Monday 24. November 1947 - Shanghai Telegraph
The Bund - The famous promenade of Shanghai is festively decorated and this year's participants of the Silkway Rallye stand up along the promenade with their vehicles. Numerous spectators and countless motorsports interested people are walking through the streets to get a glimpse of all vehicles and their drivers, especially the european vehicles are admired. For the representatives of the international press a conference room in the Palace Hotel was reserved and the bookmakers along the streets accepted the first bets. In Class A, the British team was seen in front before the Great Wall team from China. In class A1, the two teams from the UK were seen more or less together on position one, and the Yellow Crane team from China were only given outsiders' chances. In Class B, the bookmakers said they had no favorite, in this class all teams were in a position to win. Class C was split up among the bookmakers in buses and trucks, at the buses the Chinese Yellow Crane team was just in front of the Team55 from Japan; at the trucks the favorite was clearly the Great Wall team from China. And in Class D, the bookmakers saw the Great Wall team ahead of the Japanese team.