Europe are extremely grave with regard to such thefts and in cities of say 30,000 inhabitants it is not at all uncommon for the police records to show that two or three cars have disappeared during a single day. Cases are known of owners, having insured against theft, who have run their cars into a river at an unsuspected point and after the lapse of a suitable period for purposes of search have received their payments from insurance companies. So far in Shanghai the motoring populace have been very fortunate with their cars, not because of any inherent honesty of the place, but because' of the difficulty of dispose -.ing of the loot. However roads
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