THE MORNING' OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECE3IBER 19, lUOo.
METGALF'S STORY
DFJAPAW'SWRDNG
Race Prejudice Rules
San Francisco.
PRESIDENT INDORSES VIEW
Will Use Federal Power to Pro
tect Japanese.
WHY SEPARATE SCHOOLS
parents Object to Adults Mixing
With Children Koycotters on
Japanese Restaurants Bought
Off Assaults on Japanese.
"WASHINGTON", Dec. 13. The President
today transmitted to Congress the report
f Secretary Motcalf, of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, on the exclusion
of Japanese from the schools attended by
whites in San Francisco, the boycott on
Japanese merchants and the assaults on
Japanese in that . city, and accompanied
it by a messape stating that he had
authorized Mr. Metcalf to state that the
entire power of the Federal Government
would be used to enforce Japanese treaty
rights. The message is as follows:
I enclose herewith for your information
the linal report made to nio personally by
Secretary Met calf on the situation affect
iiifr the Japanese. In San Francisco. The
report duals with three matters of contro
versy first, the exclusion of the Japanese
children from the Kan Francisco schools;
second, the boycotting of Japanese restau
rants, and, third, acts of violence committed
esnlnst the Japanese.
As to the Ilrst matter, I call your especial
attention to the very small number of Jap
anese children who attend school, to the
testimony as to the briKhtness. cleanliness
and Rood behavior of these Japanese child
ren in the schools and to the fact that,
owlnjc to their bcinp scattered throughout
the city, the requirement for them all to
go to one special school is impossible of
fulfilment and means that they cannot have
Bchool facilities. Iet me point out further
' that there would be no objection whatever
to excluding from the schools any Japanese
on the score of ape. It Is obviously not deT
ftirnhle that youngr men should ko to school
With children. The only point is the exclu
sion of the children themselves. The num
ber of Japanese children attending the pub
lic schools in San Francisco was very small.
The Government has nlready directed that
suit be brought to test the constitutionality
of the act in question, but my earnest hope
Is that such suit will not be necessary, and
that as a matter of comity the citizens of
Fan FraSu'lseo will refuse to deprive these
young Japanese children of education and
will permit them to go to the schools.
The question as to the violence against
the Japanese is most admirably put by Sec
retary Metcnlf, and I have nothing to add
'to his statoment. I am entirely confident
that, as Secretary Metcalf says, the over
whelming sentiment of the state of Cali
fornia is for law and order and for the
protection of the Japanese in their persons
and property. Both the chief of police and
the acting Mayor of San Francisco assured
Secretary Metcalf that everything possible
would bo done to protect the Japanese in
the city. I authorized and directed Secre
tary Motcalf to state that if there was a
failure to protect persons and property, then
the entire - power of the Federal Govern
ment within the limits of the Constitution
would be used promptly and vigorously to
enforce the observance of our treaty, the
pupreme law of the land, which treaty guar
anteed to Japanese residents everywhere in
the Union full and perfect protection for
their persons and property; and to this
end everything in my power would be done
and all the forces of the United States, both
civil and military, which I could lawfully
employ, would b employed. I call especial
attention to the concluding sentence of Sec
retary Metcalf's report of November 6,
Separate Sehools and Boycott. .
Mr. Metcalf begins by saying:
In my previous report I said nothing aa
to the causes leading up to the action of the
school board In pass! n re the resolution of
October 11, "and the effect of Buch action
upon Japanese children, residents of the city
of San Francisco, desiring to attejid the
public schools of that city. A report on
this matter will now be made, therefore;
and after describing the local pub o senti
ment concerning the recent disturbances
with regard to the Japanese, "an account will
be given, first, of the boycott maintained
by the Cooks and Walters' Union of San
Francisco against Japanese restaurants do
ing business in that city, and, second, of
the several casus of assault or injury inflict
ed upon the persons or property of the Jap
anese residents.
He then says the Board of Education
had been considering- separate schools for
Orientals for several years, and on May
I," 1906, passed this resolution:
Resolved, That the board of education Is
determined in its efforts to effect the estab
lishment of separate schools for Chinese
and Japanese pupils, not only for the pur
pose of relieving the congestion at present
prevailing in our schools, but also for the
higher end that our children shall not be
placed In any position where their youthful
impressions may be affected by association
with pupils of the Mongolian race.
