An amusing story concerning the visit of the world-renowned Professor Einstein to Shanghai was.recalled at the weekly tiffin meeting of the Rotary Club of Shanghai on Thursday.
Eager to hear the famous man's views, the Club invited the Professor io address them and the invitation was accepted, with the result that an extra large gathering was present at the appointed time for the address.
The usual preliminaries of welcoming the speaker were quickly gone through and Professor Einstein rose to speak. To the consideration of the gathering, however, the Professor commenced to speak in his native German tongue, with the result that almost all the audience sat there with no inkling of what the address, was about.
The" services of an interpreter were quickly secured but, in the end, these proved futile, as the interpreter himself admitted that he did not know what the eminent man was talking about. The lecture went on, however, although to this day, no one seems to know what its subject was.
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