Joan of Jehol

According to reports from Chungking last week, Chinese secret-service operatives trailed a Japanese woman, with the blood of Manchu princes flowing in her veins, from Hong Kong, where she directed the activities of 370 Japanese spies in South China, to Tientsin. There, fortnight ago, they shot her dead. If this report of the death of Yoshimiko Kawashima was reliable (the Japanese promptly declared she was merely wounded, later rescued), an end was put to the career of one of Japan's ablest woman spies.

Her father was Prince Su, Manchu noble and courtier, who fled to Japanese-leased Dairen after the republican revolution of 1911 in Peking. Her mother was a Japanese concubine, and a Japanese family adopted Yoshimiko Kawashima and gave her a Japanese education.

Miss Kawashima, who was fond of men's clothes and men's sports, took for her first victim her husband, Prince Fan Chulchab of Outer Mongolia, whose Soviet connections she promptly betrayed to Japanese officers in Dairen. She was credited with inducing Henry Pu-yi to become the Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, with having fought alongside Japanese troops in their 1933 campaign in Jehol. After this campaign, in which she was supposed to have been wounded, she conferred an honor on herself, called herself the "Joan of Arc of Jehol."

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