Show POLICE ROUND UP Baltimore Chinese mess Latest Victim NEW YORK Aug 26 P A-A A A conference lookin looking to a renewal of the ruptured armistice between tween the principal Chinese tongs was held today at police pollee headquarters High officials of the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs participated I BALTIMORE Md Aug 26 AP Louie Kwong pro proprietor of a Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- ne nese restaurant In Druid Hill avenue avenue ave ave- nue nue was shot and fatally wounded by two unidentified Chinese today Kwong died en route to Maryland General hospital His assailants escape NEW YORK Aug 26 AP AP WI Widespread precautions were being taken today by police in nearly every large city of the east and mid mid- in an attempt to c cut t short a anew anew anew new Chinese tong War in which four Chinese have been killed and three wounded in the last twenty-four twenty hours Extra details of 01 police guarded the Chinatowns of ot eight cities More than Chinese have havo been ar ar- ar rested The death score seems to stand four to nothing In favor or the orthe the Hip Sing men Police hero here learned that seventy-five seventy telegrams to this ef effect effect ef- ef were sent out from New York to Boston Chinese leaders all over the country On Leong have been murdered in New York Chicago Minneapolis and Pittsburg one In each city while a former Hip Sing king of 01 St St. Louis' Louis Chinatown has been wounded Seventy-five Seventy Chinese were rounded round ed up in Philadelphia on orders from General Butler fifteen being detained General Butler Intimated that all Chinese without government nt credentials would be deported MANY ROUNDED UP Thirty were rounded up In Newark Newark Newark New New- ark four suspected of or being ImplIcated Implicated implicated in the New York killing Minneapolis MinneapolIs Minneapolis Min Min- neapolis police were ordered to disarm disarm disarm dis dis- arm all aU Chinese in anticipation of or further trouble during the national Hip Sing meeting there next month Efforts to transfer the convention to Cleveland were described by Tom Chan Poy secretary of the Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land On as an an excuse to import Import Import Im Im- port a crowd of 01 gunmen to fight the theOn theOn theOn On Boston Philadelphia W Washington Washing Washing- ton ton Newark Baltimore St St. Louis and Pittsburg are arc strong On Leong centers New Nev York and Chicago are evenly held while the Hip Sings are strong in Cleveland and on the Pacific coast The workings of the tongs have long baffled the police The present present present pres pres- ent war is the s second cond outbreak in twelve years The first culminated last March after a a long string of assassinations The On Leong tong Is the wealthier r of at the principal secret societies being composed chiefly of Chinese merchants The Hip Sings have the larger membership membership member member- ship but are largely laundryman seamen or restaurant workers BECOME FRATERNITIES The word tong means a protective protective protective pro pro- society but since they were organized during the gold rush days In California and Nevada they have become fraternal organizations organizations organizations sworn to protect members against enemies and In some cases holding regional monopolies on gambling and drug selling SIOUX CITY Iowa Aug 26 AP The Tho Tho danger of a tong war is Js still faced her here here Sioux City are living in fear today but all aU re refuse refuse refuse re- re fuse to talk The Chinaman arrested here last night has been Identified as George Carr of St Paul Carr appeared at atthe atthe atthe the hotel in a St. St Paul taxicab An officer arrested the man and tool too him to the station where where he is being be be- be being being ing held for Investigation in connection connection connection con con- with the slaying of 01 Low Suey In In Minneapolis s. s |