne oia
Sixth Field Artillery, which several
years ago waa stationed at Fort
Myer, and waa well kcown In Wash
ington for Its exhibition drills
Brig. Oen. Ell D. Hoyle, former col
onel of the Sixth Artillery, gave the
first word of the identity of the or
ganization firing he firat ahot in a
speech In New Y.rk last night He
declared that thU organization waa
the best-drilled outfk In the United
States army before the war, and
Washlngtonlans who remember Ha
exhibitions In tha riding hall and on
the drill field at Fort Myer will
agree with him
The White House today stated that
the casing of the first shell fired by
American troops at the Germane In
France haa not been received by Presi
dent Wilson.
NO NEWS OF SCHEDULED
REICHSTAG MEETING
AMSTERDAM. Nov 22. The Gei
man Reichstag waa acheduled to meet
today, but details were lacking from
Iterlln on whether the arrangements
made when Count von Herillno- -..
chosen chancellor for a meeting on
this dale were to oe carried out.
NEBRASKA GOVERNOR QUIT8.
LINCOLN. Nih, Nov. 22 The
resignation of Kel'n Neville aa gover
nor of Nebraska waa today sent to
the secretary of atate. It la to take
effect upon the acceptance of the
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Earl of. Stafford. Served throngh Soudancampaign 1884.
Served in South Africa 1899-1902. Attached East An
glican division np to 1912. Became lieutenant general
1916. Married Marie Evelyn, authoress. His home is
Thorpe Hall, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex.
LIFE TERM MAN
OCCOQUAN TRUSTY,
Under sriecl.-ll In'tructlons from
Inspector Grant, headquarters detec
tires, aa well as men of every pre
clnct, today are ro-operating with of
ficials of Occoquan In an attempt to
aonrehend Herman Kabansky, mur
derer, serving a life term at the Lor
ton Reformatory. Kabansky escaped
from the reformatory at 3 o'clock
this morning while engsged In du
ties of a trusty.
His escape v not dlacovered for
aome time. Supeilntendent Whltaker
told The Times this morning mat ne
had every hope of capturing Kaban
sky. who. he ears has "merely en
larged the confines of hla prison"
by the escape.
Herman Kabansky, aged twenty
five, early In the morning of March
20. 1014, entered the home of his
mother-in-law, Mrs Lena Rabay. 1816
Seventh atreet northwest, by the back
ddor. Flrat going to the bed room
of hla wife, Fannie, from whom he
waa aeparated, ho shot her in the
face. Next he attacked Mra. Rabay
In the adjoining room. Inflicting re
volver wounds In her throat from
which, ahe died shortly after at
Emergency HdspltaL
He also ahot his six year-old brother-in-law,
Solomon Rabay. In the
cheat. Meanwhile. Tollceman Thom
aa C Edwards charged up the front
steps, receiving a bullet through hla
coat from the men'a revolver, and
.ntu.t Kabansky after shooting
MAKES HIS ESCAPE
IVi through the hand.
RAILWAY CHIEFS
SEE PRESIDENT
The four brotherhood presidents.
accompanied by Federal Mediators
W. L. Chambers and Martin A. Knapp,
entered into conference with PresI
dent Wilson at 2:30 this afterndon. A
decision In favor of no atrlkea dur
ing tne war. or virtual conscription
of the railroad workers, waa expected
to be the outcome of the meeting.
The leaders of the employes main
tained their silence concerning their
plana up to the lime they entered the
White House thottly before 2:30
o'clock.
Commissioner Chambers, of tha
United Statea board of mediation and
conciliation, waa confident that the
President would persuade tha labor
leadera to agree to arbitration of
wage demands for the balance of the
war
The Prealdent'a plan waa persistent
ly reported to be a wage-fixing board
with final powers.
POWDER FOUND IN COAL
FOR BALTDHOTE FACTORY
BALTIMORE. Md., Nov. 2i A
quantity of giant blasting powder
was found In coal aa it waa being
taken from a car into the big plant
of the Oreenwald Packing Company,
which la working on Government
contracts to furnish cantonments with
ON WAGE SCALE
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closlnr staadllr aroafia, Cbnkaht
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the nemy just aa the tanks test
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man. lines. i.-
British, troops swept to wtkMa '''
two and taretf-quarter mflaa ot
Cambrat," Field Marshal Hals reported.
British artillery is now sfcIBe .
Cambral and. the country to tie war.
One hundred square miles of
French territory has been redeemed
Every hour makes the British vic
tory more gigantic In its scope, mora
astounding in Its conception and.
execution. The Hlndenburg line has
been smashed to flinders.
FlgBtiBff la Opes.
In soma sections of tha battle front
the fighting: is practically tn tha
open. British cavalry has bean In ac
tion. The vaat and Intricate trench
defensea of the Hlndenburg- line and
Its subsidiary lines have in many
places been stormed and the enemy
forced Into defense from the open.
SEVEN FIERCE ATTACKS
FAIL TO MOVE ITALIANS;
RE-ENFORCEMENTS DUE
By JOB1T H. HEARLET,
United Preus StazT Camsyeademt.
ROME. Nov. 22. Seven desperate
enemy attacks during tha past fifty
six hours, ftunr against Italian de
fenders between tha Plave and tha
Brenta rivers hava been thrown back.
Every Inch of the Italian line holds
firm and unyielding; despite the
enemy's moat violent efforts.
This newa from the battle front
today gava Home Its first chance for
quiet jubilation alnce tha dark day
when the Austrian and German hordes
swept over Gorlzla. ,
Every hour gained in tha hold of
the Plave line. It waa declared, meaaa
pie capacity for resistance increased
aa re-enforcements now on the way
to the front arrive.
At Boweglava tha Italians pierced
the dykes, flooding: much ot tha
ground la this section. Fresh Italian
divisions from tha Iaonzo front hava
been placed In positions for tha
atrongest defense of Venice. Tha
enemy was reported today to ba pre
paring for further heavy attacks
north ot tha mountain llnea.
GEN. PETAIN CLINGS TO
NEW GROUND GAINED IN
YESTERDAY'S OFFENSIVE
PARIS. Nov. 22. General Petaln'a
troops held fast today to new ground
gained In yesterday's offensive be
tween Craonne and Berry-au-Bac
The attack waa a concentrated as
sault, covering a little over half a
mile, and aimed at strong German
positions. All objectives were attain
ed to an average depth of about a
quarter of a mile. Intense artlllery-
lnsr waa reported In this sector today.
French troops are driving against
the fortress of Laon. defending tha
southern end of tha Hlndenburg line,
and have mads excellent progress.
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