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THE UNION COUNTY PAPER-E VERIFY NEEDS n7 e Monroe JournA PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS J VOL.23. No. 59. MONROE, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1 $1.50 PER YEAR CASIL THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT." i BEING CHASED 8T A SUB WASN'T SO VERY EXCITING Young Morehead Slink TcIN About Fxerienres on the Out -. SAW TROOPS OFF FOR FKAXCK Being on a boat chased by a Gor man submarine isn't such an uncan ny experience, according to Morehead Stack, the 18-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Stack, who has just re turned from a 9-week s' cruise on a coastwise steamer plying between Norfolk and Boston. Aside from the screams of a few women passengers, said young Stack, the little drama en acted on the sea appeared to be no more than a game of hide and seek. The 'Ontario," a big passenger steamer engaged in coastwise trade, was the ship young Stack was on as an oiler. They were steaming full speed ahead for Boston when a sub marine was sighted. The submarine caught its first glimpse of the big steamer about this time, end sub merged. Realizing the acuteness of the situation, yet remaining perfectly calm, the Captain of the Ontario re versed his engines, and proceeded in a zig-zag course, exposing the end of the ship instead of the broadside tar get which makes such easy marks for the submarines. Whether or not the submarine dis charged a torpedo Morehead was un able to state, but he was almost cer tain that the submarine was of Cer man nationality. American and Brit ish undersea boats were sighted at various intervals along the coast, and they gave the customary salute. This one, however, failed to exhibit the least sign of recognition, and the fact that it submerged on the appearance of the liner led the Captain and all the crew to believe that it was a Ger man undersea boat. A rush was made for the life boats, which were kept suspended constant ly over the sides of the vessel, but there was no panic. The sailors, said Mr. Stack, were unperturbed, and went about their work in the same unconcerned manner. As soon as the danger was over life on shipboard resumed its usual course. Evidently, said Mr. Stack, some thing went wrong with the submarine when it submerged. He noticed, as it left the water line, that one end of the boat listed slightly. Nothing, of course, was ever seen of the subma rine after it left the top. It might have been, if young Stack's surmise as to the engine being disabled is cor rect, that the boat never regained the top. This to be sure, is only a con jecture. Although only eighteen years of age, young Stack has knocked about the world considerably. Two years ago he heard and answered the call of the wheat fields, and for several months lived a rollicking, adven turesome life in the middle west. There he came In contact with all classes of men, and all manners of living. Out to see the world, he and other Monroe companions rode freight trains, begged" meals, and worked like men whenever the oc casion presented Itself. On his return from the wheat fields, Mr. Stack entered Oak Ridge Institute. The nine-months of aca demic training wore on his nerves, it seems, as he no sooner got out of school than he was gone again on another trip. This time it was as seaman on a tramp schooner, plying between Norfolk and South Ameri can points. After leaving the Nor folk port, he discovered that he was on board a ship manned mostly by Germans, and evidently on an indi rect mission of succor to the father land. When they arrived at a South Am erican port, Mr. Stack called upon a United States consul, who effected his release. It was quite a relief to him to secure his discharge, as he would probably have been taken to London If a British or French war vessel had sighted the German ship. Last spring Mr. Stack graduated from Oak Kidge Institute. He had only been home a few weeks when he again became afflicted with the wanderlust, and pulled out for Nor folk. He had been there only a day when he secured a job as machinist helper on an Old Dominion liner that plied up the James River between Norfolk and Richmond. A week of this work soon tired him, and on reaching Norfolk again, he shipped on the Ontario as an oiler. Seamen make big wages during war times. In addition to the regu lar pay, they receive a war bonus of 25 per cent. Mr. Stack, as oiler, was paid $65 a month,' but bis war bonus of 25 per cent brought the sum total of his monthly earnings up to over 181. The captains and chief engineers on the boats that play between Am erican and British ports, who In times of peace earned about $300 per month, now receive about $1000 a month. The submarine risk is so grave that men will not make the trip without the added Inducement of trebled pay. Even ordinary sea men, said Mr. Stack, make anywhere from one to two hundred dollars a month. Board Is thrown in, as usual. The Monroe youth made about three trips on the Ontario. Thirty-six hours of straight running time was required to ouake the trip from Nor folk to Boston, but there was about a two day's lay over in