Review of reviews and world's work . annexation, not onlybetween Korea and foreign countries, butalso between Korea and the Japanese Em-pire proper. The fiction of independence was Japan s r course not satistactory or profitable tojustified the Koreans. At the same time it greatly hampered the Japanese in theirefforts to bring the country abreast of moderntimes. The chief point of concern to foreignnations in the formal annexation is the mat-ter of ex-territoriality. Hereafter Japan willcontrol the Korean courts. She will guar-antee that justice will be done in them, andwill probably require t
Review of reviews and world's work . annexation, not onlybetween Korea and foreign countries, butalso between Korea and the Japanese Em-pire proper. The fiction of independence was Japan s r course not satistactory or profitable tojustified the Koreans. At the same time it greatly hampered the Japanese in theirefforts to bring the country abreast of moderntimes. The chief point of concern to foreignnations in the formal annexation is the mat-ter of ex-territoriality. Hereafter Japan willcontrol the Korean courts. She will guar-antee that justice will be done in them, andwill probably require the Western powers tosurrender the rights they have held for years,to have their nationals tried in Korea by theirown consuls. Although the act of annexa-tion has been criticized by the press of Russiaand other continental European countri ricult to see how Japan, placed as she iscould pursue any different course. The gov-ernment at Toyko faced in Korea much thesame problem as that which faced the govern-ment of the United 5 ur occu-. pation of the Philippines. She might haveabandoned Korea with the certainty ofchaos following. She might have surrenderedit to another power. Or, she might extendover Korea her complete rule. She took thisway as did our own government in the Philip-pines. Japan needs Korea for the expansionof her growing population. Its completecolonization and modernization will absorb agood part of her energies for a generation ormore to come. ne Menace DurinS nlonth of Septemberof the energies of the medical staffof our immigration authoritieswere devoted chiefly to preventing the en-trance into this country of the dreadedcholera germ. The terrible epidemic of chol-era, which in its present course originatedsome months ago in Southern Russia, hasalready claimed more than 100,000 victimsin that Empire. It has spread East and West,across Siberia as far as Manchuria, and intoEurope as far as some German points andRome, Naples and other cities of Italy. Wecall
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