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Show TONG WAR AGAIN CAUSIIGTROUBLE SMUGGLING OF CHINESE ACROSS BORDER FROM CANADA IS CAUSE Meditation Fails, According to In spector, and Next Step May Call For Federal Investigation In-vestigation New York, All efforts at me.iita Hon in the tong war in the East have failed and the next stop must be federal fed-eral intervention and deportation ol those responsible for continuation of the murderous feud, Inspector Alfred W. Brought of the Chinese bureau of the immigration service declared. With word of murder of a Chinese in Detroit, the latest victim of rivalry rival-ry between the On Leon and Hip Sing tongs, there was fresh activity by police and detectives here to prevent pre-vent an outbreak of vengeance. Leaders of the On Leons refused to meet lenders of the Hips in a peace parley this week. As a result Inspector Brought announced that he will exert all his influence to bring deportation into play to end the strife. Any Chinese found carrying weapons wea-pons illegally will v,e made liable to i deportation as a "dangerous radical," he said. "And it may be possible even to resoit to wholesale deportations deporta-tions of tong leaders." It developed here that the tong war has a Canadian angle .and an investigation investi-gation has been begun at Ottawa. Reports Re-ports are that it was a "squeal" in connection with the smuggling of Chinese across the Canadian border into the United States which led to the first killing in the present phase of the feud. |