"Another Jarge haul was made by farmed robbers in a lane off Taku Road. early yesterday morning when four men carrying pistols obtained jo large amount of money and Parsees New Year The former glory of the ancient Persian empire will be celebrated tomorrow when Parsees, of whom, there is a large Shanghai community, observe the advent of their new year. which is the 1308th of the era of 'Yeztlezard, the last Persian monarch lof the Sassanian dynasty. Owing to fan unfortunate muddle in' the Zoronsrian calendar, however, there is a difference of one month' between the lyeer of Persians Zoroastrians. in Persia and that of their ce-religionist Parsees living in India, The Zoroastrian year consists of }205% days, divided' into 12. months teach of 30'days, At the end of 360 [days five additional or complimentary [days called "Gathas" are added, makig, in reality a year consisting of [365 days only. "In ancient fran (Persia) it was customary to add one month at the end of every. one hundred and twenty years, in' order to surmount the loss of quarter days, thus bringing their calendar in line with and. in strict accordance' with the calculation of the Solar year, This process of intercalation of one was known In ancient Persia sablsseh," and it is said that those Persian Zoroastrians who remained in hiding in Persia after the fall of their Empire either forgot, oF {through their ignorance, neglected to inerealate one-month at the proper. [time of the "Kabisseh," whilst' those Zoroastrians who fled'to India from the mountains of Khorosan had continued this intercalary month at the proper time due for "Kabisseh,
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