each town. The passenger traffic Is not so good these days owing to the menace of the submarines. Most of their pas sengers, said Mr. Stack, wore naval men returning to their ships from furloughs. Prohibition is AH Right. His experience on the Ontario taught Mr. Stack that prohibition does prohibit. Norfolk is a dry town with the exception of the little boot leg traffic that is carried on in most Southern cities; but Boston is wet. In the former harbor everything went smoothly on board, the men staying sober. But Boston was no sooner reached than everything commenced to go wrong. The men began drink ing; followed by fighting. Several of the negro fir?men on Mr. Stack's firs' trip got drunk when they reached Boston, and one of the pair pulled a pistol on anothrer while they were on shipboard. The darkey retreated from the pistol, reached the side of the boat, and in his haste to escape, Jumped overboard, and was drowned. Coastwise ships are not armed like the trans-Atlantic ships. The navy, however, ever keeps a watchful eye over them, sending out occasion al warnings when submarines were sighted in the vicinity. On several trips United States destroyers convoyed the Ontario through dan gerous stretches, said Mr. Stack. The life-boats, as has already been stated, are kept constantly suspended over the ship. In times of peace they are kept in davits about twenty or thirty feet from the side of the boat. Mr. Stack believes there are a few submarines operating constantly up and down the coast. The govern ment, he said, is taking every pre caution against them. Harbors are guarded by nets, and no ships are al lowed to enter between sun-up and sun-rise. War-Like Scenes on Coast. The people up and down the At lantic seaboard are fully aware of the fact that war Is in progress. Hun dreds of British, French, and Italian warships were seen by Mr. Stack. The United States navy, too, is far from being idle. Battleships are constant ly moving, and are on the alert for any raider that might screw up enough nerve to come within sight. Merchant ships of all nationalities are represented up and down the coast. There are even Austrian and German ships; ships interned for the war which were seized by the gov ernment on the declaration of war. In fact, Austrian and German mer chant ships are being used to convoy American troops to France. Morehead witnessed the departure of hundreds of American troops for France. They were being carried across by a dozen transports, while many battleships, destroyers and con voyers hovered" around them. The sight of the smoke coming from all of these ships looked to Morehead as if the heavens were on fire. Hit boat, the Ontario, stopped to let the warships go by, and he got a glimpse of many soldiers, and they all appear ed to be cheerful. The boats had spread out in fan shape, resembling somewhat a drove of chickens. The Monroe young man relates instances to show how forcibly the war Is being realized in the North. The engineer of the Ontario, on secur ing shore leave, went to Baltimore to visit his family. While out at Bay Shore, an amusement park, he saw one man beat another with a stick because he did not take his hat off when the band played the Star Spangled Banner. In Boston Great Britain has a re cruiting officer to enlist English sub jects in this country for the war. In addition, there is & Scotch bag-pipe regiment that plays in Boston com mon every afternoon In order to stimulate enlistments. There are about 500.000 British subjects in this country, it is said, and to secure a small proportion of this number would insure a large fighting force for the allies. Shot Crap in Jail. Norfolk whiskey drinkers depend almost entirely on negro firemen on the Boston and New York boats to supply them with booze. The police are acquainted with conditions, and watch the firemen closely. A certain ship, said Mr. Stack, came into Nor folk with a small quantity of liquor stored away in a hold. The officers happened to raid the ship, and found the liquor. There was no one to hold responsible for the shipment, so they proceeded to arrest every negro fireman and waiter on board hoping that someone of the bunch would squeal. They were carried to Jail, where all were placed in one big cell. The jailor, the next day, on visiting his prisoners, found them all engag ed in a big crap game! The money was lying on the cement floor, and the darkies were having the time of their lives listening to the rattle of the bones as they spun across the floor. Seamen Exempted. Sailors are exempted from the draft, as they are considered already In the government service. They were required to register, but few did so. United States offices, said Mr. Stack, were not very strict with those who did fail to register, as they realized they were exempted from service. Engineers and licensed sea men are not even allowed to leave the service, so valuable are they to the government in time of war. Can It Be Boat? (Dudley Correspondent of the Page land Journal.) Mr. H. P. Funderburk and others killed an old mother suake while re pairing a bridge a few days ago, and they think a record was established. Inside