Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 23, 1915, Page 4

ks . Great Britein and in NORWICH BULLETIN, FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1915 d orwich ulletin nud Goufied 119 YEARS OLD Bubscription price 12c & weeks f9o & ‘mionth; $0.00 a year. ! Entered at the Postcffice at Norwioh. Conn.. as second-class matter. Telepnone Calln: ‘Bulletin Business Office 480, Bulletin Editorial Rooms 35-3. Bulletin Job Office 354 Willimantle Office, Room 3 Murmay Bollding. Telephone 210. Norwich, Friday, April 23, 19%5. The Circulation of The Builetin The Bulletin has the largest circulation of any paper in East- ern Connecticut and from three to four times larger than that of any in Norwich. It is delivered to over 8,000 of the 4,053 houses in Norwich, and read by nminety- three per cent. of the people. In Windham it is deiivered to over 900 hcouses, in Putnam and Danielson to over 1,100 and all of these plac s consid- ered the local daily. Eastern Connecticut has forty- nine towns, one hundred and sixty-five postoffice districts, and sixtv rural free delivery routes. The Bulletin is sold in every town * on all of the R. F. D. routes Eastern Connecticut. CIRCULATION core 4412 erer 5,920 9,167 PROTECT THE HILLTOPS. It must be admitted by all who are \cquainted with the existing condi- tions that the property in the hill sec- tions of Norwich is sadly in need of Detter fire protection. Houses on Lamb’s and Jail hills have been com- Dletely destroyed because of the fail- ure of the existing gravity water sys- tem to furnish sufficient pressure to enable the firemen to do efficient work, It is a condition to be encountered &t almost any time and with full res- ervoirs even the water pressure can- Zot be considered satisfactory for fire Highting purposes. How to remedy this has been thought over for a long time and it can be remiily appreciated that the statement of Fire Chief Stanton is a most sensible one when he declares motor driven fire pump would Be the cheapest and most advisable acquisition Norwich could make for solution of this problem. Nor- k has had a valuable object lesson dn connection with motor fire appara- Mus. It is the only aepparatus with swhich a city with the topography of Norwich should be equipped. It is e most economical and most effi- t. It permits of speed without ver-driving horses and it i5 as close- ry in touch with the hilly regions as Mith the rest. ‘With an auto pumping engine one ©of the big handicaps in the way of jpresent fire protection would be ef- tively and cheaply removed, There it to be no question over the ne- ty of providing such apparatus. would only be providing such pro- jtection as the residents of the hill mections are paying for and which hey_are entitled to, though the ser- Wices of such an engine would by no Wmeans be restricted to eny one Sec- Rion, 1901, average .... 1905, average .. April 17 ... AMERICA'S NEUTRALITY. | In his addresses before two im- iportant gatherings during the week {President Wilson has taken occasion 1o set forth the importance of neu- ftrality and the reasons for this coun- #ry taking the position thereon that 4t has. In those declarations he has spoken with frankness, not only to the people of this country, but to ‘those of all others. He has set forth ‘the distinction with care and delib- ‘eration at a time when it cannot fail %o make a deep impression and in the stand which he has taken he has the country at his back. The president makes it plain that there is “goodwill at the bottom™ of our neutrality, goodwill to each and every country involved in the war and sympathy for mankind. The dif- ficulty of maintaining neutrality can- mot be appreciated until it s expe- rienced. Even though it Is impossible for the people of a nation made up as 1his one is to have no feeling or opir- jon goncerning the struggle between ‘other countries, it is not for us, as the president says, “to sit in judgment upon another nation, but America, free from hampering ambitions as a world ~ power, free from a lust for territory, calm, cool and without self interest, must be appealed to to assist in the reconstruction processes of peace.’ It is & duty which we owe to our- sclves as Americans to remain neutral and likewise as a duty to our friends though we sincerely regret the terrible conditions which surround our friends, the nations of Europe. By keeping our hands clean and free we ere golng to be able when the time comes to render a great and lasting service, through the help we can render to all. {2 CHINA AND JAPAN. In various ways the republic of | Ching bas met with many difficulties sinco it was lounched. Though most bf them have been internal, that which Is now forced by Japan breaks the monotonoy and creates added interest among the other nations of the world, which are friends of both countries, Japan must fuily realize from the ttitude exprossed in the mote from r the position ‘which has been taken by this coun- jry that no plan which conmtemplates ing & protectorate of China will acceptable. The integrity of China ust be maintained. 