Show ASSASSINATION NATION IN CHINATOWN Another Chinese tong war has brok broken n out In the United States It II is ig not confined to anyone any one place hut has haR dIsturbed the police force of oC half a dozen cities New r York Chicago Pittsburg Boston St Sl Louis Juls and other corn com s heard the shots whIch brought death The Chinese tongs when they fight know no code of honor As- As AsI I Is resorted to a and d any member of a tong may be the vie i tim Um 1 The conflict Is much like liko one ot of those these feuds In the mountaIns of which Involved many families and brought death not ale at- 1 ways to the principles but Quite I often onen to associates I Years lears ago the police pollee ot of San SanI I Francisco were intro Introduced to this i Chinese and round found the I task of suppressing the conflicts most difficult Thero would be an assassination In San Francisco's I Chinatown and not not one word of I as to who vho committed I I the tb crime c would be volunteered by by the slant eyed witnesses of the af a- fairs Tho tongs would kill and 0 oen en thc sIde suffering a loss would re- re rethe sc-nt sc the intrusion of the police poUce Their law was the gun and only after their arranged n a truce lid dId the murders stop Terms of amity would he be a agreed reed on then one would vIolate the corn com pact and the war would woul break out again Every Chinese community has representatives s of the tongs and when the feud starts In New York or San Francisco the echo of it 1 F heard In all Quarters Of late the Chicago gunmen seem to have adopted the Chinese method They are made up of gangs living on the he wages of sin and the they kill and expect to be killed nn |