the old snake they found fifty eight little snakes a few Inches long. Can John Beasley beat this? Before you start to, abusing the neighborhood, hadn't you better take a little Inventory and see what kind of a neighbor YOU are? WILL ERECT HOSPITAL 1UILDIXU AT OXCE City Has Turned Whole Matter of M:uingement Over to I(ourl of I)i- reetor and the Institution Will lie Hun as Public Enterviise to He Sustained and Managed by the People. The Ellen Fitzgerald Hospital will not be a city enterprise in the sense of being run or managed by the City government. In fact, it is the idea to divest the enterprise of all official character and make it a matter for private and patriotic initfative. The City will stand only in the relation of trustee of the property, and the City government will have no hand in the management of the Institution. The aldermen have appointed a board of trustees or directors to have full con trol of the enterprise and to at once erect a building. The board of directors are Messrs. James H. Lee, J. M. Belk. F. G. Hen derson, R. F. Beasley, J. V. Laney. R. A. Morrow and S. O. Blair. The board met Monday night and organ ized, electing Mr. Lee chairman, Mr. Laney treasurer, and Mr. Beasley sec retary. Mayor Sikes was present and stated that it was the idea of the City that the management of the hospital was not a matter of tho City officials and that the directors had been ap pointed with plenary powers to coN lect the subscriptions, construct the building and manage th? institution. The Idea was, said Mr. Sikcs, that the hospital should stand apart from the ordinary affairs of tho town and de pend upon its management and sus tenance to the citizens directly. It should be a public Institution in the broad sense of the word, and one so disconnected from everything else that every man, woman and child could give It undivided allegiance and the most unselfish support. The directors decided to make ar rangements at once for the adoption of plans for building the twenty room section that had heretofore been discussed, in connection with the old residence. The high price of materi al and labor now would make this require all the ten thousand subscrip tion now In hand. Future needs are to be met when they arise. The first installments on the subscriptions are due and payable the first of October, and it will require that long to get work under way. Mr. S. O. Blair was appointed a committee to meet the Union County Medical Society next Monday and ask their co-operation, suggestioi.s, and active support. He was instructed to ask the association to appoint a com mittee of doctors to meet with the di rectors and lend them all the aid and suggestions possible. The Idea that the hospital shall be absolutely on the hearts and minds of the citizens, with no intervening official red tape and detail, is un doubtedly the proper one. The hos pital must be a bigger thing than the ordinary things of town government and should not be subjected to the usual influences of politics and the like. It must stand out as a great and enduring enterprise of the peo ple of Monroe subject to nothing but the needs of humanity and the gen erosity and humane instinct of a peo ple devoted to Its great success. Want Men to Deceive Germans. Washington, Aug. 29. For the first American "camouflage" unit the army chief of engineers today Issued a call for enlistment of "Ingenuous young men who are looking for spe cial entertainment In the way of fool ing Germans." It is planned to or ganize a company of camoufleurs largely from among Iron and sheet metal workers, sign and scene paint ers, corpenters, cabinet makers, stage carpenters, property men, plaster moulders and photographers. These men will devote their wits to devising artificial means of deceiv ing enemy observers, particularly aviators, says a war department an nouncement, "wherever a machine gun is set up, or a trench Is taken and reversed, or a battery of artil lery goes Into action, or a new road Is opened, or a new bridge Is built or a sniper climbs an old building, or an officer creeps out into an advanc ed post to hear and observe." The literal meaning of camouflage, a French music hall term, la "faking. Applicants are asked to communi cate with the chief of engineers, war department. Congressman's Son Failed to Register Madison, Wis., Aug. 29. United States District Attorney A. C. Wolfe announced this afternoon that he would swear out a warrant for the arrest of Byron Nelson, son of Con gressman John M. Nelson, on the ground that the young man did not register under the selective drart law. Nelson was in Canada on registra tion day and has been employed there since on his father's farm. He claims exemption from registration on the ground that he is not now In the United States and has not been since the date or the draft. A United States marshal will leave for Alberta, Cana da, tonight to arrange for the extra dition of young Nelson. 