Daily News from New York, New York • 5

SUNDAY NEWS, 'OCTOBER 19, 1924. UNDER PLACID EXTERIOR A NEW TONG WAR SEETHES IN CHINA TO WN Feud Has Already Spread To Three States Chinatown is seething with currents too strange for the occidental mind to fathom. Chinatown, peaceful Chinatown, where before there were only sightseeing buses, tourists, lec turers, and the most i nocuous of chop s.u joints, is full of real excitement. Peril lurks in the little crooked streets. i stols pop and silent, i eted figures lie on the pavement.

Policemen are thicker than flies at a picnic and the inhabitants, as usual. j-4V- err il Ko Low know nothing. Many Killings Follow New Tong Clash. Another tong war has broken out among the Chinese. It started without warning in New York's Chinatown and spread Quickly to three other states.

Many deadly feuds have been settled with revolver or knife in the narrow, twisted streets of Chinatown. And after each killing there is always another score to settle. The impassive Oriental faces of the inhabitants tell nothing. Detectives have a hard time finding what it is all about and a still harder one stop-1 ping the fuss. there is really something exciting to see.

For almost a dozen years peace has reigned in the tortuous passages of Mott, Pell and Doyers streets. In 1913 Tom Lee, the benevolent "mayor of Chinatown," as he was called, negotiated a three-cornered truce between the Hip Sings, the On Leongs and the Four Brothers. Those most familiar with the inner workings of the tongs believe that if Tom Lee were alive today there would still be peace. But the philosophic old Chinaman, whom neither the bombs nor bullets of rival tongsmen could budge from his monumental calm, died three years ago. Ever since A blind street of Chinatown, Dover looking toward Mott st.

then the police have been waiting her from her evil ways and while each other. Nil.iy i with dread in their hearts for the converted, she met and mar- However, it seemed that the ktil- i ried Chin Len, an On Leong mem- tong war to break out again. ng of tins national kruwn ber. on whose oriental mind hns- hor twenty years before that tianity had made very little im- i hinaman -a as the re i't a per-Chinatown was a place of sudden pression. Chin put Bow Kum in a 1 sonal rather than a feud.

Where this new tong war will end is something the police have to worry about. Bursting out suddenly eleven days ago when a homeless sailor drew his gun in Pell st. and began shooting, the feud has already spread to three other states Jersey, Pennsylvania and Illinois. And in Chinese colonies even more distant the reverberations are felt. New Thrills.

In less than a week eleven lives u-ere snuffed out, quickly. efficient-It and with total unexpectedness. Chinese gitnmen flit from citu to city. Weapons are hidden in suitcases full of laundry or vegetables. Murderous thoughts lurk behind impass'ive Oriental visages.

And the tourist industry in Chinatown has taken on a next- thrill. At lust and inexplicable violence. A China- i 'jiv? in Oakland. Cal. A former N.

thing happened, and the weetheart and Four Brother man tives turned to othrr ma'U-r tried to rescue her. man would be shot down suddenly. Immediately afterward the stret would be empty. Celestials who Kleven days ago th Chin Len stunted her away to' 7 (I ICl d. 1 ork hinatou-n.

ichrre halt long rfccni a year later she was brutally rnur- o'ht tuny war out with a'l at rea. 1 wo htnamen were saia to have threatened Chin I. en tor stealing the woman of a fellow tong member were tr'ed and a'-Ouitted. Chin, whose own hands were bloody after the murder aid who got himself into a'l sots of contradictions in his effort to explain away other cot'Tradir' mis, never was tried. Fuel to Flames.

Bow Kum's death added fuel the flames of tong hatreds. Blood flowed for more than a year because of it, and at least four mur 'he signs of long and U'-eln existence ahead. Toix Fong, the Titles sailor who tit art cd to shoot up Pel! st. on that eve im. 's d.ail as a result.

Si is l.o lituk. chop suey of 1 it net st, Lee So (i Hto iri shot down in r) h. A Chinaman wits ti J. tu-o nthfrs in IlrooHun tk bott'ts of the tonga hare f-iii thrtc in Ch caqo. A tot there t-o nd in sight.

Theft. That intricate war now going on in China, business rivalry here, al- ders were said to have been done leged vi ations of the peace pact. in reprisal. And beside that there are aid to be contributing motiv Bow Kum, the murderd Chinese bride. was the usual run of tong shootings.

One night in 1 0 three On I I.eor.gS lurked outside the Hip' Sing headquarters on the Bowery and potted the society's officers as they came out from a meeting. One bullet zinped into a saloon and i were questioned would shake their I heads and have a hard time understanding English. Thev knew nothing about it but not long afterward another pistol would 'gshoreman But th v. 1 Xl-r' Hip Sings came back. A few davs i belch forth death to another China- man almost always a member of a rival tong.

later they went into the territory of their rivals and shot down two On Lcones at the "Bloody Angle' where Pell and Doyers streets come together. Too much murder proved bad for business in Chinatown. Tourists kept awav from the curio Deadly Enemies. The Hip Sing and On Leong tongs have been bitter and deadly enemies for half a century. But their gunplay first began here shops and the chop suev restau 1 some twenty-two years ago wllen rnnts- So the powerful Chinese iv: 4 a man named Mock Duck came to aoe.a.ion, tne m- nese consul, a judge or two.

and Chinatown and immediately be- several individual peacemakers like came the center of a gambling war. Tom Lee negotiated a truce. And Mock Duck got the police and the ten years after that feuds crime raiders on his side and in Chinatown, the I im. c- i 0lu deadline ceased to exist, and as head of the Iffp Sings, he was the wurists bou ht I immensely powerful. Theoretically hinatown was cleaned up; perhaps Long beared Happens so far as gambling went, it ac- Tom Lee, the peacemaker, ho tually was.

But something much happened to be an On Leong, died more turbulent than gambling was ti. in Jl. I ne next year saw the let loose, and during Mock Ducks r. i reign the tongs fought with increas- or nr. tong too Leung.

ing violence. At one time the Hip head vj the Hip Sings, whose ef-Sings shot up a whole theatre full forts for peace were quite as enee- of their enemies. tu- a tive. I hree weeks after the death Gambling and the dubious favors of the white women who flit the worthy doctor, violence through Chinatown have been the broke 0ut again in Chinatown. Ko cause of many of the killings.

But president of the Hip there was one tong murder which Sings and a prosperous importer. had. a far more romantic insnira-' K'as sftot dead Pelt st- a tion than any of the others, that stepped from a restaurant with a was the slaying of Bow Kum in Prett'J white woman on 1909. Bow Kum, the pretty little i each ann- Chinese girl, had been the play- Every one held his breath at this thing of a rich Chinaman. in San outburst.

The opposing torgs pro-Francisco. A mission worker' saved tossed the greatest friendship for An innocent little bystander. to the present struggle of the ongs. the immediate cause is aid to be the glad hand given by the Hip Sings to some bad men who had stolen from the On Leor.g treasury in Cleveland. Detectives are assured earnestly leading Chinamen deplore the tong warfare, that it is only the bad gunmen who carry it on.

Bnt rtfardless of all this pistols blaw ar bullets bring Hfath to Orien-fil after Oriental 'Bloody' Angle 8t Pell and Doyer sts. in Chinatown..