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ESTABLISHED 1870 Entered at the south Norwalk rout
Office as Second Class Matter.
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Bill iloliil‘ 1H0Miillililil0
, BOND BEFORE
MIDNIGNI
{Norwalk Wants a Million
, and a Quarter, and Had
. $1,115,250 Pledged Early
This Morning
in ullllsuva '
1 million law
Altair Will Wind Up a Series
of Demonstrations in Var-
ious Places in County
MANEUVlliilfl
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Regiment to Encamp by Baté
dleip the Men Who Are Risk- t li D '
ing Their Lives While We :cczliing“£$g,,§$m"
‘ Stay Home -—-———
,BRIDGEPOR'I‘. May 4.—A series of
the greatest military demonstrations
known in the history of Bridgeport,
outside of those parlor-med .by the.
regular army, will start in this city
and the towns in the near vicinity
within'the next few “days. The mom-
moth parades, reviewe and maneuvers
will be performed by the Home
Guards of the Fourth 'Military Dis-
trict. which embodies Bridgeport.
Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk and
Danbury.
To Be Held- Here, May 30.
The demonstration in Bridgeport
will be the last of the series, but it
is expected tllat this will be the most
spectacular. ' The day of the demon-
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Police Registering Plans
Are Under Way, and Work
Starts in Two Weeks—In-
terment. to be Penalty for
Violation of Country’s
Laws
' Buy another bond before midnight.
Norwalkfs drive in the Third Liberty
Loan closes at midnight this evening:
iGet on the band Wagon. Join the
6.611 men, women and youngsters who
are already in on Norwalk‘s success.
Don't delay. Go to the Globe Adver-
tising Agency quarters, 85 Washing
ton street, this afternoon, or some
time before midnight tonight and put
yourgelf on record as a bond owner.
lit you have already bought a bond.
buy another. Help the cause along.
Show the other towns and cities
Something. Norwalk now has a total
Bubscription of $1,115,250 and wants
at least a milieu and a quarter. 'Bo
line of the helpers in the cause. It
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Clerk in Quartermaster’s
, Department Accused of
Accepting Bribes
NEW YORK'May i.—-Plirclmse of
km automobile and other .evldencesi
The Work of the registration of wo-
PARADE IN iiiill
REVIENNAY 30,
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MANAZINEPNSNINN
PASNIN NUSSELL’S
VIEW SUPPRBSEN
“Kingdom News,” Termed
Pro-German, Is Under
Federal Ban
NEW YORK, May i.-—“Klngdom
News," a monthly publication issued
by the international Bible Students'
Association in Brooklyn has been sup-
ipressed by the Department of Justice.
on the ground that the April number
of which 7.000.000 cepies have been
distributed throughout the country.
was nothing less than a defense of the
late Pastor Russell's book, f‘The Fin-
ished Mystery," which previously had
been suppresaed as containing pro
German propaganda
.z‘ The action followed the arrest of
two women at Leonunstor. Mus. who
Sliii All cell
Sillillilll WAR
Bl itiiiNMiNi
United States Will Link
Them With the Railroads
in One Mighty Machine,
Officials State .
NflNiSSliNllliS
will Hill: ill in
Fuel and iron Will Be Di-
v'erted Entirely to Use of
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were accused of circulating copies of
(Continued on Pacifism)-
Stimulant mpg-9,...”
similar war ”antiserum drastic and
far reaching rostrlotlfisson the die,
tributlon of coal and e «in of rail-
road equipment. the last step in com-l
plete mobilization of the fundamental?
industrial resources to win the want
were taken yesterday by the War he:
dustries Board and the Fedelsl Fuel
Administration. Their action comes
as an aftermath‘of the meeting in New
York last Friday of steelmaker: with
.l. Leonard he'plogle, chief of the steel‘.
bureau of the War industries Board.
Industries of lesser and nonesentiai .
character practically are cut of! from
coal unless they are able to engage,
forthwith in the Inc tincture of war}
products. Pig iron ' steel will be,
turned directly into the war producti
. ‘Wos uninjured , plants, except where the war aims iusq
and she stood helpless beside thetilfy diversion. Factories and mills}
wreckage while the machine burned, i which are closing down will be requir-
in the car were Mrs. Bowen and l ed to turn their supplies of pig iron
Mrs. Veleta Bowen. of Philadelphia, 1 and.steei over to munition plants and
William Wagner, of Camden. and a‘shipbullders.
' - To Limit Use of Minerals. f ti
0 "Every pound of steel hence or i
(C ntinued On Page Eight) must be concentrated on the single«
purpose of winning the war." saidi
Chairman Baruch of the War Indus-
tries Béard. This was seconded by Dr.