18 Brit ish VcNsel Sunk in Week. London, Aug. 29. An increase in the number of British vessels sunk last week by mines or submarines is shown by the weekly admiralty state ment issued tonight. Eighteen vessels of more than 1600 tons were sent to the bottom as com pared with fifteen the previous week, and five vessels of less than 1600 tons, as against three the previous week. Puzzle Why Is a fiddle like an In tenor noteir in a rue inn; i i HOW GERMAN- PRISONERS AUK KEPT IX THIS STATE Six Hundred Interned at Hot Spring -Near Aslieville, and Are kept In a Summer Hotel Conducted by I'm le Sammy. "A month ago the hotel was con ducted by J. E. Kumbough, and it was open to all comers. Now theSprings station. 'Are these men sat- United States is the uromietor end the guests are exclusively German 5u0 oHicers and 100 members of the crews of ships caught in American port by the beginning of the war in 1914. Then Invisible signs spelled Welcome'; now a four-foot high wire netting, topped by a strand of barbed wire, surrouids the property and is patrolled by khaki-clad men armed with pistols and badged as 'watch men.' These visible, animate 'signs' mean 'Werboten' to those inside, and the translation in unmistabable North Carolina language to those outside is 'Keep Out'! "The handling of these tliens is re garded by the United States govern ment as a somewhat delicate matter. It wishes to treat them considerately, but avoid 'spoiling' them. Matters are now running smoothly, and it is for fear of possible interruption that the officials wish to keep the station closed and eliminate visitors. It has been proposed that soldiers be install ed as guards, but this is regarded as unnecessary and expensive. "The aliens are now on the 'honor' system, practically. Rules are few and unobtrusive. The Germans have a system of regulations for their guidance and committees to enforce them. For examplpe, the regulation against smoking in the writing room is their rule. "But, on the other hand, the au thorities do not wish to be in the at titude of keeping these public ene mies in luxurious idleness while Americans may be stinted for food, and they are irritated at reports which place them In this attitude be fore the people. 'These men do not live like princes,' said an official. 'They are quartered in a hotel meant to house 300 and made to hold 600. they are doubled in rooms or .bunk ed In the halls. It is not true that the government allows $1 a day for their board and they provide their own commissariat.' " 'The government provides all the food,' continued the speakers, 'food of the kind these men have been ac customed to, and it is cooked by Ger man chefs. As these chefs are ex perts, former cooks of big liners, naturally the meals are appetizing. Th food cost to the government Is not' over 50 cents a day per man. As for the 'luxuries' we furnish, see for yourself. "A 'Verboten sign was on the door of the spotless kitchln where a pon derous chef with bushy whiskers looked like Admiral Von Tirpiti in a cook's cap. On the range was an enormous pan of cabbage in a small er receptacle were turnips, in another potatoes. There was a pan of roast beef, two kettles of soup, and on a steamer a pan of beans. 'They like stews and soups,' said the official. AH the bread is rye. The dining room was no less clean. The tables wereiburbs of Hot Springs, doubtless em plain boards and stationary. The crockery was plain and very thick. Distinctions between officers and men are observed here, the ordinary sea men and waiters eating first. "Before the Germans can be put to work there must first be work for them to do, and at present there Is not enough work to 'go round.' They can be put to work, said an official and it Is hoped to have many of them employed on the highway to Tennessee when work on It starts. " 'The Hague convention provides for working enemies,' said an offi cial, 'But not on military works. As a matter of fact the convention is not binding on this country but the department observes It. However, that is aside from our problem, as we have no military works here." 'The location ol the station in the Davidson river section of Pisgah National Forest was urged because the Germans could be used in build ing roads there. The site was con sidered, but inaccessibility, the im possibility of erecting buildings at once, the need for water and sewer systems overcame the advantages. and the hotel property was leased for a year, with the privilege of a year's renewal, at $18,000 a year. It had buildings, water and sewer, and is accessible. "To house the expected thousand who are coming seven barracks, du plicates of army cantonments are building, besides a kitchen and din ing room and bath houses. Eacn barrack is 20x163 feet in size, up-and-down board sides, double-floored, with composition roof and bunks along the walls. The mess hall will be 44x176 feet, the kitchen In the middle. The barrack bath house will be behind its cantonment, its size 14x50 feet, equipped with showers. 