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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
Loaded With Lard and Bacon
and Carried Banners and
Illuminations.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
ROTTERDAM, Dec. 1.-THE Bel
gian relief ship Levenpool from New
York has been mined or torpedoed.
She was in sinking condition when
last reported.
The Levenpool is owned by the
Pool Shipping company Of West
Hartlepool of England, but was under
charter to the American commission
for the relief of Belgium. When she
left New York she flew the Belgian
relief flag under which she was sup
posedly immune from attack by any
belligerents. She is Of 4,SS4 tons dis
placement and was built in 1911.
A second dispatch received here
said that the Levenpool did not sink,
but was beached on Mucking Flat.
The British steamer Nyroca. arriv-
ing here today, reported that she
passed the Levenpool in sinking con-
dition near Kentishknock.
Her crew, officers of the Nyroca re-
port, were taken Off by the steamer
Pandion and torpedo boat. The tor
pedo boat was standing BY, the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
NIGHT RIDERS
THREATEN PAPER
Send Word That They Will Blow up
the Building by First Of
the Year.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
ADA, Okla, Dec. 17.-"Night rid.
ers" who burned the barns Of two
county commissioners as protest
against compulsory dipping of cattle
to eradicate the fever tick. have threat
Iened to dynamite the plant Of the
Ada Evening News because of an edi.
torial regarding their activities.
The News, in an editorial, said II
was high time that the law abiding
element put stop to such barbarism
and anarchy"
The following anonymous letter
postmarked Ada, was received by the
newspaper: editor Evening Paper:
Your paper accuses Che socialists oi
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BEL LGIAN RELIEF SHIP
RAN AGAINST A MINE

Nyroca officers said, and signaled that
no further assistance was needed.
It is understood here that the food
stuffs aboard the relief ship were paid
for by English contributions. If re-
ports that the ship has been beached
are found true, it is possible, part Of
the cargo may be salvaged.
Loaded With Bacon.
NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Belgian re-
lief ship Levenpool sailed from New
York November "a with $50 tons of
lard and bacon for relief work in Bel
gium, destined for Rotterdam.
No members Of the relief commits
sion were on board. She carried only
her regular crew.
Because she was flying the commits
sion's flag, officials expressed doubt
today that she was torpedoed and felt
that If she met with mishap, it was
due to striking a mine.
The Levenpool was fully equipped
with side banners, deck banners and
signal boards, indicating to belliger-
ent vessels that she was relief ship,
officers of the commission said when
the United Press bulletin was read to
them. IN addition she carried a full
lighting system, illuminating these
banners at night and making It prac-
tically out Of the question that her
identity might be mistaken.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
Senators Discuss the Question Today and il
Will Likely be Settled and Extended
by This Evening.
PROSPERITY DEPENDING ON WARFARE
Senator Penrose Says War Saved Democratic
Administration from the Greatest Col
lapse Ever Witnessed

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service]
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.-Poutical
strife in congress today switched
from the house to the senate with tha
resolution extending war taxes an.
other year.
With the sixteen democratic ma
jority and no republican filibuster
threatened. final enactment OF the
resolution before adjournment tonight
was in prospect. President Wilson
will probably approve 1t tomorrow.
Senate republicans centered their
fire on the proposal for years ex.
tension Of the taxes. They insisted
upon limiting it to three to six
months.
Chairman simmons Of the finance
committee made a formal report
showing the necessity for extending
the emergency taxes to prevent .
treasury deficit. u,
A holiday recess OF congress starts
tonight II the war tax resolution
passes the senate.
House democrats today were or
dered to remain here until the senate
disposes OF the war tax.
When this act was passed, Wa all
expected the war would be ended long
before this" said Senator Simmons,
''but now no man can see the end."
Senator Penrose declared Simmons
figures gave little idea OF the dsplor-
able condition Of the treasury.
This is blamed on the war In
Europe" said Penrose, while goods
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
MONTENEGRO NOW BEING CRUSHED
BA!! kAAS

