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Show I 'Mata Hari of Japan' Assassinated in Tientsin CHUNGKING, China, Jan. t (UP) Miss Ymhlmko Kawaehima, known aa "tha Mata Hart af Japan," Ja-pan," waa aaeaealnated at Tientsin on Friday, tha Chinese Central Newa agency reported today. Tha agency asserted that Miaa Kawaehima, who waa the tenth daughter of Prince 8u of tha Man-ehu Man-ehu dynasty, but waa adopted by a Japanese family when 8u waa exiled, had gone to Tientsin for rest after directing the activities of a Japanese apy ring allegedly centered at Hong Kong. While in Tientsin she was shot and killed, the agency aald, but It did not give any details. According to stonea circulating In China. Mum Kawashima we an important figure in the Japanese conquest of China. i She waa educated at Ragodo. Japan, and often wore male dress. At the age of 1 aha married Prince Fan Chulchab of Inner Mongolia. It waa alleged that tha marriage waa arranged by Japanese military expansionists, with whom Miaa Kawaehima Ka-waehima waa working. Two month after tha marriage, ha disappeared and with her disappeared dis-appeared Important Information concerning Inner Mongolia. From that point, It waa aaeerted, arte began be-gan wideapraad espionage work for the Japanaae. She waa credited with cooperating cooperat-ing with the famous Jepaneee military mili-tary agenC General Kanto Dolhara, In kidnaping Henry Pu-yi from Tientsin and making him emperor of the new Japanese-dominated state of Manchukuo. In 131. It was said, she disguised herself aa a Chinese army officer and attempted attempt-ed to Meal Chinese military information infor-mation at Shanghai and Nanking. In 1(33 she organized the "Iron blood army" of Manchuria and Joined the Japanese armiee In the conquest of Jehol, where ah waa wounded during an engagement. Recently aha had been reported directing the activities of 170 Japanese, Japa-nese, Korean and Formoaan women who were spire In South China, with headquarters at Hong Kong, |