85 must thie policy of the open door which equal trade opportunities for I nations. It it is Japan's intention to stretch it & helping hand to Chiga, Whereby. it will not seek to control that re- public but protect it against forelgn invasion and be ready mt all times to lend its influence to better condi- tions, the same as this country has done to the repupfics of this con- tinent under ths Monroe Doctrine, there can be ifttle opposition. Such would indicca® a new policy for the east, but cae which would be for the interests 4f all concerned and not for aay doraination of that section or the exclugion of trade. It {s the purposs of this country to see, China progress and not to have 1, crushed. Such is also to be gained m Sir Edward Grey's note as the position of Great Britain and such should have thelr good effects in reaching an early and amicable un- Qerstanding between Japan and China. BLESSING TO HUMANITY. Nothing more than 'the report that comes from Pittsburgh points more plainly to the good work the federal dsug law is dolng, when it is declared thint the number of patients in the hospitals for treatment because of drug habits has increased fivefold. The experience of Pittsburgh is also the experience of other large centers. The operation of the law has forced tho users of dangerous narcotics to seelc treatment and a cure and it hasn’t come any too soon to bring about the long needed results: ‘Without the law restricting the sale and requiring the keeping of tabs on the output the sales would have gone along just as they havo for years. Those who had become dependent upon the use of drugs would have continued and others would have been initiated into the harmful practice. ‘While the law may not have abso- lutely checked illegal traffic in the demoralizing trade, it has unques- tionably made excellent progress in the short time it has been in opera- tion. It is doing just what was ex- pected of it and what has been great- iy needed for a long time. The pros- pects are that it will continue and while there is bound to be some addi- tional suffering untll those who be- lieved they could not get along with- out it are cured it is going to prove in the end one of the greatest bless- ings that has beem secured through national legislation in a long time. Its good effects are bound to reach far beyond the present. Tt is a step that should have been taken long ago. FAKE MEDICAL MUSEUMS. By the arrest of the proprietors and the closing of a score or more free medical museums the police of New York have struck at a swindle which should have been suppressed long ago, The purpose of these places was to get rich quick by frightening people into giving away their money as the price of recovering from some dread disease from which s a matter of fact they were not suffering and of which they had no symptoms, ex- cept such as were created in their imagination by the statements of the fakirs. By going about it in s cdrefully studied manner it is possible to im- pose upon a large number of patients through fake physicians and false methods of diagnosis as is shown by the declaration that the most im- portant of the prisoners is sald to have had 14000 clients and that it requires but a short time to amass large sums from the gullible can be readily understood, especially when a chain of such offices is maintained throughout large cities and the scheme S0 concocted as to catch the poor and the foreigners. There is enough 1Il heaith for which expense is incurred without making the ignorant believe they are sick or threatened with a dangerous condition which they are willing to spend their Tast cent to escape. It is a case ‘where such people need every protec- tion that can be glven them and in the ralding and closing of such places New York is rendering a much needed service and setting an example which should be followed in many other of the large citles. The quacks should Pa made to pay the full penalty of the aw. EDITORIAL NOTES. Italy appears to have adopted the policy of watchful waiting also. It there is any prospect of peace what is going to become of that large supply of iron crosses? It is about time for Mexico to adopt laws forbidding any further revolu- tlons, or revolutionary parties. Inventory in Wall Street would show much different results today than it would have six months ago. Quite a few of the neutral nations of Europe appear to be willing to en- ter a game of stump but they lack a leader. ‘That medical authority who encour- ages walking as an aid to long life cannot be looked upon as.a promoter of the jitney, The man on the cornmer says: The other fellow's troubles are never en- tertaining to the fellow who has trou- bles of his own, The danger that goes with canoeing is again being disclosed, but there are just as many as ever Who de- mand the experience. It is a little too early perhaps to put Villa on the shelf, but even he ¢annot look upon his present pos tion as entirely satisfactory. The one bitter thought In conpection with these delightful spring days is that each one brings us that much mearer to the dog day period. Temmany Hall ia going to be moved uptown in New ‘York., The Colonel will have a chance for a big game hunt right