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拜主
中華民國庚午年拾二月初五
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1931.
BEGINNING OF THE BIG HULKING BRUTE SHOOTING OF NURSE
YEAR.
Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory.
CONSIDERED AS A CIRCLE,
New York, Dec. 30.
The majority of the world will to-morrow celebrate the beginning.
MR. GRIMMITT'S DESCRIPTION
OF A SMUGGLER.
"A big hulking brute like de- fendant should not go in for smuggling, he should find work to lo" remarked Revenue Offcer A. W. Grimmitt at the Central Second Court this morning, when
CAVELL.
Vain Efforts to Stop Tragedy.
AMBASSADOR'S DIARY.
Brussels, Nov. 21.
be charged a Chinese man, before Fresh light is thrown to-day on r. E. H. Williams with not hav-the Nurse Cavell tragedy by the ing paid duty on à quantity of of another year but few people
tobacco,
publication for the first time of an know why this begins on January 1.
Giving the facts, Mr. Grimmitt extract from the diary of the Mar- There a really no reason for starting each new year on the day and that the defendant was arquis de Villalobar, who, as Spanish rested in Connaught Road West called January 1, excopt that
at about 7 o'clock this mornnig. Julius Caesar so decreed it when He had four packets of tobacco War, played a prominent part in
reformed the calendar 1,976 shoe box, which had a lid on. connection with the great drama. years ago. But the day of the
Four other packets were year that Caesar called January
he
I is not the day that is so de-concealed in his girdle.
day
found
Defendant: I was carrying it for a friend.
His Worship imposed a fine of $25 with the alternative of three
weeks hard labour..
signated. Instead it is the now called December 28.
Because Caesar assumed the year to be 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than it really is, the dates "crawled" through the censed the beginning of the year on the turies away from the position that 31st of December, but Casar, by the he gave them, until by 1582 they adoption of the Julian calendar. were 14 days out of place. January
ber
Ambassador in Brussels during the
The Marquis de Villalobar relates how Mr. Hugh Gibson, then First Secretary to the American Lega- ion in Brussels, called on him on the night before the execution in a state of great distress, and how they went together to see Baron der Lancken, the German |Director of Political Affairs.
Baron von der Lancken told the
Von
1 had advanced almost to the middle postponed it to the 1st-of-January: Marquis that he had spoken to the their civil year from the first day but that General von Sauberzweig The Jews have always reckoned Acting Governor about the matter, of the month of Tishri (Septem-was resolved to put Miss Cavell to
October 5) but their
death and that nothing would turn ecclesiastical year begins at the
him from this course. The Marquis, equinox (March Pring
21) had a long conversation along with 26th of March
the Baron, and declared that he usual date among most Chris-
was convinced that if the English- tian peoples
Medinoval in
woman was executed all Great ¡Cays. In Anglo-Saxon England,
Britain, and, Indeed, the whole however, the 25th of December was British Empire, would rise to
of the January marked out by Caesar. In attempting to correct this discrepancy. Pope Gregory turned the calendar back, not to its position in Caesar's day, but to its position at the time of the Church Council of Nicaea in $25 A.D. when the calendar had already crawled forward four days. Had Pope Gre gory made a complete correction. January 1 would have fallen on "the day now called December 28.
But after all, the fact that Jan- uary 1 is still four days away from
The
Was
B
New Year Day. At the Norman
the coincidence of his coronation Conquest, owing, it is believed, to man against Germany.
"He Wants To Kill Her." being arranged for that date, Wil-
Baron von der Lancken said
the position fixed by the fat of a fiam the Conqueror, ordered that that he realised all this, but that Roman emperor is of no great signi- the year should start on the 1st of General von Sauberzweig was not faanco. The really important mat- ter is that the date shall not drift January. But later England began to be moved-"He wants to kill
her year with the rest of Christen-her." away from its moorings and take dom on the 25th of March. The At last the Marquis persuaded ap new positions with reference to Gregorian calendar (1882) which the Baron to have one more inter- the seasons; and its stability within restored the 1st of January to its view with the implacable General. a very tiny range was properly as position, as New Year's Day was In twenty minutes he returned, and sured by the corrections which Pope accepted by all Catholic countries told the Marquis that it was hope- at once, Germany, Denmark, and lesa. He was very much moved, Sweden about 1700 but not until and said that the General, who had The year is a repetition of the 1753 by England.
already gone to bed, had received same months and days, and can
him most discourteously.
Gregory made.
The Starting Place.
to
Christian Era.
very
best be thought of as a circle. A In the year 627 the evidence The Marquis then made his final trip around a circle can start atfes
the time of Christ's throw. He suggested to the Baron any point and similarly the year birth WES not
depend-that he should telephone the Em- could be thought of as starting on able, and it is now believed by many peror, whose headquarters were any day. In fact, throughout the scholars that the calculations on not far distant. Baron von rast, different people have started which the Christian Era was biased Lancken was tupefied at such a the year in all four of the seasons. were in error by from three to suggestion and kept on repeating,
der
In the Gregorian calendar this seven years. The now year there- "Telephone the Emperor. But one date occurs 12 days earlier than in fore is called 1981 not because it is can't telephone the Emperor." the Julian; thus New Year's Day known to be 1900th and 31st year The Marquis tells how the Baron is the English 18th of January. since the birth of Christ, but became to see him a few weeks later, The ancient Egyptians, Phoenic-cause A monk named Dionyslus and Informed him that when the ions and Persiars began their Exiguus wrongly calculated the Emperor learned of the execution year at the Autumnal Equinox birth year. If the present year he was very angry, and reprimand- (September 21) and the Grecks bore its strictly proper label Ited those who had permitted it to! until the 5th Century B.C., at the would probably be numbered be-take place. He gave orders that in Winter Solstice (December 21). tween 1984 and 1938 A.D.-United future no woman was to be execut The ancient Romans once celebrat-Press.
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