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VON KLUGK GIVES U? TOALLIES 14,000 Surrender ; in France. INVADERS IN RETREAT —; — 170,000 is 300,000 Russians Repor ed in Belgium. : I GERMAN ®ER HELA SU'< Teutons Are Collecting Forces For Stand East of Amiens—Berlin Reports Germans Repulse Foe—Roumanian Cabinet Resigned—Change May Be Prelude to Alliance With Russia—Austrian Losses Are Confirmed. Thp correspondent of the Central News at Dieppe transmits a report that the German army under General von K.luck has been forced to surrender, consists of 14,000 men. The Germans are collecting their straggling forces from the northwest and preparing for a stand east of Amiens. They are on a semicircular line that takes in St. Quentin, Guise and Vervins on their right and then swings rapidly southward toward Rethel and Aisne River lines to the neighborhood of St Menehould, which was abandoned by the crown prince’s army, and everything pointed to a renewal of serious fighting. The German general staff gave out the following announcement from Berlin: “In the western theater of war the right wino of our army has been WieFln h&v?WlWcJsiVe battles. The Frenhc, who endeavored to break through out lines, were victoriously defeated. At other points where there has been fighting no decisive results have been reached.” The army of Crown Prince Frederick William, forming the German left and the pivotal position of the German battle front, has Joined In the general retreat of the invaders. Moreover, the tardy recession of the crown prince from a position bj tween Verdun and Toul, where he had been attacking the line of southern fortifications of the forme- c’ty, probably will result in disaster. There is a grave probability that they will be cut off in the Argonnes south of Verdun. <. A dispatch from Bordeaux says: The last stand of the Germans is being made by the crown prince’s army south of the Argonnes. A dispatch from Bucharest, via Rome, says the cabinet has resigned, a new ministry is being formed and it is strongly rumored here that the change will be a prelude to a Roumanian alliance with Russia. The feelings of the Roumanian people is distinctly pro-Russian. An official report from Berlin states that a British submarine sank the German cruiser Hela. A majority of the crew was rescued, according to the Berlin report. London and Paris both report that General Von Dergoltz went to Ant--1 werp and offered peace to the Bel- » glans, saying that they would be protected and their losses guaranteed. The offer was rejected. Uncensored press messages from Galicia to Vienna confirm the disaster to the Australian armies. These are now compelled to act on the defensive. It is an open secret that J the position of the Austrian force is untenable and that their surrender is inevitable and imminent. Meanwhile Cossacks are scouring the > country. Numerous Galicians are ‘ flocking to this city. PARIS — The official communique •ays: “1. —On our left wing we have over, taken the rear guard and eyen the plain army <j>f the enemy. Our troops have reoccUpied Amiens, which has been abandoned by the German forces. The enemy appears to be offering resistance on the line of the River Aisne. “2.—ln the center the enemy appears also to be preparing to resist our forces. On the hills northwest and north of Reims, betwe.en the Argonne and the Meuse the enemy continues to fall back. “3. —Our right wing in the Woevre .district has succeeded in relieving the fort of Troyon, which had been vicjlently attacked on several occasions, 'during the last few days. “In Lorraine our pursuing forces are holding their own against the Germans. The morale and sanitary conditions of our army continue to be excellent.” PARIS — Emperor William’s -‘gh* armies in France have fled is

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GENERAL SMITH DORRIEN I British Army Officer On Duty in France. IBP Photo bj American Press Association.