et home If the tiger should get loose, R e — When it is dectared by the Turkish ‘war minister that Turkey expected to be led to the block, the teking up of arms appears to have been a case of contemplated self destruction, If .the statement that ‘“po $3,000 bond for fitneys could be secured” means that no bonding company is willing to accept such a risk, can it be looked upon by the general .as- sembly as s risk fo permit without a bond? New Lendon county has grown to ‘appreciate the services whieh Murray D. Lincoln has been rendering as the agent of the county improvement league, It dislikes to part with him, but from his work here it knows that he will make good on “his new job. He has set & high standard for his successor, BULLETIN'S SPECIAL YALE LETTER Three New Professors Chosen at Corporation Meeting—Cal- houn Memorial Scholarships—What Class of 1915 Has Spent in Its Four Years—Annual Spring Gala Day May Tenth. New Haven, April 22.—The regular April meeting of the Yale corpora- tion was held last Monday afternoon in the administration bullding. The meeting was attended by Governor Holcomb and fifteen of the sixteen regular Fellows of the university. The most important action of the corpora- tion was in electing three new pro- fessors, one in the Medical school, one in'the Scientific school, and one in the Graduate school. They are: Charles E, A. Winslow, professor of public health: Louis D. Weld, pro- fessor of business administration, and Arnold L. Gosell, professor of educa- tion. The selection of Dr. Winslow is significant in that the Yale Med- ical school will be In a position to cooperate more actively with the health authorities of Connecticut in improving nublic health conditions. It was_a condition of the Lauder fund, established last June, that a depart- ment of public health should be cre- ated. Dr. Winslow is at present head of the division of publicity and edu- cation of the New York state depart- ment of public health. Announce- ment was made that Charles P. How land, New York city, Dr. John How- land, Baltimore, and Miss Frances Howland, New York city, have for- mally agreed to give the university the sum of $15,000, the income from which is to be devoted to a prize to be awarded to the citizen of any coun- try in recognition of some achievement of marked distinction in the field of literature or fine arts or the sclence of government. The prize is to be awarded at the discretion of the cor- poration, but not in any event oftener than once in two vears, and is to_con- sist of the income of the fund in- cluding an appropriate medal. It is expected that the recipient will lec- ture at the university at the time of the awasd of the medal. The purpose of the fund is to bring distinction to the university, advance at Yale in- terest in literature, government and art, and memorialize the late Judge Howland. The Yale graduate swho deplores what he considers syfiptoms of the decline of Yale democracy since he graduated, may be encouraged to note how the college has progressed in that direction since its foundation. In his new book, recently published, entitled Undercurrents in. American ~Politics, President Hadley recalls how undemo- cratic was the Yale college of pre- Revolutionary days. He says: Con- necticut_was in some respects the most_independent and democratic_of all the New England colonies. Yet even in Connecticut class distinctions were so strong that down to the very eve of the Revolution the names of the students in the catalogue of Yale college were arranged, not in alpha- betical rank, but in order of the re- spectability of their parentage. It was definitely decided Monday evening by the officers of the Yale Southern club, in consultation with Dean Jones, to establish at Yale the John C. Calhoun Memorial scholar- ships, which will be awarded annually at commencement from the income of a fund of $15000 to those two south- ern members of the freshman class, one of the Sheffield Scientific school and one from the college, who have shown general excellence in scholar- ship and athletics. The memorial will be founded and supported jointly by the Southern club at Yalé and the Yale Southern Alumni association. A campaign committee has been orgar ized for the collection of the neces- sary funds, the members of which in- clude the dean, two southern under- graduates, two southern Yale grad- uates and E. E. Emmbree, secretary of the southern confederation of Yale clubs. The committee expects to tart the campaign at once, with a View to completing the collection of funds by the end of the summer. It is the opinion of those interested that there has long been a need of something to commemorate the fact that Calhoun spent his college days here and in 1804 became a Yale graduate. There are few more distinguished names on Yale's roll of honor, and it is to be hoped that the scholarships will be- come monuments worthy of his mem- ory. That it cost $1,079,111 to ‘give the class of 1915 a college education is among other miscellaneous facts com- piled from the semior statistical blanks which were made known this week. Many other interesting facts are to be learned