.WRAPS HERSEI‘F IN xGarflold in the announcement that
f I Iswceping limitations on the consume
i BLANKET 1 tion of coal are to be put into effect at
. lance.
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Two Men and Woman Meet
Death Near Atlantichity
| ——One Escapes
ATLANTIC CITY, May 4.—~Two men
and a. woman were burned to death
last night. under the wreckage of a
big touring car three miles from Abse-
con Poini.’near here. The car swung.
éaround Dead Man's Curve. overturned]
fund rolled into the woods'beslde tho.
lroad.
“Mrs. Mary Bowen, of Philadelphia,
whor’maiie m theiourtll member of
the automo is party
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hummus-which unlabelled.
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Apparently No Truth in
Story That Knob Club and
Former Hostelry Will Be
Taken Over
There was a rumor in the city today
to the effect that the United States
government had taken over the Clifo
ford Hotel on South Main street ind
also the. Knob Outing Club at Wilson’s
Point. ,
As far as could be learned today
there is nothing to either at these ro-
more.
A department of justice official. rep-
resenting the War Housing Bureau
was in Norwalk the other day. looking
up vacant houses. rooming houses and
all places where workers in munltlon
plants such as Bridgeport or places
where there are a number of workers
on government contracts could be
housed.
The Hotel Clifford has 62 rooms
which could be used if the government
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BENTEN NF BATTLE
IN SUPEIiNlli [Illlllil
Witness Claims He Was In-
toxicated When He Signed
Document
The sensational affidavit of Frank J.
took the place over. but the Knob club
The only thing that the Knob club
'Ducll in which he said he had testified
falsely in a healing April 16 on the
contempt proceedlus brought by the
ENEMY GIVING IJP 'YPRES
. IS THE Billif 0f lHE BRNISN ,.
AND fRENCH 0N HGHNNG NNlNl ;;;
The Past Week Has Been .
Distinctly Unfavorable for
the Enemy, As Since the
Capture of Mont Kemmel’ ~
They Have Been Unableto '. ,
Advance
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MANY will nus
Intense Enemy Artillery' Fire ~
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tion with the ship lumber stoma yard itens' unions. was the basis of suntan
lotion
could homes for would be Museum” 3mm Hat company or m.
the landthm could be used in Maw burr against olicials or outcry not-
thero (or Idditioull space. When "90 {tin at a hearing in tbemperior court
and u Wilson's Point was out com-loam Judge Kellogg Thursday after-
mandoored by the government it '85 noon. Delegations of union batters
believed that the Knob property would crowded the court room and officials of
also .be taken over, but at that time the United States flat company were
Flanders Continues
Heavy fighting along the wlsoiof
Italian front between the Adriatic
and tile Giudicaria Valley in tho}
there was nothing to the rumor. also on hand.
In connection with the visit of the Doesn't Remember Signlnny
agent 01' the WI“ "OWNS 3‘1““ "“3 Duch declared on the stand that he?
postman of the city took an inventory was intoxicated when he signed the}
oi all rooming houses, vacant houses aflidavit and didn't remember now;
and places where accommodations whether he had signed any paper-.0r'
oeuld be gotten along their routes and not.
a report has been sent in to the bu~ ‘
reau. -
Danbury is regarded as being an ac-
ceptable spot or a suburb of Brill «
port. and the . is 'now on f a
scheme to have tracks laid direct from
Bridgeport to Danbury. do that that
city would be within easy commuting
distance of Bridgeport.
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Seized by that homesick feeling for the Irish Unionist Alliance in Dublin
his old hometown in Danbury. Charles yesterday. a resolution was discussed
Ginty. who gave his address as 3038 i to the effect that while the Alliance
Ocean avenue. Sheepshe Bay, saw a was confident of the honorable inten-
horse and wagon baton rig to Oscaritions of the delegates to the recent
He remembered “being dragged
sllll ruin
_ lil HllME RULE
Irish Unionist Alliance Takes
Exception to the Findings
of the Convention
fro-Hungarian official statomonfi',‘
British losses in men ' ,‘
wounded, captured and missing ..
on the western front since the
north is reported in today’s Ans-Hr
on the Southern Flank o!
. .
German offensive beganMarch 21~ ..-
are estimated by the British tutti-v '
tary mission in Washington at
nearly 250,000. ‘
thing indicates the oifenslve will.
is borne again by the British the
situation will become serious un-
less the British troops are sup-
ported by sufl‘lccnt reserves. ' “
opened by the crmans early this
morning Oil the Flanders front:
sector between the forest of' Do
Nieppe and Metercn, the British-
Wur Office announces.
