"If there was no December 10 as far as we are concerned, and King Edward is affirmed to have abdicated fon that day, and if we had no May 12 yet by the chronicles of the land His Majesty King George was crown~ ed King that day, who then is our King?"
The answer to that, as they said themselves, was an easy one, of course. Yet the question aptly summarizes the curious coincidence which forced these loyal Britons to, erase from their calendar, and hence from their reckoning, two days which. have been of such vital importance other Britons all over the world.
The officers and crew of the Javanese Prince are not the first 10 have remarked upon the. curious tricks the 180th Meridian plays, yet the coincidence which made them lose two very important dates in less than a year is probably without a peer. It is even better than some Of the fiction stories and amusing
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