1938-02-23 — Page 77

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938

PROVINCIAL FACTORIES IN KWANGTUNG

With a view to increasing the output of various provincial fac- tories and maintaining · material resources in wartime, Mr. Hsu Chin-tong, Commissioner for the

FAMED ITALIAN MOTORIST KILLED

The

Paris, To-day.

famous Italian

Reconstruction Department, and racing motorist, Achille Mr. Y. C. Koo, President of the Varzi, was killed in the Kwangtung Provincial Bank, have Libyan desert in an aero- reached an agreement for develop- ing different industries under the plane crash, says "Paris Provincial Government of Kwang-Midi.'

tung.

It is understood that the fac- His plane is believed to have tories which, have been so far in-crashed into a hill top. fluenced by the protracted Sino-

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Japanese warfare, will be supplied He and his companion with sufficient funds to cope with burned to death. the present demand. The bank Varzi was one of the most popu- will help to work for facilities in lar and most successful Italian the sale and transportation of the racing drivers. He first raced for products of the factories both at Bugatti and later for Alfa-Romeo, home and abroad,

and finally drove German Auto- Union cars.

As a result of the agreement, the Kwangtung Industrial Bank, Flying was his big hobby, and which was also established by the when he was not tearing round & Provincial Government and was|raće track he was stunting in his the custodian of the funds of the fast private plane.-Trans-Ocean. factories, was merged to-day into the Provincial Bank.

IDENTITY NOW UNCERTAIN

The agreement has met with the approval of General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Provincial Gov- ernment.

Mrs. Morgan, of 28 Jordan Road, was taken to Kowloon Hospital last night suffering. from the effects of an over- dose of pills taken to cure ૩ cold.

Rome, To-day.

It is now stated that the pilot who was killed when his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert was not the famous international racing motorist, Achille Varzi, as previous- ly. reported.

It is confirmed that the flier's name was Varzi but his identity is still uncertain.-Trans-Ocean.

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