In a statement todaygiving‘ this
calculation the mission said Welly»
llt‘wctlllilnlledgdlilfififi dildo“ Ml
and that if the brunt of 0 attack
An intense b mbardméut w“!
from Locrc to the south of Ypmse"? 7,
There is great activity also in the»
of unusual prosperity led, yesterday.
to the arrest of Lawrence Goldman, of
Brooklyn, a clerk employed by the.
quartermaster's department in the
purchasing office of the army trans-
pori,servico‘ in this city on a charge
of, accepting bribes for manipulating
- bids for army contracts. According
men aliens enemies will start'in' about
two weeks at which time the work
lof registration will be similar to that
lot the registration of male enemies
iin February. The police will enuln-
[crate the registrants in cities of over
5,000 and the postmastel‘s will direct
the work in smaller communities. '
SETSlNiLZlilTHEMl
SPRINGFIELD. Mass. May 4...}
Mia»: Minnie l. Butterworth, Holyoke,
nurse, who shot and killed George A.”
Westerllng of Poplar Plains across the
used by the government officials, but
that is the intent of the program of
““0“ “9°“ ‘7th11 they have decided. nightg ‘lind‘decided that it was a slow!
The output of the steel mills is at tile and sure way of getting back to the l
highest point in their history. yet the, Benniown. so he climbed into the'
government is finding it necessary to; wagon, and it is said accompanied by'
go into other world markets and buy; another Danbury man, steered the?
street groin Mchrthy’s saloon on.
Main-street about i 9:00' o'clock, last!
iGreat Britain and Ireland and opposr
'Irish Convention. it differed totally
with the findings of the convention
and adhered to the fundamental prin—
ciples of the Alliance, namely the.
maintenance of the union between
tion to Home Rule.
An amendment was moved to the ef—
rhc British slightly improved
their position in a minor operation
near Hinges, on the southerly side,
of the Lys salient, while on the '
northern front the French carried
out a local enterprise in Which:
prisoners were taken, in the Locro
7 ' brugge, the German submarine base
. This registration is the outcome of
:to Robert P. Stephenson, assistant. , g , ,
United States district attorney, con-gf’pilla? vtvlhlch makes int?“ women
tracts involving at least $100,000 are, (jgyeme‘; 'Wfig‘fi‘xflfg‘é“: ‘xfg‘jhispgg:
believed to have been passed since;alty for disobedience.
Because the machinery of the regis-
trations is the same as in the enroll-
ment of males it is fair to assume that
the procedure will be the same.‘
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LONDON, May 4.—Lalest reports;
show that the Germans are display-i
ing great activity in endea‘voring to.
repair the damage caused at Zee-
The latest United States govern-
on the Belgian coast, by the recent-merit statistics, show that the cost. of
British naval raid. The channel still food as a whole increased 21 per cent.
remains blocked and it is thoughtdul-ing the year ending last Febru-
likeiy' it will remain so for a con- ary. A large part of that advance
Siderabe time. ' occurred during the first three months
1 . (i 0th hl ill
Elliott, at Holyoke dl‘uggist, “‘mm‘" manganese an U E ,
in that, , - , 'ts war work.
city on April 5. committed suicide this } grade “991% to“
evening ill the York Street Jail by,i
wrapping herself .in blankets anti set»1
ting tire, to them. The act was 'com-' ' ‘
milled in the bathroom iAdoo immediately 0
She died at a hospital ilv
er
- ll-hlln ll railroad e ulrment to the
I Two women inmates smelled smoke} C‘Gnsuinfiwon of that? program. i
and rushed to the bathroom where McAdoo in Conference.
:they discovered lilies Butierworth; Both Dr. Garfield and Mr. Baruch:
Lwrapped ill the blazing blankets. Ot- ! have been in frequent communication.i
.ticers at the jail rushed to the scene. ‘ . ' ince he left Wash-l
jaud medical attendance was summon» With Mr. MCAdOO 8 ‘
led, but the woman was terribly burn-
' d
of the jail. l his Liberty Loan Tour with a view of
. fuel has a very vital place in the wind
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gimp .. .
.been despondent and nervous all day, ! beell arranged.
due to brooding over her coming up i in
week.
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SNlNlEN’S Nflllllili
Garfield. “A reduction
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measures Will be employed. Lesser;
steed due north.