This was followed on October 11, 1906,
by a resolution directing school princi
pals to eend all Chinese, Japanese or
Korean citiaens to the Oriental public
school after October 15. Mr. Metcalf con
tinues: Due to Exclusion League.
The action of the board In the passage
of the resolutions of May 6, 3905, and Oc
tober 11, ll0tt, wan undoubtedly largely in
fluenced by the activity of the Japanese
e nd Corean Exclusion League, an organiza
tion formed for the purpose of securing the
enactment by the Congress of the United
States of a law extending the provisions
of the existing Chinese exclunion act so as
to exclude Japanese and Coreans. The
league (Claims a membership in the State
of California of 7S.300. three-fourths of
which membership is said to be in the City
of San Francisco. The membership Is com
posed almost entirely of members of labor
organizations. Section '2, article 2. of the
constitution of the league Ik as follows:
"The league as such shall not adopt any
measures of discrimination against any
Chinese, Japanese or Coreans now or here
after lawfully resident In the United
States."
Yet, on October 22, 100,"i, at a meeting of
the league held In San Francisco, as re
ported In the San Francisco Chronicle of
October 23, iy03, a resolution was adopted
by the league Instructing Its executive com
mittee to appear belore the board of educa
tion and petition for separate schools for
the Mongolian children of San Francisco.
Prlir to the action of the league, the
board of education, as I am Informed, re
ceived many protests from citizens' of San
Kranelsco. whose children were attending
the public schools, against Japanese being
permitted to attend those schools. These
protests were mainly against Japanese boys
and men ranging from lrt to 22, 23 and 24
years of age attending the primary grades
and sitting beside little girls and boys of
7 and 8 years of age. Wiien these com
plaints became known to Japanese residents,
I am Informed that 'some of the older pu
pits left the primary grades.
On the day when the order of October
II went into effect, viz., October 15, there
were attending the public schools of the
City of San Francisco 93 Japanese pupils.
These pupiis were distributed among 23
schools of tho primary grades.
Of this total of 83 pupils, 6 were born in
Japan and 25 in the United States. Those
born in the United States would, of course,
under the Constitution of the United States,
be citizens of the United Slates and of the
state wherein they reside, and as such sub
ject to the laws of the Nation as well as
of the state.
Instruction All the Same.
The Oriental School, the school set apRrt
for the Chinese, Japanese and Corean child
ren, is In the burned sortlnn. There is only
one Japanese student attending this school
at the present time, and there are no
Japanese - children attending any of the
other public schools. I visited the Oriental
School In company with the Japanese Con
sul and found It to compare favorably with
many of the hew temporary structures
erected in the city. The course of instruc
tion is exactly the same as at the other
public schools, and competent teachers are
assigned for duty In this school. Nearly all
of the pupiis attending this school have
to be taught the English language.
An examination of the map attached here
to will at once clearly show that it will
be absolutely impossible for children re
siding In the remote sections of the city
to attend the Oriental School. The condi
tions in San Francisco are such, owing to
the great coniiagration, that it would not be
possible even for grown children living at
remote distances to attend this school. If
the action of the board stands, then, and
if no schools are provided In addition to
the one mentioned, it seems that a number
of Japanese children will be prevented from
attending the public schools and will have
to resort to private instruction.
Opposed to Japanese Immigration.
I found the sentiment in the state very
strong against Japanese young men attend
ing the primary grades. Many of the peo
ple were outspoken in their condemnation
of this course, saying that they would take
exactly the same stand against American
young men cf similar ages attending the
primary grades. 1 am frank to say that
this objection seems to me a most reason
able one. All the political parties In the
state have Inserted In their platforms planks
in favor of Japanese and Corean exclusion,
and on March 7. 1000, the State legislature
passed a joint resolution urging that action
be taken hy treaty or otherwise to limit
and diminish the further Immigration of
Japanese laborers into the United States.
The press of San Francisco pretty gen
erally upholds the action of the board of
education. Of the attitude of the more
violent and radical newspapers it Is un
necessary to speak further than to say that
their tone Is the usual tone of hostility .to
"Mongol hordes,' and the burden of their
claim Is that Japanese are no better than
Chinese, and that the same reasons which
dictated the exclusion of the Chinese cull
for the exclusion of the Japanese as well.