disorder again before the victorious French and British troops. The German center, which the kaiser had ordered to pierce th e French front, is now far north of Vitry-le-Francois, where the supreme attack was made, and the German lines in general have been driven back more than half way to Belgium. Establishment of the headquarters of the crown prince at Montfaucon, eighteen miles northeast of Saint Menehold, his previous base, indicates an intention of the armies he commands to retreat into Germany. German Disaster Complete. The rout of the Germans probably will terminate in a complete disaster in that a great part of their forces will be cut off in the Argonne forests and south of Verdun, according to a statement made by M. Millerand, minister of war, at Bordeaux. -Vo?ki'd<f--mfjr'df Vlvtory. LONDON — The war press bureau issued this statement: “All day yesterday tfe enemy stubbornly disputed the passage of the River Aisne by our troops, but in spite of the difficulty of forcing the river in the face of a strong opposition nearly all the crossings were secured by sunset. “On our right and left the French troops were confronted with a similar task, in which, like ourselves, they w ere successful. Many more prisoners were taken. “It is reported that the German crown prince has been driven back, and that he has moved his headquarters from St. Menehold to Mont Faucon.” Russ Army in Belgium. An Antwerp dispatch says Russian troops estimated to number between 170,000 to 300,000 are now" in. Belgium. The huge force has been landed at Ostend by British transports, fortytwo of which were engaged in the service. 27,000 FELL IN LIEGE BATTLE Belgian Soldiers Reported Killed in Heroic Defense. LONDON — A telegram to the Observer from a correspondent at Antwerp dated last Thursday says: “The authorities are preparing an official casualty list of the operations ct Liege and I am informed it will show that no fewer than 27,000 Belgian soldiers were killed in that heroic defense. “It had been learned that on the occasion of the bomb dropping, which nearly damaged the royal palace, the signal was given by a German spy with the aid of a powerful motor lamp. He took up h.is stand near the palace’ and directed the airship where to aim. He was caught while doing so and shot.” FRENCH LOSSES ARE HEAVY Out of All Proportions to Those Suffered by British. PARIS — No full casualty lists for the French forces have been published, but all accounts agree that ! their losses are heavy and out of all I pioportion to those suffered by the J British, and only inferior to the Germans. The most costly was the first engogement at Verdum, where the French losses were at least 30,000 dead and woflnded. At Charleroi and during the ! hurried retreat afterward the French j losses were heavy. During the fight on I the Marne river the French also lost | heavily. Gangs of navvies spent some thirty hours in burying the dead. v Eight Explorers Rescued. WASHINGTON, D. C— A dispatch received by the revenue cutter service from Captain Cochran of the revenue cutter Bear brings the news that the cutter has rescued eight members of the Stefanson expedition, a part of which was caught in the ice floes of the far northwest about a year ago.

BOSS VICTORIES IN GALICIAGROWING Foe Loses 300,000 Men and 1,000 Guns In Galicia, PRUSSIAN ATTACK IS PLANNED Austrian Crown Prince With Army Whose Capitulation Is Immiment— Russian Troops Sent to Re-enforce General RennenkampFs Forces— Austrians tb Occupy Prezmysl. LONDON — A reasonable estimate, says a Times Petrograd dispatch, places the Austrian losses in Galicia at 300,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners, or nearly one-third of their forces. They have also lost, the dispatch says, 1,000 guns, more than two-thirds of their available artillery. LONDON — A dispatch to the Central News from Rome reports that a telegram from Petrograd says the Austrian crown prince, Archduke Charles Francis. Is with the Austrian army whose capitulation is regarded as imminent. PETROGRAD — According to the officials of the war office the Rusiuns are again assuming the offensive in East Prussia. First line troops have been withdrawn from the Austrian theater of war and have been sent to the aid of General Rennenkampf.s columns which have been hard pressed. It is understood hero, however, that these operations are intended chiefly to hold the Germans in East Prussia in check and precent them being w ithdrawn to go to the assistance of the Austrians. It is stated that the great mass of the Austrians who escaped slaughter in the fighting that has been in progress in eastern Galicia, from the Dneister to the Russian Poland frontier, have reached the west bank c? the San River and are reforming. They will endeavor to hold the great fortress of Przemysl and the railway line extending northward to Jaroslav. Przemsyl is a first-class fortification filled with supplies of all kinds, but it can only prove a rallying point ■for .he .