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Show oo CHINESE SIGN A TREATY OF PEACE New York, Dec. "o Peace has come to Chinatown at last. With all tho ceremonla! display that might characterize charac-terize an international treaty, the On Leong tong and tho Four Brothers' society solemnly affixed their seals and signatures at midnight to the loug talked of document, which re-establishes friendly relations after years of bloody warfare. In the shadow of I the great Jo;-s which dominates the temple of the quarter and with the 1 child ruler of the Flowery Kingdom represented in the persons of two attaches at-taches of the Imperhi legation at Wasblnston and Consul General Y. Yee Yulng. the signatures were affixed af-fixed and the signers shuffled away to feast In honor of the new-made pence. The restoration of diplomatic relations rela-tions followed Interchanges of ceremonial cere-monial visits between the high con- ! trading parties. Under the leader-' leader-' shirt of the imperial representatives, a U legation of five On Leonga called at the Four Brothers' headquarters and mi returning to their own b.illdlng received n similar visit. All of the I parties to tho contract then traversed . the quarter to the temple and the treaty was sipned. |