UNITED p Leased Wire service.l
SALON Doc. 17.--BuIoarlan
troops .nued to hold the line
about y g niles from the Greek from
tier, g Ing no intention Of cross
Ing, q ding to dispatches received
here Slay. AnoIo-French military
auth les, however, believe invas-
lonS>>>y either BuIpars or Germans
will begin within = few days. In
withdrawing Greek troops from Sa-
lonika, General MoschopuIos sent a
formal notice to General Sarraii de-
clarinq: "The Hellenic army has
been ordered to retire for tho pur-
pose Of leaving the ground free from
the belIioerent armies"
LOST $4,000 MEN.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1.-THE Bull
oarIans lost $1,000 In the cerna river
fighting, according to advlees reeeiv-
ed here today.
AFTER MONTENEGRO NOW.
PARIS, Dec. 17.-Austria has sent
reinforcements into Montenegro and
10 pushing with great energy her cam
palgn to capture or annihiiate the
Montenegrln army.
Dispatches received here today said
the Austrians are advancing on sev-
enty milo front. Tho Montenegrins are
resisting stubbornIy along the Lin
river, but lack heavy artillery and am
munitlon to check the invasion. In
habItants Of eastern Montenegro are
fleeing before the approach Of the
Austrian army which now occupies a
front extending from twenty to thirty
miles within the Montenegrin frontier.
At the same time furious fighting
has been resumed between the BuIgars
and Serbs In Albania. Three thousand
BULGARIAN troops forced o. crossing Of
the river DrIna after two days bat
tie In severe snow storm. Tho
Serbs brought up reInforcements and
threw tho Bulgars back on the fol-
lowing day.
Athens dispatches today reported
that 10000 Bulgarian and German
troops are now massed at Gleveil and
Dclran. To thesn forcss Will, soon be
added fifty thousand AustrIans.
Heavy artillery ls being moved
southward and there Is every indlca-
tion that the attack on Anglo-French
forces north Of saIonlka Is about TO
begin.
Advlces from Geneva today said
italian troops landed In Albania arc
not moving forward to the relief Of the
Serbs, but have encamped near the
Adriatic coast.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
Tomorrow Evening is tn Date
for Wedding of President Wilson
ward Of Mrs. Gait.

WdTu VI HdiL.
Other unofficial guests will be Mrs.
Galt's aged negro nanny" and other
old servants Of the Boiling family at
Wytheville. Va. Mathew H. Maury of
Admission, Ala, Mrs. Galt's brother-in-
law, and Mrs. VIM. E. Boiling of Lex
ington, KY, her sister-in-law, are not
ale to be present.
Reports that the wedding :oney-
moon will be spent on Jelyl Island,
Ca, were in circulation today. Secre-
tary and Mrs. McAdoo are said to
ave picked out the spot.
The island is controlled by New
York millionaires' cluo, but has sew.
eral palatial private cottages and a
sumptuous hotel. 1t is about ten
miles from Brunswick, Ga, and no in
terlopers are allowed to land.
William Rockefeller made the island
known to the reading public few
years ago when he fled there for
refuge from subpoena servers sent by
the congressional money trust" prob
ers
The wedding cake has been shipped
from st. Paul, Mimi, and is here. 1t
is heart-shaped, iced with orchids.
orange blossoms and lilies of th.a yaa-
ley There are also little cupids
ringing wedding bells with miniature
red streamers. The cake is six inches
thick and twenty inches in diameter.
It was baked by Mrs. Marion Cole
flasher. assisted by her husband, and
Miss Pansy Bowen, of St. Paul. Con-
gressman Van Dyke was assured Of its
acceptance by the president
G. NJ. Reed. superintendent OF rail-
way mails at st. Paul, sent word
ahead to all mail clerks to handle It
with care" and to see that Its pass
age was expedited.
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ENG[A AND

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON, Dec. 17.-Efforts to re.
move Sir Edward speyar and Sir Ern
est cassel from the prIvy council be-
Cause they arc naturalixed Brltlshers
OF German birth, failed today.
The kings bench, the lord chief
justice presiding, dismissed quo war
santo wrlts In proceedings recently
brought by citizen Of Great Britain.
Sir Edward speyer was educated In
Germany but went to London twenty
eight years ago when he attached
himself to the great Speyer banking
firm headed by his father, with con-
nections In London, New York and
Frankfort. Sir Ernest Cassel was
born In Cologne.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
AUS TRIA

CUnited Press Leased Wire Servical
LONDON, Dec. 17.-keports that
Hungarian leaders are demanding
peace, were revived today by tho
Morning Post, which printed Huda-
pest letter today, reporting peace
demonstration In the Hungarian par
lament on December 7. Count karo-
VII, the independent leader, declared
that since the central powers had do
feated ali their enemies and oon-
quered Serbia, they should offer
peace terms, tho correspondents re-.
ported. The Hungarlans, tho count
was quoted az saying, have done
their share to bring victory to tho
Austro- German cause and therefore
have right to urge peace negotia-
tlona.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
daughter, Mrs. Cothran and grand
daughter little Iosephina Cothrau

