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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 8

j A series of coincidences nothing !ess , tliau amazing is brought to light by the death in action of two Thomas and Walter Maggs (says the London "Evening News'"). Left orphans at an early age, thev were educated together at the Printers' Orphanage, and eventually worked for the same firm. Other links in, the chain of coincidences that ran through their lives were: They married two sisters on the same day. They lived in adjoining flats. They both joined the London Regiment together. Thev went to the front together. They fought side by side for twenty-one months. They returned on leave together last December. They went back to France together on December i 29th. On Jnnuarv 19th the last and | most tragic coincidence occurred—they [ were both killed by the same shell. | Signor Cappelli's beautiful voica, ! combined frith his evident popularity, threatened to do all hut wreck the popular concert arranged by the Royal Philharmonic Socicty and held in the Town Hall, Sydney, on Saturday, April 13th. After his first number, Signor CappolM explained as best he cou'd. with gracious gestures and a pathetic grimace, that he was quite willing to sing an encore, but the management bohind were unwillmg to allow their strict rule of "No encores" to be broken. The , audience went wild after and be- > haved with all the irresponsibility of a mob there being nearly twenty minutes' continuous applauding. But the management remained adamant, and won the day; Signor Cappelli was not allowed to sing an encoro* ,