* uas the-mwsMM** -agecontinuing a relentless prusuit. The Austrian army, which is retreating on Przemsyl includes one whole German army corps and part of another. Thes forces are lost to Germany for the duration of the war, for they will be locked up in Przemsyl. which the Russians must take by a prolonged siege. ZEPPELIN KILLS 23 RUSSIANS Germans In Craft Put Out White Flag and Then Drop Bombs. LONDON — The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Moscow quotes the assistant station master at Miava, on the Russo-Prussian frontier, as follows: “We were on the platform when a Zeppelin appeared 500 feet above us. Our artillery opened fire, damaging three of its four motors, but it proceeded. The Zeppelin then hoisted a white .flag and the Russians ceased firing. The Zeppelin immediately hurled a bomb, many people being wounded. Three more bombs were thrown which killed twenty-three persons and wounded sixty. The airship then came to the ground. The crew of eight Was captured.” FORTY DIE IN TRAIN WRECK Frisco Flyer Falls Into River Near Lebanon, Mo. SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Fort/- prisons are reported to have been killed near Lebanon, Mo., when a Frisco passenger train went into the ditch. Five persons were crushed to death when the steel coaches left the track. The remainder of the victims were drowned. Four cars and the locomotive were overturned into a small stream, swollen to a temporay lake, w'hich runs beside the track. The chair car and the smoker were submerged. It is thought every persons on the two cars was drowned. According to meager Information reaching here the train plunged through a trestle ‘ approaching Brush Creek, a small stream four miles east of Lebanon. Heavy rains recently had caused the stream to rise, and it is believed this weakened the structure. Serbs Destroy Orsova. PARIS — A Petrograd dispatch to the Havas agency here reports that the Servians have bombarded and destroyed the Hungarian station of Orsova, on the Danube, a short distance above where the river quits Hungarian territory, thus cutting communication between Hungary and Roumania. Orsova w r as the route by which the German sailors reached Turkey. * 35 Quakes Shake Peru. LIMA, PERU — The earthquakes in the department of Arequipa continue. Thirty-five shocks, some violent, were recorded at Caraveli, which was destroyed last week. The tremors continue.

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INDIANA STATE NEWS Gary Has First Dry Sunday. GARY, IND. — Thirsty citizens of Gary are recovering from the first dry Sunday which has been inflicted on their town this year. Hundreds of unwary ones, who failed to heed signs displayed Saturday night of the coining drought, were forced to consult irrigation experts in other towns. “Buy Your Bottle Tonight. Dr> Sunday Tomorrow,” the sign read. Mayor R. O. Johnson, who has been in office since Jan. 1, was responsible foi the dry Sunday. Hurt Teaching Motor Riding. COLUMBUS, IND. — While Roy Lambert, a young man of Nortonburg, was trying to teach Don Norton to ride a motorcycle, which the latter had just purchased, he lost control of the machine and it plunged with Lambert into a barbed wire fence. Three deep gashes were cut in -Lambert’s throat, from which he almost bled to death before he could get to a surgeon in this city. Was Marriage a Failure Here? GOSHEN, IND. — Suing David C Colwell for divorce, Esmerald A. Colwell declares when they married in 1880 they were both poor. In thirty-four years they saved $15,000 in addition to rearing their sixteen children. Her husband, she says, has al* the property in his name and she seeks adequate alimony. Colwell is a Lagrange county farmer. Big Finlander Cleans Up Cops. ELWOOD, IND. — Two patrolmen were badly beaten and the assistance of bystanders had to be obtained when an effort was made to arrest Jack Mike, a Finlander of giant stature, who had been causing trouble in a saloon. After the man was finally beaten to the ground he refused to move, and four men had to carry him several blocks to jail. Ston e for Indiana Building. BEDFORD, IND. — Six car loads of stone, weighing more than 300 tons, to be used in the Indiana building at the Panama-Pacific exposition, left Bedford for San Francisco and will be handled by the railroads across the continent as a special shipment. The stone is the best selected oolitic stone that could be found. * Scheels to Open. MUNCIE, IND. — Night vocational schools for women are to be conducted here this winter in five of the principal city school buildings. Any woman more than eighteen years old may enroll and study sewing, millinery and household arts, classes beginning at 7 o’clock in the evening and continuing two hours. Out of Work Man Suicides. NEW ALBANY, IND. — George R