'The station hospital is located in the 'Hampton cottage,' that which was built and occupied many yean ago by General Wade Hampton, the noted Confederate general who later was Governor of South Carolina and United States Senator. It is in charge of Dr. Brown of the United States Public Health Service. "Hot firings people seem to be well pleased to have the station there. The feature which most ap peals to them is the concert whica the band of 50 pieces gives each Thursday and Sunday afternoons. July 4th many people came from the surrounding country to hear the band play, and when it did not were much incensed, thinking it was intended to show disrespect to the American holiday. It is stated, however, that the band would have played if it had known music was expected. "Every one in the station seems to be serious. So far as can be seen the Germans are contented, but there is an absence of joking and laugh ing. Among so many Americans, even If confined In a foreign land, one imagines there would be some merriment, some display of humor, but tlieiie are lacking in th Hot isnea with their treatment 7 was asked of a naturalized German who had talked with some of the mem bers of German officers' families. "Oh, yes,' said he. 'And they are glad to be here instead of being in France?' Emphatic was his answer: 'No! 99 out of 100 of these men would be in the war if they could ge there.' "Some of the Germans work for the government 50 ship carpenters being engaged in the construction of additional barracks on the grounds, on whose completion a thousand more Germans will be broueht to Hot Splines. Others are working as common laborers and others as me chanics. The station officials decline to say what pay is given the work ers, but it runs from $20 to $30 a month, it is learned from other sources. "Some of the aliens work in the 7-acre vegetable garden, where a fine crop of food is growing. Others have their own little patches, mark ed by a border of white stones, where flowers and vegetables grow togeth er. Cultivating the land appeals to the German taste, but not all of the hotel guests know all there is to know about vegetables. One ship captain has a little patch in which he is cultivating beans and corn, and likewise one large and thriving Jimpson weed which is impudently taking advantage of the poor man's belief that it is some strange Amer ican vegetable which has sprung up from a former planting. 'The thing was half-grown before I noticed it,' said an official, 'and now I haven't the heart to tell the captain It is a weed.' But there is some humor at the fence. Some persons who have not informed themselves of conditions re gard the station as a government'; maintained curiosity, a sort of me nagerie of two-headed, three-legged foreigners. One of them came to a guard station, a youth wearing an imitation cow-boy sombrero and a suit of clothes that accentuated an extreme tailor's design. "Say," he announced, "Where is he, I want to see him." The imperturbable guard demanded, "See who?" "The head man,. the big mutt," responded the youth. "That's the man I wanter see." The guard, considering asked. "What you want to see him about," to which reply was made, "I wanter go through and see what's here. I wanter see everything; don't want to miss none." The guard pointed to another station. "You ask them two men there which is the big' mutt," said he, and turned a wink on the by standers. "That feller must be a gen eral or something," remarked one. In a few minutes the "general or some thing" was seen hastening from the "big mutt" station toward the su- bittered toward both the United States and Germany. WAR COSTIXti BKJ MONEY More Than $21,000,000 a Day During August. War expenditures of the United States, Including allied loans, have mounted during August to more than $24,000,000 every 24 hours. Two thirds of the great sum is representee! by advances to the allies. The United States has been spending dally dur ing August for its own needs an av erage of $8,088,652. The allies have been receiving an average daily al lowance of $16,375 000, including cash already paid and the new Rus sian credit which will be paid short ly. The total daily expenditure dur ing August thus reached $24,463,- ! 652 Since war was declared 140 days ago the Treasury has paid out a total of $2,387,490,086, of which $1,630, 500.000 has been advanced the en tente governments. The average daily disbursement during the period of the war has been $17,053,500. The aver age dally payment to the allies during the 140 day period has been $11, 650,000. the remaining $5,403,500 representing the cost of carrying on the government and war expendi tures for the American army and navy. The total of $1,630,500,000 ad vanced the allies thus far is less by $425,900 000 than the total authoriz ed credits which, with the Russian loan, aggregate $2,066,400,000, or more than the entire proceeds of the first Liberty loan. The remaining $425,900,000 is subject to the enten te governments' checks upon the American Treasury under certain con ditions agreed upon at the time the credits were authorized. The cost ot raising and maintain ing the American army and of In creasing the naval forces and main taining the naval establishment has risen from the comparatively small amount expended at the time w-ar was declared to the present tremen dous daily average and is not yet fairly under way. With the new national army under arms, the ship building and aircraft construction program well nmle way, expenses will soon reach