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ON February 3 a new Marconi beam wireless station was opened at Chenju, near Shanghai, to give direct radio communication with Great Britain, and it is anticipated that within the next year Shanghai will be in telephonic communication with London. This will add yet another link to the already widespread ramifications of the international radio telephone service available from London. In announcing the opening of the new station, the Times recalled the fact that the first wireless station in China was erected by that journal at Wei-hai-wei in 1904 in order to receive dispatches during the Russo-Japanese war from its correspondents on board a steamer specially chartered for the purpose. The Marconi Co. later undertook the establishment of communication for the Chinese Government, and the recent extension referred to above is due to the enterprise of the Ministry of Communications. The whole of the technical material used for the Chenju station was purchased in Great Britain with funds from the British Boxer indemnity, and Chinese engineers have co-operated most effectively in the installation.
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Beam Wireless Communication with China. Nature 133, 205 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133205b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133205b0