Argument of Californians.
The temper and tone of the more con
servative newspupers may better be illus
trated by an epitome of their argument
upon the public school question. That argu
ment practically is as follows: The public
schools of California are a state and not a
Federal institution. The state has the
power to abolish these schools entirely, and
t.he Federal Government would have no right
to lift Its voice in protest. Upon the other
hand, the state may extend the privileges
of Its schools to aliens upon snch terms as
it, the state, may elect, and the Federal
Government has no right to question its
action In this regard. Primarily and essen
tially the public schools are designed for
tho education of Its own citizens alone. It
would not for a moment maintain this ex
pensive institution to educate foreigners and
aliens who would carry to their countries
the fruits of such education. Therefore,
if It should be held that there was a dis
crimination operating in violation to the
treaty with Japan in the state's treatment
of Japanese children, or even If a new
treaty should be framed which would con
tain on behalf of Japanese subjects the
"most-favored-nation" clause, this could and
would be met hy the state, which would
then exclude from the use of its public
schools all alien children of every national-'
lty and limit the rights of free education to
children of Its own citizens, for whom the
system is primarily designed and main
tained, and if the state should do this the
Federal Government could not" complain,
since no treaty right could be violated when
the children of Japanese were treated pre
cisely as the children of all foreign na
tions. The feeling in the stati is further intensi
fied, especially in labor circles, by the report
on the condition of the Hawaiian Islands
as contained in Bulletin t6 of the Bureau
of Labor, Department of Commerce and
Labor. The claim Is made that white labor
has been almost entirely driven from the
Hawaiian Islands, and that the Japanese
are gradually forcing even the small white
traders put of business.
Welcomed at Universities.
Many of the foremost educators In the
state, on the other hand, are strongly op
posed to the action of the San Francisco
Board of Kducation. Japanese are admitted
to the University of California, an insti
tution maintained and . supported by the
state. They are also admitted to, and glad
ly welcomed at, Stanford University. San
Francisco, so far as known, is the only city
which has discriminated against Japanese
children. I talked with a number pf prom
inent labor men and they all said that they
had no objection to Japanese children at
tending the primary grades; that they want,
ed Japanese children now in the United
States to have the same school privileges
as children of other nations, but that they
were unalterably opposed to Japaneseyoung
men attending the primary grades.
The objection to Japanese men attending
the primary grades could very readily be
met by a simple rule limiting the ages of
all children attending those grades. All
of the teachers with whom I talked while in
San Francisco spoke In the highest terms of
the Japanese children, saying that they
were among the very best of their pupils,
cleanly in their persons, well-behaved, stu
dious and remarkably bright.
The board of education of San Francisco
declined to rescind Its resolution of October
11. claiming that, having, established a sep
arate school for Chinese, Japanese and Ko
rean children, the provisions of section 1062
of the political code became mandatory.
Boycott on Restaurants.
A boycott was maintained in San Fran
cisco from October 3 to October 24 by mem
bers o the Cooks' and Walters' Union
against Japanese restaurants doing business
in that city. Nearly all of the leaders of
labor organizations In San Francisco, inter
viewed on this subject, disclaimed any
knowledge of any formal action being taken
for the boycotting of these restaurants. They
admitted, however, that there was a de
cided sentiment in the unions against pat
ronizing Japanese restaurants, and that that
sentiment was created and fostered by
speeches In union meetings and by personal
action of the different members, with the
object of not only preventing union labor
men, but the public as well, from patroniz
ing these restaurants.