great ly higher levels. A conservative esti mate of the Treasury dally expendi ture by the beginning of the new year places the total at from $35,000,000 to $40,000,000. It is a mistake to suppose that the sun Is supported In the sky by 1U beams. ENTENTE GOVERNMENTS WERE MUCH UNPREPARED Some Allied Foreign Office Hud Ex. ie led Further Discussion. GEKMAX KEVOLT IS EXPECTED) Washington. Aug. 29. Discussion of President Wilson's rejection of the pope's peace proposals in diplomatic circles today revealed that even some of the entente governments were un prepared for the prompt Tashion in which the President disposed of a matter of such tremendous import ance. There had been no doubt at any time as to the general nature of the reply and the understanding is that the United States was generally look ed upon as the nation to speak first, but some of the allied foreign offices expected further discussion. It is realized, however, by the en tente representatives in Washington that President Wilson must have had some good and sufficient reason for acting so quickly. Speculation as cribes the motive to a desire to im press favorably the great Russian convention at Moscow while the body is still In a receptive state. It also was suggested that the President might have wished to anticipate obstructive action by the pacifiist cohorts in ana out of Congress. No rejoinder from the Vatican Is expected here In the immediate fa ture. Comment from the press of Europe is awaited with interest. Bit ter attacks upon the American note by the German press and possibly condemnatory speeches by German officials are fully expected. While the Germans may wage war with added desperation because of the sweeping indictment of their meth ods, it is confidently believed here that the spirit of revolt will develop steadily and rapidly among the peo ple in Germany, bringing nearer the day when they will assert themselves to the point where President Wilson may feel safe in listening to peace overtures. President Wilson realizes the force of objection that has come from some quarters to what might be regarded as a disposition on his part to impose a form of government on Germany. It can be stated that nothing was far ther from his thought than such a disposition. He meant that the word of the present autocratic rulers of Germany can not be taken for any thing that ia to endure unless sap ported by the will of the people them selves. As to whether Germany has an imperial or a republican form of government, it is conceded that the remainder of the world has nothing to do. The struggle for parliamentary re form Is being watched with tho keen est interest, and while it was said at the state department today that do official advices are as yet at hand re garding the developments, it would not be a matter of surprUa if there were some sudden and important manifestations of the popular will In Germany. When the responses to Pope Bene dict's peace proposals will go forward from the allied government is no known to the state department. Approval of the President's note was expressed generally at the eapi tol today by all members of all par ties. KEREXSKY STARTS HIS BLOOD AXD IltOX RULK Gups of Shattered Army Filled With lioyal Troops Resisting Picked German Forces. While the Russians west of Fork shani again have deserted their posts, thereby permitting the Teutonie al lies to make further gains, in the re gion of Ocna and Kezdl Vasarhely they are giving battle to the Invader and on both sectors have repulacd strong attacks. Between Ireshtl and Fokshanl a majority of the men comprising the Russian regiments deserted their trenches and fled, but the Russian commanders have taken steps to re store the former Btatus of the line by filling the gap with loyal men. Following the reports of fresh dis affection among the Russians on the? east Bukowina front, which came prior to the commencement of the retrograde movement in southern Moldavia. Premier Kerensky in a speech at the closing session of the Moscow conference let It be known again that order was to be brought out of chaos by the putting to death) of the cowards who threw down their arms In the face of the enemy. The possibility that the rule of "blood and iron" already has begun with the deserters before Fokshanl is indicated in the latest Russian official communication which says that one of the cowardly regiments was "dis persed." A U usual when the Germans see a faltering among their foes, they have thrown Into the battle line irr Moldavia some of their tried attack ing troops. On the Balnsizza plateau of th Austro-ltalian theater General Cador na is giving the Austrlans no ret. keeping up his Intensive attack along the entire front. New raffia of considerable Importance in tae general scheme of the Italian commander-in-chief's offensive have been made and at several points where the Austrlans have striven to hokr back the Italians or to recapture lost positions, they have been repalsod. More than 500 new prisoners have been taken by the Italians. On the front in France and Bel glum no important engagements hare taken place.
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