FIRST FUNERAL BY WIRELESS.
The first radio funeral was reported recently when the steamship President Adams reached Plymouth and landed passengers, from New York. The vessel r?celved a wireless call In midAtlantic for medical aid for Captain Matthews, of tue steamer Hatteras, who, despite the treatment advised by the liner's medical officer, died. The wireless operator of the President then flashed the burial service word by word to tne Hatteras, three hundred miles Hway.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 24 March 1923, Page 19
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74FIRST FUNERAL BY WIRELESS. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 24 March 1923, Page 19
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