The secretary, as also the business agent,
of the Waiters' Union, Local No. 30, head
quarters at 1195 Scott street, San Francisco,
said that no resolution against Japanese
restaurants had been passed by their union,
but that It was urged in their meetings and
by different members of the union to them
selves refrain, and to keep the public as
well, from patronizing such restaurants:
that for three weeks in the early part of
October men were employed by the Cooks'
and Walters' Union to stand in front of Jap
anese restaurants on Third street and dis
tribute match boxes on which was pasted a
label as follows: "White men and women,
patronize your own race"; that this was not,
strictly speaking, a boycott, as a boycott
must be Instituted through the labor coun
cil. . Mr. Metcalf then quotes the minutes
of the meeting of the executive board of
the Exclusion League on June 25, to the
effect that the secretary was instructed
to inform all central labor bodies in
the city that many workmen were pa
tronizing Japanese restaurants and to
request central labor councils to. urge
unions to enforce penalties on' their
members for so doing. ' The league
offered to have the offenders photo
graphed and distribute these photographs
to the unions. "Wage-earnefcs were also
warned against buying berries from Asi
atics. Mr. Metcalf continues:
. Boycott Most Effective.
Ag a matter 'of fact, a most effective boy
cott was maintained against nearly all of
the Japanese restaurants located In San
Francisco for a period of at least three
weeks. Pickets were stationed In front of
these restaurants and every effort was made
to prevent people, from patronizing them. At
times stones were thrown and windows
broken, and In one or two Instances the pro
prietors of the restaurants were struck b
these stones.
He gives the detailed story of a
Japanese about attacks on his, restau
rant and how the boycott was conducted.
The Japanese Restaurant-Keepers Asso
ciation was refused admission to the
Cooks' and Waiters Union, and finally
collected, $350 to be paid tho union for
the purpose of having the boycott de
clared off. Of this sum 5100 was paid to
W. S. Stevenson, and the other $250 re
mains In the bank. The boycott stopped
when the money was paid, after having
decreased business two-ftiirds. Mr. Met
calf further says:
The chief of police assured me that every
effort would be made by him to protect the
Japanese restaurants In San Francisco, and'
that all violators of the law would be prdmpt
ly arrested and punished. The acting Mayor
of San i'rancisco also assured mo that he
would co-operate with the police department
of the city, and would see that everything
possible was done to protect Japanese subjects
and prevent violations of law.
I am satisfied from Inquiries made by me
and from statements made to me by the Jap
anese restaurant keejers, that the throwing
of stones and breaking of windows was not
done by the men picketing the restaurants,
but by young, men and boys who had gath
ered In front of the restaurants as soon as
the boycott was instituted.
Assaults on Japanese.
Assaults have from time to time been made
upon Jajiane.-e subjects resident In the city
of San Francisco. I was informed by the
Chief of Police that upon receipt of a com
munication from the Japanese Consul he at
once Instructed captains of police to make
every effort to stop theee assaults, and, if
necessary, to assign men In citizens' clothes
to accomplish the purpose.
He then gives the detailed statement
of each victim of assault.
- These attacks, so I am informed, with but
one exception, were made when no policeman
was in the immediate neighborhood. Most
of them were made by boys and young men;
many of them were vicious in character, and
only one appears to have been made with a
view of robbing the person attacked. All
these aasaults appear to have been mode sub
sequent to the fire and earthquake In San
Francisco, and my attention was not called to
any assaults made prior to the 18th of April,
1906.
Dr. F. Omorl, of the Imperial University of
Toklo, one of the world's most distinguished
scientists, and, as stated by Prof. George
Davidson, of the University of California, one
of the greatest living authorities in selsmo
graphy, sent to San Francisco by the Japan
ese Government to study the causes and ef
fects of the earthquake, was stoned by hood
lums in the streets of San Francisco. Prof.
T. Nakamura, professor of architecture in the
Imperial University of Toklo, was also stoned
in the- et recta of San Francisco by young
tough sand hoodlums. Dr. ' Omorl was also
assaulted -when visiting Eureka, Cal. Neither
of these eminent gentlemen made formal com
plaint of these assaults, and wished that no
official recognition be taken of them.
Duo to Race Hatred.
I know that "these assaults upon he Japan
ese are universally condemhed by all good cit
izens of California. For months the citizens
of San Francisco and Oakland have been ter
rorized by numerous murders, assaults and
robberies, both at day and night. The police
have been powerless. The assaults upon the
Japanese, however, were not made, in my
judgmnt, with a view of robbery, but rather
from a feeling of racial hostility, stirred up
poeslbly by newspaper accounts of meetings
that have been held at different times rela
tive to the exclusion of Japanese from the
United States.
