Two Wreaths Laid: All Warships Dressed All foreign warships in port Nov. 4 dressed ship for the second time in two days, the occasion being the local celebrations of Italian Armistice Day, The World War left ither front on November 4, "protection" Racket Attempts at extortion, or to squeeze shipping men, have occurred rather regularly in Shanghai, Nearly all of the shipping interests have time' oF another encountered racketeering element, The old "protection" racket is one! for the favourite lines of waterfront gangsterism. A man will approach Shipper and offer to protect his cargo from other gangs for 80 much money. Shippers sometimes proter to pay small amount rather than risk: valuable cargo.
On the SMC. pontoons lately, the) gang element has confined Its activi-les for the most part to insistence on unloading cargoes at its particular prices, despite the fact that the customary procedure is for the crews fon the trucks to do the unloading Widesp-ead inquiries reveal that the racketeers vary the nature and strength of their approaches according to what shipping interests they are trying to squeeze.
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