The Archive · 1921

Mishap in Nanking Road

While trying to avoid a Chinese riding on_a bicycle in front of the Sincere Ca., on Nanking Road, at 4.45 p.m. on Wednesday,' a Scripps-Booth motor car, going east, collided with a Bubbling Well tram car which was going west. The motor car was badly damaged, the whole front of the car being smashed. The front axle was broken, one of the wheels was knocked off completely, while the other one was broken. In addition to this, the glass screen was smashed and the car received several other minor injuries. A foreign Be. an gentlemen, who were seated in the car at the time, sustained injuries from the flying' glass. present rate of exchange, is nearly 10,000,000. Besides this there la reserve fund of $400,000.

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