Tientsin, Jan. 12.
Miss Yoshiko Kawashima, cousin of Emperor Kangteh of Manchoukuo, who was active in the founding of that state, probably will recover from the serious and painful injuries she received here on New Years Eve. persons close to the former princess indicated here today.
Miss Kawashima was attacked by four Chinese while she was visiting Mrs. Wang Chu-lin, wife of a millionaire trader who was murdered last December, at the Mackenzie Memorial Hospital, Rue de Taken, in the French Concession here. Mrs. Wang was killed.
Miss Kawashima, who was also active on behalf of the Japanese in Shanghai during the 1932 hostilities, was taken unconscious to another hospital where she was registered under a fictitious name. Her condition was described as critical at the time.
Miss Kawashima, proprietress of a Chinese restaurant om Matsushima Street in the Japanese Concession here, is the daughter of the late Prince Ssu of the Manchu dynasty who fled to Port Arthür in 1912. She was adopted as a child by Mr. Naniwa Kawashima, adviser io the old Chinese Imperial Government. She was reared and educated in Japan d was once married to a Mongol prince, whom she later divorced. She often disguised herself as a man The slayers of Mrs. Wang were captured by the French police—Domei.
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