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Show "PKESE KILLED ' III HEW PORTLAND ' ' . TOIIG WAR Four White Men Are In-jured In-jured as Battle Rages Jn Heart of City. By United Press. PORTLAND, bra, Jane 1 Twt Chineaa warn killed, another fatal!) wnsnided. and four white men and ' a Japanese Injured lata today, when i tha tons war broke oat hero anew. .Tha battle raged np one street and 'down another In tha heart of Port- 1 kind's wholesale district Police and county authoritins expect ex-pect still further shooting tonight. The battla on tha streets today broke ' the tnng peace pact which was signed sot five weeks ago. Tha victims of the battle arc: I DEAD. . . tjdM Chang Hong-, 48. merchant. r i Chong Chow, prominent tongman. INJURED. Louie Him. shot five times through boityr wfl! me. Jamea Hussy, expressman, shot In : arm and leg. W. D. Rlglns, shot twice In leg and .hip. ' Martin Martlnaen. driver, wounded tn abdomen. Yuo Maori, Japanese, 6 years old, I bullet wound in scalp. ' George , longshoreman, cut tn face by flying glass.' ' The battleground bordered ' on i Broadway, Portland's principal thor-loughfsre. thor-loughfsre. The white man and the I Japanese child were Innocent victims of the affair. The Chinese are Bow . Leongs. Two San Francisco gunmen, members mem-bers of the Buey Sing long, were ar-' ar-' rested tonight snd positively Identl- 'fled as the slsyers. They are Suey Foag and Yea Guk. A bullet from the gun of one of 'these tongmen passed through the I skirt of a woman who was passing. . but did not Injurs her. A white man who attempted to atop tha battle was ; forced at tlia point of two automatics to retire. " The battla tonight Is a resumption , of the February add March tong feud ' that raged up and down the coast The affair tonight grew out of a dle-, dle-, rupted peace meeting at San Fran-: Fran-: Cisco. It Is authoritatively reported here that the tong war will break out from ona end of the coast to the other. Peace pacts are "scraps of paper" and civic authorities here tonight , have no more confidence In treaties. ' The police. It Is expected, will adopt some drsstle action, threatened at previous pre-vious outbreaks, to stop the war. |