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But what a mad, mirthful mix-up ...becouse Bill's that way about Myma's sister, until Myrna comes along! Even rowdler than "Thin Man"I
William
APOWELL
Myrna
King to See Cup Final
At Wembley
London, Apr. 21.
His Majesty the King is to see the Football Association Cup Flat at Wembley an Saturday next.
Preston North Ела and Huddersfield will meet on thin occasion and nearly 100,000 be- sides the Ring will watch the gaine.
Preston, which lost to Bunder-
final, fand in last year's
will probably be favoured to win next week.--Reuter Bulletin.
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RAPH FRIDAY APRIL
1988.
POPULAR Star Ferry RESIDENT DIES ON WAY HOME
Services Speeded Up
In accordance with a recent re- To those who bade him farewell as quest submitted by the Kowloon Residents' Association, the Star recently as March 0 115 well
Ferry Co., Ltd. announces that us numerous friends in many spheres of life in the Colony, the news, received from to-day, it is extending its five by cable this morning, of the sudden minute service of ferries as follows: From Kowloon; 4.30 to 0.10 p.m. death of Mr. Frederick Louts Rapley
7.50 p.m. from of the Hongkong & South China Gas and from 7.03 to
Ltd., will come as a profound Hongkong: 4.35 to 0.15 p.m. and from
7,00 to 7.35 p.m.
Though Mr. Rapley had stated that ill health was the motive for his de- parture for Home on sick leave by soon established himself as 'u very club lite, the steamship Nagara, he Bact popular figure in local Jovially taken part few nights be-juining the Kowloon Bowling Green tore at a farewell gathering of which Club to whose Committee he was he was the central figure.
Yet before elected a year later. He also was a the ship reached Home and while it member of the Zetland Lodge No. 325 was in the vicinity of Antwerp, Mr. English Constitution and, for a time, Rapley passed away at the still carly of the Engineers' Institute. age of 40 years. With him were his wife and daughter on the voyage.
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His main interest, however, centred in bowls and therefore in the ; News of the death was received K.B.G.C., in which he had served on In Hongkong his morning by Committee continuously since relends, the Swedish East Asiatle and for Company of which Messrs. Gilman's
one term as President, His farewell party was on en- the agents, not having yet thusiastic gathering of some sixty members who, with others, had sub- received the Information.
carpets. scribed for two Tientsin Mr. Kapley, in thanking them, sald he was going Home witli feelings of optimism.
Smart work on the part of the Police has resulted in the recovery
of the valuable are of practically all
Dodwell's from Jewellery stolen Bungalow, Sheung Shui, last Sunday,
One man has been arrested, and wil appear in Court to-day on charges in connection with the robbery.
Money and Jewellery stolen from the Bungalow totalled $7,725 in value and included a string of pearls worth £200 and several diamond rings.
STOP
PREPARING FOR PENGPU DRIVE
Hsuchow, Apr. 22.
To support the Japanese offensive. from Liny!, additional Japanese troops reached Pengpu to-day in pre-] paration for a drive northward along the Tientsin-Pukow Rallway.
CAME OUT IN 1928
Mr. Rapley came from Ilford and was employed in the London office
of the Hongkong & Chinn Gas Co. Sympathy will be extended to his Lid, before, in 1928, he came to this wife and daughter both of whom had Colony us assistant accountant. He many friends in the Colony.
PRESS NEWS
CHINESE
REGAIN POSITION
(Special to "Telegraph")
Taierchwong, Apr. 22. Japanese tanks came close to the Chinese trench positions yesterday The farthest Japanese outposts are and a heavy bombardment forced nie located at waiyuan, north of the to retire from the line at midnight, Kwai River, from which an advance but before that Chinese infantry had will be made.
rallied, driven back the enemy and Movements of Japanese troops in
the recnptured Hungwatung, eight miles known to
Taierchwang from
They are now service, and
sector
Chinese
were
intelligence
REFUGEES FLEE FROM SHANGHAI -DANGER AREAS
Shanghai, Apr. 22. · Gunfire and the rattle of machine- guns were again heard last night in Chapel, Nantno and Siceaweł. Japanese troops were seen on the
move.
veyed wounded Japanese soldiers Just before.dusk, army lorries con- from Nantao to Chupei.
Refugees are pouring in Sungklang, on the Shanghai-Nanking
from
General Li Chung-jen, the Kwas holding this position celo day and Railway, where guerilla forces have
leader, made an inspection of the
Chinese sectors north of Hwalyan
during the early part of the week.
Five thousand men from division under Lieut-General Kenji
The hills night to the tune of 150 guns of 75 been active. Hotels. In the Inter centimetre calibre, mountain batter-Concession are full
national Settlement and the French
to the limit. les and trench mortars on a 22 mile the ne
International, between Talerchwang and Yihsien. Beyond this line of guns are the Japanese positions on some- what higher ground.
Doihara have been switched from the Peiping-Hankow Rallway zones to the south-east Shantung front to
join the offensive under way to-day. |—International.
NINE NEW CASES
OF SMALLPOX Nine cases of smallpox, six cases of meningitis, three cases of typhoid, two cases each of chickenpox and dysentery and one case each of diphtheria and measles were reported to the health authorities yesterday,
General Sun Lien-chung, the man who won
Talerchwang, commands eight divisions in the centre. Fur ther
to the north-east, another strong force blocks the Japanese advance Linyl and Yihsien. There was
hiy eleven miles from road is alse blocked Talerchwang yesterday morning. The
to reinforce- ments from Tsingtao and the enemy in still unable to connect the Linyi and Yihsien lines.
All the commanders in this area are tough, calm and experienced. have suffered defeats in the North and are thirsting for revenge.~-~- United Press.
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