Big Racket: Cars Damaged if Drivers Refuse Payment Insurance companies are being bled thousands of dollars annually by the well-organized "look see" racket of Shanghai. Motorists who refuse to pay the charges of the racketeers have had their tyres slashed or their eouchwork badly scratched, their dashboard appliances either stolen or mashed, or their lamps put out of commission.
Owners, chauffeurs, and even rickshaw coolles are alike victims the racket, If the owner-driver does not pay, his ear is damaged in his absence; ' If the chauffeur does not pay, the car is damaged while he Sloops in It or ts chatting with his friends a few fect away, and he is in trouble with his master for negligence; while for the rickshaw coolie a separate organization has been formed, that milks him of one copper every time during the day that he crosses over one of the Soochow Creek bridges, and two coppers every time he crosses at night.
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