While the sentiment of the State of Cali
fornia is In favor of the exclusion of Japan
ese coolies yet the overwhelming sentiment in
the state is for law and order and for the
protection of Japanese in their persons and
their property.
The Chief of Police of the city of San
Francisco, as also the acting Mayor of the
city, assured me that everything possible
would be done to protect" the Japanese subjects
In San Francisco, and they urgently requested
that all cases of assault and all violations of
law affecting the Japanese be at once report
ed to the Chief of Police.
Warning to City Officials. '
I impressed very strongly upon the acting
Mayor of the city, as aleo upon the Chief of
Police, the -gravity of the situation, and told
them that, as officers charged with the en
forcement of the law and the protection of
property and person, you looked to them to
see that all Japanese subjects resident in San
Francisco were afforded the full protection
guaranteed to them by our treaty with Japan.
I also informed them that If the local author
ities were not able to cope with the situa
tion, or If they were negligent or derelict in J
the performance of their duty,
"then the entire power of the Federal Govern
ment within the limits of the constitution
would be used, and used promptly and vigor
ously, to enforce obeervance of treaties, which,
under the constitution, are the supreme law
of the land, and to secure fit and proper treat
ment for the people of a great and friendly
power while within the territory of the United
States."
If, therefore, the police power of San Fran
cisco is not sufficient to meet the situation
and guard and protect Japanese residents In
San Francisco, to whom under our treaty with
Japan we guarantee "full and perfect protec
tion for their persons and property, then,
it seems to me, it is clearly the duty of the
Federal Government to afford such protection.
All co.ifildcrations which may move a nation,
every consideration 'of duty in the preservation
of our treaty obligations, every consideration
prompted by fifty years or more of close
friendship with the Kmpire of Japan, would
vnite in demanding, it seems to me, of the
United States Government and all its people,
the fullest protection and the highest consid
eration for the subjects of Japan.
CONFERENCE OX ORIENTALS
Pacific Coast Delegations Agree to
Act in Concert.
WASHINGTON', Dec. 18. Congress
men from Washington, California,
Utah, Oregon, New Mexico and
Wyoming held a meeting today and
agreed to act in concert in all. leg
islation affecting Oriental immigration.
They appointed a vigilance committee
to watch all proposed legislation re
garding Chinese and Japanese imml-
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people own $30,000,000 of the preferred is
sue and $30,000,000 of the common. Their
proportion of the new stock would in
crease their holdings to $95,000,000. Through
the short notice they will profit by secur
ing $25,000,000 more of the new stock, which
would give them $120,000,000 or a clear ma
jority of the $230,318,000 of stock as In
creased. Terms of "ew Stock Issue.
NEW YORK, Dec. IS. Holders of Chi
FASHION CENTER
Ornamental Gifts in Combs, Beit Buckles,
Jewelry, Etc.
These beautiful articles' are ad
mired by every woman. We can com
pete with any jewelry house in the
city as to prices and genuineness of
Btock, and we know you will be
pleased with the large assortment we
are now showing on the first floor.
The large assortment of Purses and
Bags in the very latest and up-to-date
styles will please the- most . artistic
eye. Handsome novelties, fresh from
Paris and New York. You will find
nothing like them elsewhere. All
prices, from $1 up to $25. Initials
stamped free of charge.
Tremendous Values for Xmas Gifts
IN FORCED SALE OF LEATHER GOODS
No gift shows better taste or retains its worth longer than an
artistically correct article of leather. This great forced sale of
three delayed shipments of extra choice leather goods offers the
most sensational bargains of the season.