When Westerly discovered the loss the attitude of the Unionist delegatesi
Dr. Garfield “‘1 Mr. Baruch areiof his trusty steed he immediately to the Convention, events that had?
working in ""18”” and “"11 engage in a! notified Oiiicer sweeney. who was on since occurred compelled a change of
iconference with Dil'ectorCeneral MC';his beat. Several people had seen the views.
n his return from man start up Main street and Sweeney out voting on the resolution.
at once commandeered Frank Salva-
0 hours I“ completing arrangements for 0°“ce‘1‘lto’s sen going taxi and started in hot ster Unionist Council met at Belfast
pursuit. Ginty had a fill] half hour's
'start and it was not until he had reach-
ed a point near the residence of Shah
man Morebouse in Wilton that 118 was . ing the “unprecedentedand unconstitu- ‘ elicmv.
overtaken.
When charged with the theft he said
lington some weeks aEO~ Looomotivelhe had caught a ride with anotherillis letter to Premier Lloyd George _ Ti 1 l
. . the C0n~iill * am ers t li‘
ovel her entire . - . . -l , . 5 ’ . .
ossible to save hggdlyifeandsgg 3:5 mug 0f the war program which hi“ i, bury, but the other man had deserted? vention. Another resolution was pass-,been able'to advance either south-
' :lllm and he intended to put the horse} ed cordially supporting the steps tak-
g‘We knémt’llhe capacity Off t-hencoaél up in the first barn he came too. He; en by Sir Edward Car-son. the Ulster;
. nes an 1% 811101111 0 1‘3 1‘03 Iwiliingly returned to '
.penrance before the Grand Jul-y lloxt i equipment at our disposal," Said Dr. was locked up.
in coal con—i
“million at ““5 time “5 a W” meas- . cripple. having lost one foot. and W'l" signs of a general stiffening of the '3 gain south of the Somme.
ure is absolutely necessary. .1 may 583' 3 of another when a lad of seven, while Unionists against Home Rule since tlicl
that the most (1mm conservation plating around the railroad tracks inlAlliance between the Nationalists and . . ,,
He haditlle Sinn Feiuers against conscription‘dayss the BrltlSh and French, 93? l"
man who said he was going to Dan.
Norwalk and
Ginfy who had been drinking, is a
the Danbury switch yard.
Apart from the time that the en-
itrnnce is occupied by two sunken con-
crete vessels, the position of the sunk-
leu cruiser, Thetis, which its at the
edge of the shoal, is likely to increase
the. difficulties of dredging ’and pre-
pmllf the harbor from being cleared
dill.
Plant at Work on-
Army Helmets Burned
‘ NEW YORIL'May 4.—The plant of
the Meurer Steel Barrel Company,
, novel-Eng an entire block at Hunter's
. iPoint, Long Island, and engaged in
the manufacture of war material.
‘ mostlysteel‘ helmets for the govern-
. spent. was burned late yesterday. The
. lire followed ,anlexpioaion. The plant
. was formerly occupied by the New
Work Creoaotlng Company and was
taken over by the Maurer Company
about eighteen menths ago. 4 About
200 men ware mployed. The loss is
estimated at $100,000. ,
{of the period. The entrance of .the
,United States into the war made a
lnew demand for food, and tended to
encourage speculators to hold out for
high prices. ‘
.stopped. During the last month of
the period," the prices “went up an~
other 1 per cent. Potatoes are about
the only staple lower than a [year
ago, thanks to the great back yard
crop raised by patriotic gardeners.
Bread reached its zenith in August
when the average price of a lbounce
loaf was up to .091. By February it
was down to .083. . .
‘ It is disappointing that in spite of
the big corn crop on which we ex-
pected such satisfactory results. the
prices of corn meal kept rising. Re-
tail prices at Chicago went up dur-
ing the period named from .041 per
pound to .070. This suggests that
the corn crop was not. efficiently hand-
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(Continued on ' Page Four), ‘ . .
This advancing tendency is not yet\
led Much of it was from the start.
i llVlNl] IN NEWARK!
Private Davenport Lived in.
Norwalk For Two Years
Previous to Enlisting in
New Haven Blues
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Constable Clarence Brush identified.
the Charles B. Davenport given in yes~'
terday's casualty list as being the son
of Mrs. E. E. Divine, now of 1'16 La“;
fayette street, Newark, N. .l. Mrs. Di-
vine was formerly Miss Cornelia
Pickett. of this city, and some time
ago moved to Newark. Private Dav-
enport. who was; nineteen years'old,
is survived by. his mother and one
Newark.
Private Daveliport Was born in New-
»ark, on March‘zoth, 1899, and at' the
over his nineteenth year.
‘g—IL—q-
a rage slime). g.
i liens
and non—essential industries must give ‘. gamed a precarious living. as a. dem.l
'fect that while the meeting approved;
e meeting adjourned with-
The standing committee of the Ul-
i and passed a resolution wholly endors-
-ing the attitude of the Ulster Union-
lists at the Convention and condemn
itional action" of Sir Horace Plunkett.
the Convention‘s chairman, in writing
sector.