Cunningham, fifty-six years old, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jennie Moore, here. Despondency on account of being out of employment is the cause assigned. Aged Night Watchman Killed. KENDALLVILLE, IND. — Samuel Hart, sixty years old, night watchman at the Wabash gravel pit a mile east of Wolcottville, was killed when a steam shovel overturned. Dan Owen, the engineer, suffered a fracture of the skull and probably will die. Wreck Victim Succumbs. EVANSVILLE, IND. — Henry Roeder, forty-six years old, of this city, motorman on the Princeton traction car that crashed into another car near Princeton last Thursday night, injuring sixteen persons, died of his injuries. Fall From Car Breaks Neck. TERRE HAUUTE, IND. — John Baxter, thirty years old, a coal miner, sustained a broken neck when he fell ficm a street car here. He died while he was being carried into the operating room at a hospital. Kilted Trying to Avoid Train. ELKHART, IND. — Goldie Kintz, who is twenty years old, daughter of Louis Kantz, was killed by a Lake Shore train when she stepped in its path to escape a train on a parallel track. Refuses Money for Hospital. LOGANSPORT. IND. — The county council refused to make the appropriation of SIOO,OOO sought by the Cass County Medical society for a county hospital. Man Stabbed May Die. HAMMOND, IND., — William Grayson may die as a result of knife wounds inflicted by Robert Jones. The assailant was found by a posse in a pit near Crown Point. Universalists to Meet. iMIDAN, IND. — Rogers Association of Universalists will be in session here Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Organizing Boy Scouts. HARTFORD CITY, IND. — The Rev. R. I. Stone is organizing a third troop of Boy Scouts here. Will Install Pipe Organ. RISING SUN, IND. — A pipe organ to cost $2,000 will be installed in the M. E. church here.

PASTOR AND WIFE ARE KILLED Auto in Which They Were Riding Turns Completely Over. EVANSVILLE, IND. —Mrs. Horace Weeks Jones, forty-five years of age, was instantly killed and her husband, the Rev. Horace Weeks Jones, fifty-four years old, pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, was injured fatally when a touring car driven by Edward N. Viele, fifty years old, a prominent insurance man, turned over on the lower Mt. Vernon road, twelve miles below this city. Mr. Viele has a broken arm and minor injuries. The Rev. Mr. Jones died before he could be taken to a hospital in this city. The accident occurred at a turn In the road which was not seen by the driver. In an endeavor to keep his machine in the road, Mr. Viele drove It into a ditch. The car turned completely over and alighted on its wheels. A son and daughter of the dead couple, who were in the machine, escaped without injury. The Rev. Mr. Jones came to this city from Demopolis, Ala., six months ago. SLAYER OF OWN FAMILY DIES William Lee, Perpetrator of Horrible Crime., Expires in Prison. BOONVILLE. IND—William Tx-e. who murdered his father, mother and brother in this city Aug. 28, 1911. died in his cell at the Michigan City prison, according to a telegram received by his uncle, Homer Sutton, from Warden Fogarty, asking what disposition to make of the body. Sutton stated that he would allow the prison officials to bury the body as unclaimed. Lee’s cold-blooded crime excited the citizens of the county when the family home in the northeast part of the city was discovered on fire. Neighbors turned out to fight the flames and discovered the most horrible murder on rec ord in the county. Lee, the young murderer, had been to see his sweetheart the night before and returning home evidently had quarreled with his father and mother and attacked them. A younger brother, it is believed, rushed to the rescue of his parents, only to be hacked to death with an ax. JILTED MINISTER IS SUICIDE Cory, Ind., Young Man Takes Polson In Terre Haute Hotel. TERRE HAUTE, IND.—The Rev. Frank L. Lee of Cory, Ind., committed suicide in his room in the Terre Haute House by swallowing poison. A letter written in rhyme and addressed to the minister’s father. J. J. Lee of Liberty, Ind., was found in the room. It offered no reason for the act. Mr. Lee was twenty-seven years old and a studept of DePauw university. Members of his congregation who reached the city late in the evening said he had been engaged to a young woman of Crawfordsville, but that recently she had broken with the minister. Since that time he is said to have worried and intimated that he had little further interest in life. MELON PATCH RAIDERS SHOT Refused to Stop When Owner Called to Them to Halt. KOKOMO, IND. — John M. Cranor, eighteen years old, and Paul Golding, nineteen, were shot while they were raiding the melon /fitch of Richard Mc/Killip, living near Sycamore, east of this city. ____ The boys, who live near Greentown were discovered in the patch by Mr Killip and when they refused to stot