concerning the seniors’ ex- penses and religious beliefs. Forty-six per cent. of the class have spent their summers working, while ten per cent. have traveled summers. There are 29 more men of the Episcopal faith than any other denomination. The oldest man is 29 and the yoyngest is 19, the average being 22 'years, 2 months. More than twice as many men voted the republican ticket than did the democratic ticket, two men ‘being prohibitionists and” the same number soclalists. The percentage of men voting was smaller this year than any previous class. There are five seniors who have never been out of Connecticut. The largest number of states visited By one man is 45. There are 125 of the class who have been abroed at least once. abroad twelve times. One hundred and seventy-nine have taken part in | athletics, and 122 have played on uni- versity, college, or class teams. There are 16 seniors who have won their “Y”." The voting on daily and Sun- day chapel was very close. Daily chapel was favored by a majority of 14, while 44 more men oppose Sun- day chapel than are in favor of it. The greatest amount spent in one year by a single man was $4,500, this sum being expended during freshman year. The lowest amount necessary for freshman year was $200, The total expenditures by the class during its four year course aggregated over million dollars, \ Director Chittenden an.iounced last week that at a recent meeting of the governing board of the Shefeld Scientific school, it was decided to adopt the recommendation made by the senior council of the school, that the Vanderbilt Seclentific dormitories and other dormitories on the Vander- bile square, commencing with the year 1916-1917, be given up exclusively for the use of the members of the frdsh- man class of the Sheffield Scientific school. The two Vanderbilt dormi- tories, the dormitory floor of Byers' hall, ‘and the other houses on the square will, it is thought, accommo- date at least the larger number of the members of the freshman class. This action will result in bringing all of the Sheff. freshmen together, and should prove beneficial in many ways. This coming year, however, 1915-1916, the dormitories will be occupied main- 1y by upper classmen, as heretofore, although some rooms will be allotted to freshmen. This change will tend to unite the class and raise the morals of the class, a thing which cannot be accomplished under the present sys- tem. When the first Vanderbilt dor- mitory was bullt it was thought that the seniors should be given the privi- lege of enjoying it. When the sec- ond dormitory was built it was pos- sible to house practically all of the juniors and seniors within the square, Now it is deemed advisable to change. After next vear the juniors and se- niors will room outside as the fresh- men do at present. It is hoped that in the future dormitories will be built which will enable all men who do not room in the society houses to find quarters on the Sheff. campus, This decisive action has taken as a sequel to that taken by the college au- thorities at the first of the year when it was announced that in the fall of 1916 the academic juniors would be forced to find rooms off of the campus. Omega Lambda Chi spring gala dav, will be celebrated on Monday, May 10, The seniors will hold a class party on the same eve- ning and it is believed that the com- bination will result in a most novel day of enjoyment. The program which has been placed in the hands of the committee who have the fete in charge has been withheld until a fu- ture date when further arrangements will have been completed. Omega Lambda Chi, which has become one of Yale's tradition, is usually char- acterized by a parade composed of floats representing the different or- ganizations and extra curriculum ac- tivities. Games and contests of a most original character have also be- come significant of this day of frolic. A band consisting of undergraduates will take the place of the usual pro- fessional organization hired for the celebration. The members of the band will_be in costumes to be designed for the occasion. The idea of a stu- dent band has been conceived often, but never successfully accomplished. The seventeen members at present is sufficient evidence that the project will not prove a failure. Yale's annual Stories of Conditions in Berlin. An American banker who has just returned from Berlin, talked with a party of English newspapermen on his arrival in London. He gave them & rather different idea of the state of af- rairs in Berlin than thit conveyed by most of the English newspaper com- ment., He sald: “You English should not be deceived by newspaper - statements reaching you from various Continental points to the effect that Germany is on the brink of starvation. 