Germany ‘s military leaders still .
hesitate to renew in force the'
offensive to which they are com-
mitted and the lull in Flanders
and l’icardy is still unbroken by
heavy infantry fighting. ‘ 1
The past week has been a 'dis-
,tiuctly unfavorable one for the
After capturing Mont
Kemmcl and heralding it as only
{covering the proceedings of
iUnionist leader. “since the present
crisis arose."
These meetings were the outward
was effective. The Belfast correS<
way in their coal needs in order that
war industries may be speeded up to
their maximum.”
The process of coordinating steel.
,onsirator for the manufacture of Ar-
tificial limbs who had furnished him
with new feet, so that he walked with-
out a cane.
.weeks. but a consummation was not the larcency of a wagon. a cousin,
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brother, Ormondl Davenport, also of1 in behalf of‘Dr. Garfield.
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time of his death ,was only a few days by many manufacturers regarding the
While in curtailment measures. . Every consid-
this city he, roamed with his mother. oration po'ssiblb‘was given to the pro- 1
Mrs. Divine, at 43 South Main street. tests, it was stated. and the industries 101
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railroads and mediate a mighty WEI‘ Charged in the uptown court this
engine has been in progress for several. morning with the theft of a. horse and
reached'until after a series of confer- _ Dennisr Kennedy, appeared and asked
ences with reDTQSe-nthtives of many ; for an adjournment of the "case which
lines of manufacturing. Much of the, was granted until Monday morning at
detail is yet to be, finished, but the 8811' , the usual hour. Bonds were fixed at
eral policy and the economic funds-32,000, .
mentais have‘been adjusted and put‘ Ginty has a weil-to-do brother in
into operation.« ' ’ Brooklyn, Who is a travelling sales-
' This was indicated by both Mr. A‘G- man, and who could not beliocatcd
xlogle and P. B. Noyes, chief of the this morning, and a number of. rela-
conservution division of the ‘Fuel Ail-,tives here. including his uncle Mir-tr
mlnistration.‘ 'Mr. Noyes, who 13“! no.1 Raichford, ol the Homestead
manufacturer in New York state, has Hotel; ..
been in' charge of the negotiations of,
fuel conservationwith manufacturers: The down town electrical commis-
‘sionere met last evening at the stile-
es of the plant on‘State street and dis-
cussed the question of races. It was
agreed that the raise in rates would
be held off as long as possible.
an interesting meeting of the Catlr
to Club was enjoyed by the main
Protests Are Heard.
Violent protests have been placed
with both Mr.. Noyes and Mr Replogie
pendent of the Morning Post describes
the meeting of. the Ulster Council as
“the first stop of loyal Ulster‘s new
campaign to defeat the Home Rule
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llNNlSllPlilSllNEliS
Defeat Beds in Five Days’
Battle, Berlin says.
BERLIN, via-London. May 4.~-"In
southwestern Finland we have over-
whelmingly defeated the enemy dur-
ing a five days battle near Iiakhti- and
Tavasthua, capturing 20,000 prisoners,"
says the German oilicial communica-
tion issued today.
"In Ukraine our troops marched
from the Ekatlerinosiav-Kharltov line
into the Donuts regidn.‘ We Occupied
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_. Stations night... a... .
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Memos. on the Sea of Azov
* Inear Castel, and from the new po-
lilallll’i'llslilil‘llllllE
the first step of a victorious blow . ‘
Germans have not‘ _.
girl-st of Yprcs or cast of Almond, .
Checked by the heroic offensive '
Eof the French and British in the-j
,nortil, they also were unable‘ to -.
I In Picardy during the past fevr 5‘
,pocially General Pctain’s men, ,
Elluve made important local gains
jand the Germans have not reacted
ill force, an unusual procedure.
The enemy has made no attempt
to force the French from Hill‘82,
sitions around Hangard. Then ::
British and French in the Villcrse ‘
Bretoullellx region also has not
been molested except by the Ger- "
mull artillery, which continues {if
most violent bombardment southff”;
of the Somme and north and son
of the Avre. ‘ ‘-
intense enemyafliilery fire on.) ‘
the southern flank‘ in Flanders has?“ ‘
not yet. been followed by infest-3 "
:try fighting. The Germans also
are bombarding he vily the Brit-
ish north of Albe . Perhaps the?"
enemy may intend it blew on than;
'Arras salient, as these "bomhérd 7
ments have been against the
northern and sduthern lines of the
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