The funeral took place last Friday morning of Max Frederic Brolemann, Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, Medaille Militaire, who was Director of the French Municipal Wireless Station. M. Brolemann died on March 2, and last Friday at 815 am. a service was held at St. Joseph's Church, followed by a procession to Lokawei Cemetery. A large number of the public attended the corrige, including the local French officials, representatives of the Municipal Council and well-known business men. The funeral oratio> was delivered by M. Réau, acting French Consul-General.
M. Brolemann was one of those men who should have been among the best known in the community, to which he had rendered incalculable service, but it is a fact that outside the French residents his name even could not be said to he familiar. Yet by his death Shanghai loses one of its most remarkable residents, one who has done more probably than any other hero in recent years to bring this part of China into touch with the rest of the world. Tt is no exaggeration to state that he was a remarkable genius, and the science of wireless telegraphy loses one of its most distinguished exponents in the Far East.
M. Brolemann had spent, 21 years in the Colonial Army in Indo China, and studied wireless tele: graphy. under Maior Pery who is in charge of military fetography there. The erection of the great wireless stations at Hanoi and else where in Tongking were largely due to M. Brolemann's initiative In 1914 he came to Shanghai, and in May of that year the station at Koukaza was established. At the time no apparatus was available from France, so the deceased, with the assistance of Chinese mechanics, personally constructed the entire receiving apparatus.
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Having seen the station establish ed, M. Brolemann proceeded to plan improvements, and his untiring efforts, backed by his great genius culminated in the interception, in September, 1918, of an_ important message from Nauen.. Then a few days later a message from Lyons was picked up. At first it seemed hardly conceivable that this should have been done, the limitations the station had previously been so patent, and above all the receiving apparatus was an improvised one. But there was the fact, a huge personal triumph for M. Brolemann No time was lost in profiting by this, and the first French official communique to the Far East, despatched from Lyons on the evening of Septamber 25, was re-|h ceived instantaneously on the moraing of September 26 at Koukaza. Since then, with occasional in terruptions due to atmospheric
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