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Show SHOTS FLY IN N. Y. TONG WAR NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (U.P) The Hip Sings and On Leongs, tradi-tional tradi-tional and bitter enemies through many years of long warfare, were believed today to have broken the pact in which, only a tfew month3 ago, they agreed to "permanent" peace. ; Abrogation of the agreement was seen in the shooting of- Charles Ye-Kai, laundry owner, who wad attacked by two other Chinese in front of "his establishment in the Bronx this morning and taken to a hospital with serious bullet wounds. m Several months ago the Hip Sings and On Leongs most powerful of the Chinese societies promised the government they would end their feud, which has taken hundreds of h'ves in the last two or three ; decades. The government, in exact- ', ing the promise, threatened to ue-port ue-port wholesale numbers of Tong .members. .. - , Recently the On Leongs have been at war with a smaller group, called the Ton On society, over an alleged opium shipment valued at more than $1,000,000. The president of the Tong On, who Is understood to have guaranteed the safe ar: rival of the shipment and then failed fail-ed in his promise, was assassinated several-months ago. This feud, however, 'did not affect af-fect the "peace pact," since the Hip Sings vere not involved. Today's To-day's shooting indicated the -Hip Sings had been .drawn into .the conflict .on the side of the Tong On group. , : |