The Archive · 1934

MANCHOUKUO'S JOAN OF ARE Story of Girl Who Led Troops in Jehol and Her

Bold Criticisms of Japanese Fxom Ov Own Tokyo, Dec. 20. sensational account, of the Manchuria" of a modern Joan of, Are, briefly appearing in the London "Daily Express" about a month ago, has caused Tokyo newspaper offices to be de-Toged with pressing inquiries corroboration and. further det from editors. of papers and mag: zines, in London and America.

"This evidently is the type of joyous story from oft fafen track which readers abroad grolish, but which, unfortunately, too often are cut from whole cloth. As {most People on. this side of "the Jclaborately embroidered and deli Jeately hued kimono and donned a viding Breeches, armed her-user pistol I She has Inever, since that day, worn the garments of a woman, insisting that become a ma and a gen-feral at. that, She has assumed the} title of "General" Chi ai

pecially her claim to having heard How such of her' conduct ex: Feavenly, voices Urging hes io free Manchuria from fis genuine and. how much of tt! the mischievous retentions of an. @olater and a notoriety seeker, it seems dificult to say. world are aware, the young lady Fesponsible for evoking such wide-wad interest {s none other than las she left Japan.

She pranaly cried) of 'Sha sin. Manchuria and her' life foshiko" Kawashima, a cousin since then hi een a vicissitode of Manchoukuo's chief executive, Henry PUY. She" was, "adopted" fortune. clad in the clothes

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