at his command McKillip fired both barrels of a shot gun. Cranor received several shot in the back, while Golding also was peppered, although not as seriously as Cranor. Both are confined to their homes. No action has been taken by the authorities. TRAIN HITS AUTO; SIX DEAD —» ? Man, Three Women and Two Children Perish When Car Stalls. SCOTTSBURG, IND. — Four persons were killed and two suffered fatal injuries, dying a short time later, when a Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile at Austin near here. The dead: Ellsworth Belch, Dayton, Ky.; Mrs. Ellsworth . Belch. Amelia Belch, twenty, daughter of Ellsworth Belch; Mrs. Mary Belch, sixty. Austin, Ind.; Beulah Robbins, fourteen. Austin, Ind.; Leona Trulook, twelve, Austin, Ind. Belch was driving the car. which stalled on the crossing at Austin. The engineer saw the car too late to stop his train. WEDDING SECRET POPS OUT Romantic Undertaker Yields to the Charms of Hotel Proprietress. KOKOMO, IND. — Emile F. Maritin, an undertaken of this city, and Mrs. Mary Wansbrough, proprietor of the Franklin hotel here, were married in Bloomington, Ind. They intended keeping the marriage a secret fcr at least a month, but friends discovered the truth. Martin was captain of Company I, Indiana National guard, stationed here for several years. Last spring, acting under a commission from Brigadier General McCoy, he organized a volunteer company here for service in Mexico.

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RECRUITING IN LONDON ' - i The Offices Are Crowded ' With Men Eager to Enlist. 1 AaSßjflS* ZI Photo by American Press Association. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR. Wednesday, Sept. 9.—The fall of Maubeuge, a strong French fortress s.’x miles from the Belgian frontier, is announced at the German army headquarters. Forty thousand prisoners, including four generals, and 400 guns were taken, it is said. A dispatch from Paris indicates a belief that the German offensive against the city has been definitely checked. Austria is reported as bankrupt and its people in panic. Bosnia is reported in open revolt. The situation Is due to the failure of the Austrian arms against Russia. Thursday, Sept. 10.—The Russians are said to be driving the Germans before them on the west bank of the Vistula. Servians have crossed the River Save and are invading Hungary. Vienna admits that Archduke Frederick lost 120,000 men in the recent fighting in Galicia. The Germans near Paris are re-en-forcing their center, which is bearing the brunt of the allies onslaught, and are making desperate efforts to regain lost ground. Friday, Sept. 11.—The Germans held their own in two days’ fighting east of Paris, capturing fifty guns and several thousand prisoners, but retired the flank upon the advance of strong hostile forces. It is announced in Paris that the Germans have retired in some places forty or fifty miles. The French are reported to have recaptured Muelhausen. The Russians are bombarding Koenigsberg. German re-enforcements are reported moving toward Koenigsberg. Nish reports that Servian forces have occupied Semlin, a town in Aus-tria-Hungary. Saturday, Sept. 12.—The French war office announces that the Germans in France are retreating generally and offering only a feeble resistance. A British official announcement says British troops have crossed the River Ourcq and are pursuing the German right wing, whose retreat is rapid. The latest official German report said that the kaiser’s forces had captured a fortress southwest of Verdun. Fresh and stubborn fighting in that Austrian province is reported, and this had given rise to the theory that the German corps brought from the west may hav e been thrown into Austria to support the Austrians instead of proceeding to East Prussia to reenforce the Germans already there. A news dispatch from Petrograd says that the Servians are continuing successfully their offensive operations against Austria. Sunday, Sept. 13.—The allied armies are advancing along the whole front v ith contact maintained with the enemy. The left wing crossed the Aisne river. The Belgian army drove the Germans from Louvain and have resumed a strong offensive before Antwerp. Passengers from Flushing bring the rumor that the Anglo-Belgian army has re-occupied Brussels, the Germans having previously evacuated the city. A Petrograd dispatch says that two Austrian armies have been surrounded end 60,000 prisoners taken, including 500 officers of one army and 600 of the other. The Germans in East Prussia have been defeated with heavy losses near Muichent, but are still bringing up reenforcements, says a dispatch from Petrograd. Servian troops are advancing rapidly through Austria to form a junction with Russians. The Russians have won a great victory in the capture of Tomaszow in South Poland. The Czar’s men are reported to have taken 30,000 prisoners. .

