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LONDON, December 12.
The “Daily Express” says that Hon. Alexander Shaw is going to Australia within a few days to assist a conference to discuss a counter-action to American subsidised competition between Australia and New Zealand.
SHANGHAI. December 12.
The last official act of the British Minister (Sir Miles Lampson) prior to his departure to assume the High Commissionership of Egypt, was the granting of a. reprieve commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment of Mrs. Katherine Hadley, the first British woman sentenced to death in China, following (he fatal stabbing of her lover, Captain Walter Young, a mariner.
PRINCETON (New Jersey), Dec. 12. That the scientific training of Einstein did not prevent him making most common errors, has been proved by the fact that after listening to a recital by a choir, arranged in his honour here, and being affected to tears by a composition of Dvorak’s, he enthusiastically congratulated the soprano, but apparently chose the wrong 1 soloist, The girl “nearly died from embarrassment,”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 December 1933, Page 6
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