UduSuleF, llItl6 JCSepHlu6 SolllI du.
The BRIDES family will be represent.
led by her mother, Mrs. VIM. H. Boil.
ing: three sisters, Miss Bertha Boil.
ing, Mrs. Alexander H. Gait and Mrs
Matthew III. Maury, Of Admission, Ala,
her five brothers, John Randolph Boil
ing. Richard Wilmer Boiling and Julian
B. Boiling. of this city: DR.. VIM. E
Boiling of Lexington, KY, and Rolfe
E. Boiling, Of Panama: her brother-in.
law, Alexander H. Calf, Of Washing
ton; three sisters-in-law, Mrs. Julian
B. Boiling Mrs. Rolfe E. Boiling and
Mrs Richard Boiling.
Among close friends of the bridal
couple present will be Dr. Cary T
Grayson. the presidents naval aide
Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, member
|of the white house family circle and
friend of Mrs. Gait, and Miss Alice
Gertrude Gordon, intimate friend and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17

limited Press Leased wire SerVlCe.J
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17-Wedding
and honeymoon plans Of President
Wilson are not to be upset bv inter
national events. The honeynt IN is
not likely to be postponed or short
ened by the situation vita Austria, 1t
is learned today. 1t will be Spen. not
far away and the president Will be in
close touch with the white house,
Secretary Lansing will be able to
visit the president if dec;slv. action
regarding Austria becomes necessary.
1t il believed this will not become
necessary within fortnight.
The exact hour of tomorrow's we'd
ding was still unnamed. 1t WAS be-
lieved certain, however, It would be
performed during the evening as orig
inally planned.
The license was sent today to the
Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, rector of
st. Margaret's Episcopal church. The
wedding ring, a narrow circlet @:
gold, initiated '"W. w. to II. b. G.."
was nesting in the presidents waist
coat pocket.
White house attendants were busy
packing travelling bags and at Mrs.
Galt's home florists began decorating.
There was no rehearsal today Of the
ceremony.
The list Of wedding guests numbers
about thirty, confined mostly to the
immediate family Of the president and
Mrs. Gait. OF the presidents family
there will be his three daughters, Miss
Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis B..
Sayre and Mrs. VIM. G. McAdoo, his
son-in-law, Secretary Of the Treasury
McAdoo; Joseph Wilson, the presi-
dents brother, with Mrs. Wilson, and
her sister. hxs. Anne Howe with her
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17

worth thousands Of dollars are COM
ing In free OF duty. The war has
saved the party In power from the
most gigantic collapse ever wit
messed In any civilized country. II
we had had no war the BLACKLIST times
In history would have been witnessed
in this country--worse than the days
OF Cleveland"
Senator Smoot offered an amend
ment limiting the taxes to Juno 80.
Commenting on democratic asser.
tions that prosperity existed, Smoot
said he preferred prosperity mot
dependent upon the roaring of cannon
and bursting Of shrapnel and the
number OF widows and orphans that
can be made"
New Ambassador 20 Mexico.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Henry p.
Fletcher was appointed ambassador to
Mexico today by President Wilson.
Fletcher was appointed ambassador
to Chile from Pennsylvania In 1914.
His salary as ambassador to Mexico
will be the same, $17.50O. The matter
of his successor at Santiago has not
been taken up.
Fletcher is . republican. He was
chosen because Of his insight into
South and Central American politics.
It is believed the president will con-
slider . man from Indiana rs Fletch-
er's successor In Chile since It long
has been the custom to appoint the
ambassador to Mexico from that
STATE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
|lUSTR|A'S ANCOhA EXCUSE
| HAS REACHED WASHINGTON
Mote is About One Thousand Words in Length
and Was to be Placed Before
Cabinet Today.
hHERE WILL Be NO DIPLOMATIC BREAK
First Reply Is Worded to Please the Austrian
People, but Next One Will Probably
be Less Defiant.