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BERLIN CLAIMS CREATJCLORY Germans Root Army if Czar, Wires Hinderber j. SENOS MESSAGE T 9 KAISER Russian Forces of Vilna Sa d to Have Been Destroyed—Another Victory at Lyck—Russians, Howevc -, Report Advance —“Take Berlin at Any Cost,” Orders Czar. Berlin (by wireless to S tyville, L. I ), Sept. 16: —General Hind-rberg has telegraphed the emperor th t the Vilna army of the second, th ’d, fourth aud twentieth army corps, t o reserve divisions and five cavalry divisions have completely defeated the Russians with heavy casualties. The number of prisoners is increa ing. The destruction of the army con inues aud the spoils of war are enorn. jus. The Russian army defeat- d at Lyck comprised in addition to ths Twentysecond corps a remnant of the Sixth corps and parts of the Thir 1 Siberian corps. Headquarters ann* unces at midnight that the h ivy f ghting in France is yet indecisive. The French assault has been repulsed. “Take Berlin at Any Cost.” Petrograd. Sept. 16. —That the proposed invasion of Hung- ry by a strong Russian body has be n definitely abandoned was intin. ited here. It is realized by the Russ? n general staff that the German resis ance"will be very strong and it has been definitely decided that the entt.e Russian field army, first and second ! ne troops, will be*retained for the capture of Berlin. The czar Is determined that Berlin shall be taken, if it costs ti e Russian empire its entire fighting strength. Discussing the general s’"nation today, Minister of War Sukhcmlinoff declared: “The Russian army is going to capture Berlin. That is the task assigned to it by the allies k the present war. The entire stren th of tt.e Russians will be used to th> s purpose. Austrians Out of' Wny. '** *-■ “We have been compelled to remov? the Austrians as a source f danger, but we have not planned ?' y genera! invasion of Hungary or ar ’ attempt to take either Budapest or Vienna. “The Austrian army is er ished. Its losses in killed, wounded r id prisoners exceed 250,000. They have lost a great part of their artil’rry. probably 1,000 guns. The posi' m of the remnants of their army is irecarioas and its surrender would I r no surprise. On the other hand tl J spirit of the Russian troops was ne - er bet’er and they are ready to pres ? forward v.Ythout further delay. “Russia is administering the captiiied territory but it will n> t forcibly annex any of Austria’s territory. Questions of that sort mu t be left until the war is over.” Russians Have Foe Herrried In. London? Sept. 16.—-A disp: tch to the Exchange Telegraph comi any from Petrograd says that after tl e capture of Opole and Tourobine Rus' ian forces hc.ve hemmechthe enemy Iht > an angle formed by the junction of the River Vistula and the River San. POSITION OF SUITAN BRINGSJLS.PR3TEST Turkey, However, Does Not Intend to Recede. Constantinople, via Rome. Sept. 16. —lt is reported here that tl at United States has presented a protest, couched in the most'vigorous terms, against the abolition by th J Turkish government of the privi!e.:e of the capitulations for foreign su jjects. It is plain, however, that Tu -key does not intend to recede n s ngle iota from-her announced position She has taken advantage of t’ r pr sent general European war to declare her independence on all foreign pressure, and believes that she will be permitted to get away with it. The government has prer red a law establishing as a national holiday the anniversary of the promu'gatlon of the decree. It is also staled that a decree is to issue which will transform all foreign schools within he limits of Turkey into Turkish institutions. This Is to become effective Oct. 1. At that time, too. the nev. scale of Turkish duties, will go into effect. It is announced that the following articles will be subject to teavy duties: Coffee, sugar, kerosen s, alcohol, matches, cigarette papers and playing cards. Frank Chance Quits the Yanks. New York, Sept. 16. —Fra: k Chance has resigned the management of the New York Highlanders. President Farrell decided to give Chance a month’s salary and cancel the contract for next year. 4

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