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Show TOM WAR BREAKS OUT IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, June 20 Tong war that stops, but never dies In spite of threats, promises and solemn treaties, broke out today in China town. In ninety seconds three Chinamen were whot, two of them fatally, a third was, painfully wounded aud more than forty for-ty shots froiu heavy calibre revolvers spattered against the bricks or pavements. pave-ments. In three minutes following seven Chinamen were arrested. It happened that the 2,000th anniversary anniver-sary of the founding of the society of the Four Brothers fell on this day and in Its honor the members were to give a banquet in Pell street at G o'clock. A mon6ter flag scalloped in green, floated from the banquet hall and guests began to arrive early from all parts of the city and from neighboring neigh-boring towns. It was In the rnldsf rt a restles?, shuffling throng, Bown thick with policemen po-licemen that the shooting begar There Is no certainty of the precla? provocation, but it is generally understood un-derstood In China town that the Ong Ieong tong did not rel'sb the fact that Chu Hen, recently acquitted of tho murder of an Ong Leong tong man, was to be honored. The Hop Sing tong, the Ong Leong tong and the four brothers occupy rath its own station and no prudent member of one society trespasses on the territory of another pickets. Pickets had been posted today at the end of Pell street by the Four Broth-' ers and scouts of the Ong Leong tone patrolled the adjacent boundary of Molt street- There were no more polleornen on the beat thau usual because of th banquet. Somebody steppod over the line. Somebody began to shoot. It Is doubtful If any whltemnn will ever know who trespassed and who punished pun-ished because the rain of bullets came too fast from too many Chinamen at once for the eye to catch the first flash. No Chinaman will ever tell. |
