NEW TRAGEDY IN JAPAN.

Shannon News, 24 September 1926, Page 2

NEW TRAGEDY IN JAPAN.

MODERN MISS SHOOTS HER LOVER TOKIO, June 80. Miss Aiko Fukaya, 17-year-old miss of New Japan, tke first young lady of this old land to turn a gun on a lover who has proved disappointing, is running true to the Hollywood form she set out to ihiitate. She has just signed a contract with a prominent movie producer, and proposes to realise on all the publicity that came her way when she pulled the trigger. • Miss Aiko, petite, bobbed-haired and flapperish in the modern way, disdaining kimono in favour of knee-length skirts and scorning to be a clinging vine, such as most of her Japanese sisters are taught to be, likewise turned against the youths of her own land and cultivated those from Western countries. She made life in Japan less lonesome for the Embassy secretaries, and a number of the young business men oi;

the Kobe and Tokio younger set, her affections finally centreing on a dashing Italian, who occupied a cottage in the grounds of the Italian Embassy. “Shut Your Eyes.” Galling upon him one evening recently she found him cold, especially when reminded that he had promised to present her with a diamond ring he was wearing. Wearied of importuning him for the ring, she suggested the good old gpme of “Shut your eyes and open your mouthy” and the youth fell for it. With eyes tightly shut and mouth widely agape he waited for the next ; move. He got it in the shape of a 32-calibrc bullet at a point due south of the solar plexus. Opening his eyes, but leaving his mouth as it was, he dashed for a doctor. Miss Aiko was arrested, tried in a glare of publicity, and told to go away and shoot no more. She will 'start on her first picture immediately.