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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Charlotte_Widmann-Wimmer|1232" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="896" ns="0" title="Bernhard Jaeggi" />
      <page pageid="938" ns="0" title="Konrad Karl Friedrich von Andlau" />
      <page pageid="1619" ns="0" title="Ferdi Afflerbach" />
      <page pageid="1936" ns="0" title="Paul Degen" />
      <page pageid="2049" ns="0" title="Jakob Meyer (1889 - 1962)" />
      <page pageid="2077" ns="0" title="Carl Ronus" />
      <page pageid="2149" ns="0" title="Charles Albert Ronus" />
      <page pageid="2184" ns="0" title="Eduard Handschin" />
      <page pageid="2389" ns="12" title="Hilfe:Erste Schritte" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>