1 have just closed my house in the fashionable residential part of Berlin. My house- hold budget was not more than twen- ty-five per cent. higher on March 10 than it was a year ago. Various sta- ple articles of food cost more—as they do in London—but hardly one is be- yond the reach of the ordinary mid- dle-class householder, or even of the humbler classes. Hverybody must bave a bread ticket, and there is no shortage of breed. My family of four and two servants never used the whole of our tickets for the week. The po- tato-flour bread is only slightly leas palatable than the old-time wheaten- Toaf. “At present no German is capable of dreaming of the possibility of defeat. “I find also a vast amount of fool- igh misapprehension in England about industrial comditions in Germany. Trade does not seem to me to have been materially dislocated. ‘The shops appear to have thelr regular flow of customers, The coffes ~houses, the restaurants, the theatres, the concert halls, the picture palaces, and other establishments dependent on _publie patronage seem to be doing as well as eight months ago. The coffes houses which have cabarets ere always cram- me: “Is it generally understood here that Germany is at the moment short of artisan labor? Unemployment is almost non-existent. Wages are high. A skilled man who used to get only $1 or $1.25 a day can now earn $2.50 or $3. Everything connected with ~ the output of munitions is working at ut- most capacity day and night, Sundays and holidays, without cessation. New factories have sprung up like mush- rooms to produce goods heretofore im-~ ported into Germany. “A German friend of mine who used the War to make furniture and found his bus- iness temporarily shelved by the war is now making shrapnel employing women and girls in place of the men who have gone to the front. “It is also wrong to conclude, as I sometimes read in the English news- papers, that Germany is so near the dregs of her resources that boys of fifteen are being dragooned into the army. Nothing of the sort. A Ger- man lad of my acquaintance, a fine athletic fellow of eighteen, has not been summoned, although he is ready ‘to volunteer. They do not need him. “In short, to the casual observer, there 18 no outward sign that Germany is on the verge of a famine in either men, provisions, munitions or money. The plentifulness of money is almost the only ‘bluff that Germany is put- ting up. The money so ‘plentifully’ in circulation is paper currency of value as low as 25 cents. flowing from the Imperial treasury like water. “The Germans in my judgment, thanks to farsighted precautionary measures and natural frugality, can never be starved into surrender. They can be inconvenienced—they are now —but that is & different thing.” Handled Over 1000 Cases. The American Women's War Hospi- tal at Paignton, Bouth Devon, England, reports that during its first six months work it has handled 1060 cases, of ‘which the total number of those who died was only 3, or only 0.3 per cent. In detail the report adds the number of gunshot wounded treated was 226, shrapnel and shell wounds 208, fracture:.llh !rg:t:;tu 153. The thigh was tl e body most frequently |x.\)m?:g.‘ There were only three bayonet wounded among the more than a thousand cases, The surgeon-in-chief at the hospital js Dr. Howard 'W. Beal of Worcester, Mass., while the staff also includes: Dr. Robert 'W. Hinds of Buffalo, N, Y, Dr. W. G. Crumley of Rochester, Min; Dr. W. T. Fitzsimmons and Dr, Fr W. Eastman of Kansas City; Dr, E. L. Gilcrest of Gafnesville, Texas, and Dr. J. B. Stowers of Millersburg, Mo. Captured at Przemysl. The removal of prisoners from Przemysl has now been completed, and the official Russian statement of Three have been | al Good Ice Cream For the Home BRICKS of Good ICE CREAM packed in the original package, affords you real protection, and all 51 [ delicious flavor and natural smoothness is retained in every slice when served on your table. ““But Tait Bros Tfie fre Goarn Suprome VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AT OUR PLANT ighted 1915, The insist upon” the numbers is as follows: Nine Gen- érals, 2,307 officers; 113,890 men; 6,800 sick ‘and wounded. The number of sick and wounded Includes only those who were regard- ed as unfit to be removed. They are distributed among the various hospi- tals of Przemysl in charge of Russian phyicians, aided by 129 Austrian doc- tors and 100 hospital orderlies who were captured when the fortress fell. The captured stores and munitions have not_yet been completely inven- torized. Much of the booty in the fortress was concealed or buried and is only gradually coming to light. The quntity, however, is said to be enormous. Over ‘nine hundred guns, many of them still in good condition, have been inventoried. Thousands of Austrian bayonets, which are highly prized by the - Russian soldiers as knives, have been distributed among. the victorioug troops. The River San is being dredged for quantities of arms and ammunition which were thrown into it before the city capitulated. Hundreds of eol- diers spend their idle hours fishing for this booty with hook and line or with a small grappling hook dragged through the water from a row boat. OTHER VIEW POINTS . New England savings banks co tinue to show increased deposits, not- withstanding we have passed through what has been war times. Of course the foreign war had its effects on busi- ness and will continue to have, but one thing is certain and that is that the people are becoming prudent as never before, realizing that savings account is the most substantial asset to possess.