2000 Shopping Bags, $2.00
value $1.48
$3 real seal shopping bags $1.98
Vanity Leather Bags, $2.25
value $1.50
85c workboxes, fitted, only 50t
$1 leather Photo Frames. 75
Seal Bags, val. to $5, for. $2.98
75c small Coin Purse, great value
rft 50C
Senl Toilt Cases, fitted with brush,
etc $1.50
$.'.00 Cigar Cases, real seal ami wal
rus SI. 50
Ciearette Cases, of real seal and
walrus . : -iOO
Pen Wiper of alligator, sterling
mounted 35e
Extra large Desk Writing Pad. seal
corners Sl.OO
Real Leather Stud Boxes, spl. .600
Scissors and Paper Cutters com
bined, for desk 48
Sale of Fine Furs
Four-in-Hand Scarfs, (." inches
lontr, while ermine, lined with
white satin; sale $3.50
Fancy Four-in-Hand Tie, 5") inches
lonjr. of extra quality fine blended
Jap mink, finished at each end
with silk frinpre and lined with
brown satin; our sale price.. $5
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul stock will be
permitted to subscribe for the new $100,
000,000 issue to the extent of 50 per cent of
their present holdings in preferred stock
and 25 per cent in common. The percent
age competition will be made on the en
tire amount of stock held, both preferred
ami common. At the time the announce
ment was made today it was said that
"split," or fractional, shares will be al
lowed on the warrant. The stock will be
issued tomorrow.
New Stock In 100-Share Lots.
XEW YORK. Dec. 18. Following a meet
ing today of the committee on securities
of the New York Stock Exchange, an
nouncement was made that the directors
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad had agreed to Issue warrants In
100-share lots as "rights" for the new pre
ferred and common stocks, the issuance of
which was made public yesterday.
MUST ASK MINNESOTA'S LEAVE
State May Knjoln Hill's Issue of
$60,000,000 New Stock.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 18. Attorney
General K. L. Young has not yet heard
officially from the Great Northern as to
whether it will apply to the State Rail
road & Warehouse Commission for per
mission to Issue $ti0,000.000 in stock as last
provided for in the revised laws of 1905.
The Attorney-General is prepared now to
stop any attempt by James J. Hill of the
Great Northern to issue the stock with
out first obtaining his permission.
Mr. Young said he did not expect any
further developments qntil January 4.
when the first issue Is scheduled to take
place.
"We will be ready for them," said he,
"on that date, and they will not issue
any stock if there Is any virtue in our
laws.",
The Attorney-General Intimated that In
junction proceedings would he brought to
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There Is Nothing More
Suitable for a. Christ
mas Present Than a
Handsome
FUR
We put February Prlfea
on our Furs now, when the
assortment is large and the
demand is greater. -Vow is
the time to buy Sllver
fielil'M Kara. Our assort
ment and stock is consid
ered the largest and most
up-to-date in the Far West.
A Word of Warning
In buying furs from any
other place than a fur
houNp. beware of furs made
in Kastern sweat-shops
under the most frightful
insanitary conditions. They
are made to sell only at
outrageous profits not to
to suit or'please the wear
er. Auk to ee how Sllver
Beld'w furs are made.
Handkerchiefs Always Acceptable for Xmas Gifts
Handkerchiefs could never be prettier than the splen
did assortment of beautiful designs we selected for this
year's selling. Come! Choose while the assortment
best affords.
at n
ur ago) s
or the
amount
trouble
$2.75 collar and cuff Boxes..$2.25
$4.50 Desk Clock, of real
seal $3.25
Fitted Pocket Companion,
special 65 J
Beautiful Leather Calen
dars, reduced to .. 38
Ladies' Desk Sets, 7 pes.. $7.00
Bill Rooks, real seal and walrus,
special SI. 25
'Oardcises, real seal ana walrus,
speeial ,. .- Sl.OO
Leather Flasks, seal and alligator,
with cup 81.25
$1.50 Playing-card Cases, real wal
rus, for Sl.OO
flusic Rolls and Music Bubs. 7."e
to S6.00
Flat Leather Cuff Cases, very
handy $1.48
Opera Glass Rags, containing finest
glasses. $7.5.) to $25. OO
Thousands of other Leather arti-
ces for gifts at attractive prices.
for Xmas Gifts
Natural Squirrel Four-in-Hand
Scarf, 55 inches lonr, made with
silk fringe at each end and lined
with satin $8.50
Novelty Fur Searf, of white Aus
tralian ermine, niade'with cluster
of four ends finished with heads
and small tails; sale $6.75
prevent the alleged violation of the Min
nesota statutes.
Welfare of Women and Children. ,
WASHINGTON. Dec. lS.-The Senato
passed a bill today authorizing the Sec
retary of Commerce and Iahor to in
vestigate and report on the industrial,
social, moral, educational and physical
condition of women and children work
ers in the United States.
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Merry Christmas
Will soon be here. Don't
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