Hunted Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Austria'
reply to the Ancona note is in the
hands of the state department. II
gas received shortly after midnight.
It is now being decoded and will be
placed before Secretary Lansing Inn
nediately.
The note Is about 1000 words long
II took about thirty hours for It's cod
big and transmission, having been
handed to Ambassador Penfleld al
boon Wednesday.
It will be made public only after
Secretary Lansing and President viii
|son have studied It and every effort
VIM be made to get the answer decod-
Ia IN time for the secretary OF state
y lay it before the cabinet at its
neeting today.
II was found Impossible to get tho
aoks decided IN time for Secretary
lansing to take It to the cabinet
neeting. The secretary took, instead,
an Informal communication from Am
bassador Penfield which had preceded
tAe note. Secretary Lansing also re.
ported on his conversations with Bar
"a zwiedinek yesterday. The note
lsef was sent by special messenger
b the cabinet meeting about thirty
hinutes after It convened. There was
rery evidence that the note fails
nmrletely to meet the American de-
nands 1t was thought to be evasive
|nd will undoubtedly necessitate an
sther and stronger message.
Concessions will Come Later.
BERLIN, (via Amsterdam) Dec. II.
berlin does not expect any diplo-
hatic break between Austria and the
United States as result of Austria.s
bilure to comply promptly with
American demands, In her reply to
re Ancona note.
Austria is willing to- make impor-
INT concessions to prevent such a
keak, according to information re-
ftiyed here Another exchange Of
fues probably will clear the whole
guation
The position taken by the Austrian
nreign office in its reply. not only Is
Earthly approved here, but Is exactly
ne attitude Austria was expected to
Il was pointed out by officials to-
IN that to have complied meekly
Nth the American demands at once
sould have cost Austria much in
Eest1ge and would have brought
1wn popular denunciation upon the
lustrian government. Austria hav-
maintained her position in a dig
med manner in her reply, can now
acefully yield to America in a sub
4uent note," said one German ON
ITO have bowed down to Wash
ton in the reply 1T has just deliv-
"a would have raised storm of
ptest in Austria. There is every,
ason for believing that the Austro-
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GERMANY

[United Press Leased Wire Servicel
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 17.-Destruc-
tIon Of German Zeppelin and the
death Of the entire crew was reported
by travellers arriving here today from
Brussels.
The Zeppelin was passing over tho
outskirts Of Namur, headed for Ypcs
with heavy cargo Of bombs, the
travellers said. What caused the ac-
cident is unknown.
Three peasants, working In nearby
fields, were arrested ana sent to
Germany in an effort to keep the
news from becoming public, the trav-
eiers stated.
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TURKEY

United Press Leased Wire Service j
cONSTANTlNOPLE, Dec. II. (vIa
Amsterdam. .)-Turklsh artillery drove
off two enemy transports attempting
TO discharge troops In tho ArI Burno
region, Il was OFFICIALLY announced to-
day. The war office also reported that
the Anslo-French fired about three
thousand shells against the Turkish
center, almost without result.
[The Turkish ofncial statement
gives further indication that the allies
are sending fresh troops to the OAR
|danelles.1
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
Aeokuk, Muscatine and Dav-
port Asked for the Meet
ing Next Year.

& .
nS,.eo nr.o Press Leased Wire Service.l ]
nIuMWA, Iowa, Dec. 1.-THE
v-sixth - annual session OF the Iowa
~ Grange which has been in con-
eon ta here since Tuesday, has made
Wy IN grange work. The attend
mas been large and interest TAX
- .ne many matters brought to the
.on Of the order At present
are l20 oranges with an aggre-
membership Of 10000.
q. 2. Judson. of Balfour, was elected
~ MASTER for the year 1916. This
tne twenty-second time he has
~ nonored with the office. The
~ omcers elected. follow:
s.seer-J. r.. Mclean, Wilton
II. Thyloe. Ouknloeoa,
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RUSSIA

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
PETROGRAD, Dec. H.-Russian
troops have occupied the Important
Persian city Of Hamadan, 1t was OH
ciaIly announced today.
Hamadan lies 165 miles southwest
Of Teheran and has population OF
about 10000. Trade routes from Bag
dad, Tabriz, Ispahan and Teheran
meet at Hamadan, making . city OF
considerable commercial Importance.
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Predictions hx 1aft.