—Middletown Press. The bald man has little enough hope—Goodness knows!—to cheer him. And now there is spreading among the health officers of cities an epidemic of raiding barbers shops, confiscating the hair restorers, having them analysed and officially declared a de- lusion and a snare. The cruelty of it is that, although a man’s hair was all gone, he still had hope, but now even that is taken away from him. The bald man henceforth even in his dreams, must stay bald, forever bald.— Hartford Post. Hartford has been tinkering with its charter, presumably with a view to improve it and enabling the vari- ous officials to perform their work more efficiently, but the document is still very lame wheh it does mot pro- vide that the mayor can make his appointments unhampered by ratifica- tion. The responsibility for good gov- ernment so far as it relates to the work of appointees rests upon —him and he should be permitted to select his cabinet _without interference.— New Britain Herald, A word or expression that is frown- ed upon today may very possibly be considered perfectly good English to- morrow, unless history should sudden- 1y cease to repeat itself. ~_But there is a nice point beyond which the elas- ticity of a word cannot be stretched. It is perhaps safe to predict that when a word is made to assume such vers- atility of power a8 is now heaped up- on the little word “some”, it can never maintain its superiority for long. That would be asking too much of verbal resiliency.—Bridgeport Standard. The Sons of Veterans have a re- sponsible mission, a work in which there should be much love and affec- tion, not only for those who have gone before but for the great country their fathers served with peculiar de- votion, enriching many battlefields with their life blood and raising aloft the flag for a forever united country. So we say may the deliberations of this encampment be wisely conducted so that the successors of the veterans may become great in counsel, strong in numbers and able to discharge to the full duty which is so soon to be lald upon them.—New Britain Her- ald. According to Irving Fisher, profes- sor of Economics at Yale, wages are not the cause of the cost of living, as popularly supposed, but are one of the effects of cost—changes 1in the scale of wages follow, rather than pre- cede changes in the scale of the cost of lving. One of the commonest fal- lacies in this respect is the belief that prices are high today because wages and salaries have been raised in S0 many lines of work. The exact op- posite is the truth, according to Pro- fessor Fisher, who demonstrates that it is a historical fact that prices have gone up first, and that wages have risen aftegward—when the pinch of higher prices made a higher wage scale imperative—Bridgeport Tele- gram. It is with considerable regret that we see the appropriation committee follow the bad example of the judiciary committee and recommend an extrava- gant sum to be set aside for the re- vision of the statutes by a commis- sion of six able-bodied and high priced lawyers. If the plans outlined go through there will be places on_this leisurely board for a half a dozen members of the bar. They wAl draw from the state $5,000 per year and they will 50 manage that the task of re- vision will not be rushed through in less than three years. So we have a yearly cost to the state of $35.000 to 342,000 for the commission, its clerk and the revision. We do not doubt that the taxpayers of the etate will receive a satisfactory revision of the statutes, when the work is over. What we do claim and what we insist is plain as the biggest of blg type is that the necessary work of Tevision coud be done at a third of the cost of the proposed commission and done just as well. Two men or three men Ccould codify our laws and index them Colonial Theatre “A Gentleman from Mississippi” FEATURING MR. TOM WISE H A Delightful Drama, With Charming Southern Characters, Mag cent Colonial Homes, Cotton Fields, St mboats_and the Entire Original Story Complete, Being a Story of Washington Life as it Appears to the New Senator. 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Its coastline is well-indented, but the ehores in much of their extent are steep and forbid- ding, Mountainous rock masses Cross the iand from north to south, culmin- ating jn Monte Maggiore, about 4,600 feet high. Olives and figs are cultivated in the region, and Istria’s grapes and wine are famous. There is little garden, though considerable rich pasture land, and the forests of the peninsula sup- ply the material for a large native ship-building industry. Its fisheries are very valuable, and it has a small mineral yield, coal, alum and °salt. There is little or no local manufac- turing, except the bullding of ships. It ie as a shipping point, as a land of ports and strategic commercial and of its harbors amounts to more tha 7,000,000 tons annually. Pola, at t apex, the chief naval base of the Du: Monarchy, is one of the most impo! tant sea-power stations in souther Furope. 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