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Last week the Federal Government exported 42 Chinese from Ellis Island as the result of raids in Manhattan's Chinatown, while some 200 more were held for deportation at the Government's expense (about $200 a head). Tong wars (TIME, Sept. 7, 21) had resulted in drawing the attention of immigration officials to the number of Orientals who could show no good reason for their continued presence...
Meanwhile in Boston. Joe Wong, laundry Tongster, was shot down over his shirts and soiled linen. Police Captain Goodwin threatened to have Boston's Chinatown condemned and destroyed by the Board of Health and Building Commissions, and to undertake deportation proceedings in his bailiwick...
...Cleveland, Yee Chock was decapitated with an ordinary meat cleaver in his room in the Chinatown. Police and health officials promptly made a raid and seized about 500 Chinese. City Manager Hopkins ordered fire and health authorities to proceed with condemnation proceedings of homes and filthy firesides...
...next afternoon police raided a barber shop in Manhattan's Chinatown. They rushed up the stairs and heard feet pattering on the roof. They opened the hatch and saw no one. They went out on the roof to search and a fusillade of shots fell about them from a roof across the streets. Forty shots were fired but no one was hurt. In a safe below they found ten new automatics, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and six steel vests. Henry Moy, his brother Frank and other prominent On Leongs stood across the street watching the proceedings...
...Sings and the On Leongs, the two tongs concerned in the present outbreak, fought in 1910. In 1912 the nephew of On Leong Mayor of Manhattan's Chinatown was killed by two Chinese, both subsequently electrocuted. In 1922 the head of the Hip Sings choked and fell faceforward upon the asphalt of Pell Street, Manhattan, with a bullet in his heart. Another war flickered briefly last year until it was ended by the efforts of Arbitrator Lee Kue Ying, rich merchant. Last week Ying, presumably of natural causes, perished. It was on the afternoon of his death that the wires...