Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . e annexation, be accorded due andappropriate treatment. All Koreans, being under Our direct sway, willenjov growing prosperity and welfare, and with assured repose andsecurity will come a marked expansion in industry and trade. Weconfidently believe that the new order of things now inauguratedwill serve as a fresh guarantee of enduring peace in the Orient. We order the establishment of the office of Governor-General ofKorea. The Governor-General will, under Our direction, exercise thecommand of the army and navy, and a general control over alladministrative fun
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . e annexation, be accorded due andappropriate treatment. All Koreans, being under Our direct sway, willenjov growing prosperity and welfare, and with assured repose andsecurity will come a marked expansion in industry and trade. Weconfidently believe that the new order of things now inauguratedwill serve as a fresh guarantee of enduring peace in the Orient. We order the establishment of the office of Governor-General ofKorea. The Governor-General will, under Our direction, exercise thecommand of the army and navy, and a general control over alladministrative functions in Korea. We call upon all Our officialsand authorities to fulfil their respective duties in appreciation of Ourwill, and to conduct the various branches of administration in con-sonance with the requirements of the occasion, to the end that Oursubjects may long enjoy the blessings of peace and tranquillity. {His Imperial Majestys Sign-^Ianual){Privy Seal) The 29th day of the 8th month of the 43rd year of Meiji. 9i ST —. 42. Count Terauchi (#ftiF.^ffl), FirstGovernor-General (I9IO-19I6). gendarmes Ijeing distrilnited even inthe remote interior of the Peninsula,were the insurgents or brigands,ranging the country without definitepurpose excejjt that of preying uponpeaceful jicojjle of means, obliged todesist from their activity. Thanks The vital object of annexationbeing chiefly to secure jjcace andtran([uillity for the Peninsula, guaran-tees in that sense were provided bythe miification of the police systemand the gendarmery—hitherto operat-ing independently—which was carriedinto eftect in June, 11)10, as a prepa-ration towards annexation. Especial-ly^ after the annexation, police or
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