The San Francisco call., 1909-01-14
TONG HEAD SECRET
ABETTOR OF WAR
Wong Du King, Chief of Bing
Kungs, Assisting On Yick
and Sney Don Clash
Noted Fighting Leader of Big
Society Ordered by Consul
to Cease Activities

That President Wong Du King of
the Bing Kung tong has been secret
factor in the war between the Suey
Don and On Yick tongs was report
which came to the ears of Consul Gen
eral Hsu Ping Chen and the peace COM
mittee of the Chinese Six Companies
yesterday. Positive statements Of the
| connection of Wong Du King with
the trouble between the On YickS and
the Suey Dons were made by several
neutral tong leaders yesterday. These
assertions so alarmed the Chinese con-
sui general and the peace committee
that the Bing Kung tong president
was ordered to cease all further con-
niving on pain of mourning the most
dire vengeance Of the consul general,
the members of the On Yick and nine
other tongs.
President Seid Bak Sing of the Suey
Don tong was the first of the Suey
Dons or the On Yicks to agree to
peace. Five of his fellow tongsmen
are threatened with prosecution for
the two murders committed in Oak
land. Seid Bak Sing believes that the
On Yicks have witnesses who can posi-
lively Identify the murderers of the
two On Yick members. The Suey Don
president wanted the peace agreement
to include stipulation. that all prose-
cution in the criminal courts should
end. The On Yfcks agreed to postpone
all court cases until after February
10, but they would not agree to stop
the scriminal prosecution of the Suey
Dons concerned in the Oakland MUIR
ders.
/ Wong Du King is the leader of one
of the most powerful fighting tong
families in America Many efforts have
| been made by the local police to con-
vict him of completely in murder cases.
A short time before the fire he was
under Indictment for murder, but the
fire DESTROYED all the records and the
witnesses for the prosecution mys-
| teriously disappeared. His tong has
been involved in wars in the last Is
years in which more than 80 of the
Hip Sing and Hop Sing tongmen have
been killed. In all of these wars Wong
Du King has been the leader of the
Bing Kung tong.
Owyang Wan, vice president of the
Suey Dons, was the leader of the Suey
Don faction which refused for several
days to enter into any peace agree
ment. This caused Seid Bak Sing, the
tong's president, to lose his face in
anger, but he was unable to under
stand the reason for the vice presi-
dents action. The consul general and
the peace committee were told yester-
day that Owyang Wan was taking pro-
gram from Wong Du King and the lat
ter was Immediately ordered to keep
on the fence.
| Another report which greatly alarmed
the peace committee and the consul
general was that the Suey Dons were
asked to consider a proposal made to
them by Bing Kung tongmen to kill
members of the On Yicks in Sacramento
| for $1,000 a head. There are but a
comparatively small number of On Yick
men in the capital city and the Bing
Kung tongs have a powerful branch
! there. In addition to this statement
| another report was received by the
peace workers yesterday that the Spey
Dons were asked to pay $40, 900 for the
| head of a Chinese editor named Tong.
The reason given the consul general
and the peace committee for the part
Wong Du King is accused of taking in
the tong war Is that he is seeking
vengeance against the On Yick tong
because it was members of this So
ciety who were the principal witnesses
| against him when he was indicted for
murder.