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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926.

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HAZARDS MOTORISTS FACE DAILY

IN SHANGHAI STREETS.

·OLD MOTORIST GIVES SOME OF HIS EXPERIENCES.

We all have our troubles. There was once a man who started out to end himself, without putting his family under the disgrace of having a suicide, blot on the sscutcheon. He tried drink--but

left me with a ruined dress suit and blistered hands.

"I have waited patiently in Nanking Road while a couple of the gentle sex occupied the fairs way and discussed to finality

it was too expensive; going with their ailments and the price of

OYCLISTS.

"I have observed native

out a hat he merely got sun-cropo-de-ching, burned; drowning-but salt water made him ill. So, after trying various other methods which need. not be gone into, he came to the cyclists, after hesitating for a. conclusion that he was destined fraction of a second to decide to do something grout, and he de-whether to go under, over or round my car, flash past mo and cided to preserve his life by every possibla moans. Ho came to this continue light-heartedly on their conclusion as he was stepping off heroic way. On one occasion,

a trom, and it was the last he just as I emerged from Jinkee over came to. For a motor passad Road, a native cyclist, who was right over him and he was for carrying a tray of confectionery on his head, collided with the over spoiled.

back of the car, and the suddon short, sharp shower of native sweetmeats was greatly enjoyed by several small children in the vicinity.

Every motoris: must have had the experience some time or other in Shanghai of dealing with the pedestrian who appears to have made up his mind to commit sui- cido.on the fonder of his car, and then changes his mind when he

"Not very long ago I drove my is almost on it. This kind of thing car on to the pavement, fortunate- causes more grey hairs than any-ly without catastrophe, in an at- thing else

in the motoring tempt to avoid putting in an world. It stands cut as, perhaps ambulance call for a man who not the worst, but certainly the rushed out of a 'bus travelling at hour, and most frequent of the troubles the twenty miles an motorist has to face while get-bounced into the roadway with ting about Shanghai.

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EXTRAORDINARY HAZARDS. Discussing the question of traffic hazards, a trifle out of tho ordinary, a Shanghai motorist gave an interesting account of his experiences.

A Los Angeles automobile dis- Traftlo problems are just as tributor has offered to permit baffling in the Alaskan cities of prospects to try out a car un-Ketchikan and Juneau as they accompanied by a salesman, The, are in large American cities. theory is that such confidence The difficulty is not an

over.

in the car's own merits, unaided abundance of autos but a lack of by a sales talk, will impress roads, which brings all the cars itself upon the prospect. Finto a small congested district.

Situations of which I have nover dreamed-not even after a crayfish supper-can still arise without the slightest warning and which require an iron nerve to deal with," he said.

In the course of driving many thousands of miles, I have saved the lives of a multitude of cats who have attempted magnificent athletic foats in front of my car cats, by the way," have the same propensity as hens for unneces- sarily crossing roads in the course of their day's work.

such velocity that, to preserve his balance; he had to run so fast ho overtook the 'bus from which he had just merrily alighted.

I have been extraordinarily lucky in avoiding the booby trap oot by many motor cyclists of first. sounding their hooters and then overtaking mg on the wrong side of the car, that is, between the car and the kerb. The only satisfaction I have had out of this form of practical joking happened some time ago when, in response to a frantic hoot, I pulled in towards the korb, and the motor cyclist, who was overtaking ma on his wrong side, was forced to make an unexpected detour by careering down a side street, which happened to be handy. complete with his lady friend, who was riding on the back of his machine.

"I once drovó half-way up the "I have driven the car into a storm drain in an endeavour to side of a water buffalo which was avoid ruining the clothes, and roosting at night in the Western perhaps the anatomy, of a person district without posting red lamps who dashed madly from the back!

of a stationary tram car; in-fore and aft of itself, and a loose cidentally, he continued to dash pony onco sat on the running madly up a side street, utterly board of the car, and I had to ask unconcerned at the 'disaster in

which his dashing had involved it to, got off before I could pro-

cood."

me.

I once had the hood of the car 'But none of these things wor- set on fire by a lighted cigarette ries, me so much as the daily end, which was playfully discard-attempt to avoid the uncertain- ed from a tram window, and the minded suicide who does a step- intensivo-fire brigade work which dance in front of my radiator." the conflagration necessitated (North China Daily News.)

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