Dies at 70
Brussels Mayor's Brave Stand in Face of German Invasion, 1914, Recalled Brussels, Nov. 6- Sir Adolphe Eugene Jean Henri Max, Burgomaster of Brussels, died here today at the age of 70. To friends and former foes alike, Sir Adolphe Max will always be remembered as "Burgomaster Max." As Mayor of Brussels during the Great War, he earned the admiration of the world and the respect even of his enemies, by his heroic stand against the invader.
At the first onrush of the Germans in 1914, he set about organizing committees to assist the war-stricken citizens and control the price of food. Ambulance posts were hastily improvised in schools and any other available buildings and Burgomaster Max personally intervened to stop German riots, On August 17, he sent the municipal treasure to Antwerp and three days later drove in person with the white flag to Louvain to parley with the German vanguard and to prevent, if possible, a repetition of atrocities. such as had been committed in certain other towns and villages through which the invaders had gassed.
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