1900
lUnited Press Leased Wire Service.I
FOND DU LAC, Wis. Dec IL
Former President William Howard
Taft told interviewers here today that
Senator LaFollette has no chance for
the republican presidential nomina-
ton. 'He has about as much chance
as have-and I'm out Of politics." he
said.
TAFT declared the prosressives are
coming back into the G. o. P. fold and
that the republican convention will
be harmonious.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
Captain Lanae Resigned.

limited Press Leased Wire Servtce.1
MUSCAT1NE, Iowa, Dec. 17.-Cap-
tain H. F. Lange, commander OF bat
terry G., Of the l. N. G., sent his resig-
nation to Adjutant Logan today to take
effect January 1. An election to fill
the vacancy will be called soon.
Lange is lieutenant colonel on the
governors staff and will retain that
position.
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burning up those barns. We did and
we will blow up your of,ice by Janu.
ary 1. You watch. Our plans are
complete. You may think this a joke.
Watch and see. (Sfgned) Red Flag"
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|TAl||. !

II UNITED Press Leased Wire service.]
LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE Italian lin
er Porto said has been sunk by SUBJ
marine.
The Porto Said was owned by the
italian Maritime society Of Genoa, at
which port she was registered. She
was built In 1884 and displaced 5,3o1
tons. Presumably she was sunk In the
Mediterranean.
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/ American controversy win be solved
! just as the trouble over the Lusi
tania was settled.
The Vienna press, apparently at the
| suggestion OF the government, is re
framing from sounding defiance In
editorials on the Ancona affair Some
of the newspapers declare that Aus
tria has no desire for any but friend
ly relations with America and assert
that Austria is willing to accept the
American viewpoint II washington
can submit proper proofs.
These comments are taken as fur.
ther Indication that the Austrian gov
ernment does not intend to force &
break.
Two More Notes.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 1.-Two more
notes are the slight barriers toS a
[against . breach OF diplomatic -.
,tions between Austria and the Unitel
States. These must be exchanged be
fore = decision IL reached regarding
the Ancona incident.
The United States is TO reply to
Austria's memorandum and upon Aus
tria's following re1oinder will depend
the future relations Of the two powers
Whether the issue will be continued
friendship or rupture. is most uncer.
tain. It depends largely on this gov
ernment's attitude toward Austria'a
request for the evidence upon which
the disavowal demand is based.
Increased tension evident in all Of
fetal quarters, today gave grave sug.
gestion OF the result. Indications are
uniform that this governments next
note will be an ultimatum. It may re-
cite the evidence asked for, but it is
certain to reiterate sharply the de-
mand for Immediate compliance under
an open threat OF severing oficial re-
lations.
High officials insist the United
States will not yield one whit, unless
Austria produces evidence overwhelm-
ingly contradicting that now possess
ed here and also contradicting its own
previous admiralty statement. Neither
will the state department consent to
enter a long interchange Of notes, it
Is stated.
The Austrian note was expected dur
ing the day. Transmission in section
by Ambassador Penfield Is responsible
for the delay. President Wilson has
given Secretary Lansing detailed in
structions regarding the response to
be made If the text corresponds with
unofficial reports.
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Tho Rope Broke.

The Rope Broke.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. IA
Wholesale "out Of Jail by Christmas"
plot was frustrated here early today
when rope by which the prisoners
were lowering themselves to the
ground broke, causing Ben Goldstein
to fall twenty feet breaking his leg.
Thirty others were waiting at the top
OF the rope.
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Storm Warning Issued.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Dec. ia storm warn
ing for the great lakes was issued by
the weather bureau today. A heavy
wind and rainstorm is moving rapidly
northward. Snow and sleet are ex-
pected. Cloudy and colder was the
official forecast.
Fifty persons were injured by, falls
on icy pavements in Chicago today.
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Looking for Murderer.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-Police today
were grilling number OF suspects In
connection with the murder of Patrol
man John G. Burke, shot down while
searching for bandit who has terror
lied the south side.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
To be Sold as Junk.

CHICAGO, Dec. 17.-The "Fool
Killer" Chicago's lost submarine, was
|resurrected again today from the bed
Of the Chicago river, where it had
been buried in the mud for twenty-one
years.
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81. 900 Reward offered

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Dec IA reward OF
$1,000 was offered by Police Chief
Healey today for the capture Of the
"red pepper" bandit who murdered
Patrolman John C. Burke late yes
terday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
SpeskInu Of Speed.

Speaking Of Speed.
Omaha Bee: If the allies had ad-
vanced with, the celeritv at marks
their retirement in Serbia, differ
ent tale might have been told.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-17
Before the cabinet.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-President
Wilson and the cabinet today read
Austria's unsatisfactory reply to the
American note on the sinking OF the
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