New Britain herald., 1922-08-08
CHINESE TONG WAR
 IN N. '. IS RESUMED
Murder of Leader Probably r, Signal for Warfare

New York, Aug. s,-chinatown to- day seethed with rumors and persist ent signs Of panic among it's Oriental population while the body Of ko Low national president of the Hip Slags lay In state in the tong's headquar- ters in Pell street. ko Low died early today after Chinese gunmen toppled him into the gutter with bullet in his back as he left a Chin ese restaurant within the bounds of Hip Sing territory, across from his home
 The usual throngs in the Chinese quarter were absent today, There were those. however, who loitered in doorways peerine intently out in quest of strange Oriental faces for the slay- CTS of the powerful tong chieftain were declared to have been strangers in the Chinese section populated by the Chinese.
 The police who flooded the quarter scouts reports that ko Lows mur- der means a reopenine Of the wars of the past that swept Chinatown leaving dozens of tong men dead along
  On Leong territory from that of the Hip Sing and Bing Kong tongs.
 Chinese Are Reticent.
 The Chinese never talk about their affairs with the Concessions. Especial ly are they reticent when questioned by police officials and the police have little to work on in trying to trace the slayers of ko Low Hip Sing of fcals sat with faces as expressionless as those of waxen images in their lodge rooms. They said little. thought much while their men combed the city seeking the identity of their high chiefs slayers.
 We do not know what it is about" said Lee Yee Hing, state president of the Hip Sing tong When we find out who the killers are then we will know how to act and what to do."
 It is more than seven years since Eng Hing and Lee Dock of the Hip Sings were executed for a Tong fight in which four men were killed. They were the first Chinamen to pay the extreme penalty for settling clan AdllCQs NllIl plslOlS III lIS open streets The effect was magical. The Hips and their allies. the Four Broth ers, dwelt at peace on the On Leong tong and even if the On Leongs did resent being outnum bered and out influenced by the coalition, they made no overt act.
 New Aninosities Possible.
 
 whose men once kept their fingers closely on the pulse of Chinatown has passed away, but some of its veter- ans now are attached to the Oak street station which polices the district south of Chatham square. Those men recalled as they went scurrying toward the shooting. that about year ago Tom Lee, Chinatown's former mayor had died and that the settle ment at about the same time had lost Dr. Fong Foo Leung who was head of the Chinese Masons in this country. Those who ruled with strong hands and both were for peace. Another who has so declined in influence that his old haunts seldom see him is Mock Duck, once leader of the Hip Sings. Moreover Chinese in New York are not unmindful of political distur- bances in their own country, Dr. Sun Yat Sen has warm supporters and equally fervent enemies and altogeth- CT there was reason to fear that the vivid lesson dealt out in the Sing Sing death house might be losing it's inn pressiveness.
 Chinese Chief.
 Ko Low was with May Malsbenden and Kitty Raventte, both of whom live at 203 West Eighty-fourth street, when he dined in the local Delmon- ioos, came out and shambled toward his own home at the corner of Doy CTS and Pell Walking between his companions, he got just in front of the bulletin board tackled on the Pell street wall of the structure. It was on that bulletin board that the Hips, 1 the On Leongs and the Four Brothers