CHINESE OFFICIAL SLAIN BY WOMAN. Marshal Sun Chuan-Fang, frequently mentioned as Japan's possible choice to lead an independent
movement in north China, was assassinated by a Chinese woman at Tientsin today, while Japanese police at Shanghai accused Chinese
of new outrages in the increasingly tense Sino-Japanese situation. Vernacular newspapers in Tokio carried reports from Hsinking Manchukuo of a forthcoming secret agreement among the United States, Russia and China to keep armed forces in the orient for the maintenance of peace. Silly, Declares Capital. State department officials in Washington described this report as "too silly and ridiculous" to deserve notice. The woman who emptied her revolver into the body of Marsha Sun Chuan-Fang while he was attending a Buddhist meeting, was said to be the daughter of the executed General Sze Chung-Pin. She was reported to have blamed her father's execution on Marshal Sun. She surrendered to police. Japanese consular police in Shanghai said they had uncovered at least five cases of petty assault by Chinese on Japanese school
children since the slaying of a Japanese marine last Saturday. Japanese Get Warning. The "Society for the Salvation of the Chinese Race" distributed handbills in the Japanese section of Shanghai warning the Japanese to leave China. At Khabarovsk, U. S. S. R. former-Major Sorokin of the white Russian army and his assistant were sentenced to death on charges of directing an espionage system operating from Manchukuo, Japanese-sponsored state. They were reported to have confessed they received orders from a "certain foreign military mission at Harbin, Manchukuo." The report of the imminent tripartite agreement for preservation of oriental peace said Maxim Litvinoff, soviet foreign commissar, and W. W. Yen, Chinese ambassador to Russia, had completed the pact, and that the United States was expected to join soon. Japan Gives Explanation. It was stated authoritatively in Tokio, however, that the headquarters of the Japanese army in Manchukuo originated the report.
These informed sources said the Japanese military, which has been rumored to be planning new moves in north China, was attempting to
create fear of the danger of Russia. They also pointed out the Japanese cabinet will soon prepare its 1936-37 budget, in which the army
wants increased appropriations. The assassinated Marshal Sun, opponent of the Nanking and Canton governments, once held control
of the whole lower Yangtze valley, but after defeats by the Canton.