Review of reviews and world's work . Licutenant-General Ter-auchi. the country ha- been comparativelyquiet. It has. moreover, made great prog-ress mi the way toward a truly modern |eminent and a measure of commercial and in-dustriaJ prosperity. wt,., , Not even the most rabid of anli- Japanese will deny that theKorcvi of to-day i- vastly betterof! than the country was before the has built railroads, constructed high-ways, introduced water-work-, lighthouscientific sewage systems, telegraphs, tele-phones and a modern postal service. Shehas established school- and hospitals, reor-ganiz
Review of reviews and world's work . Licutenant-General Ter-auchi. the country ha- been comparativelyquiet. It has. moreover, made great prog-ress mi the way toward a truly modern |eminent and a measure of commercial and in-dustriaJ prosperity. wt,., , Not even the most rabid of anli- Japanese will deny that theKorcvi of to-day i- vastly betterof! than the country was before the has built railroads, constructed high-ways, introduced water-work-, lighthouscientific sewage systems, telegraphs, tele-phones and a modern postal service. Shehas established school- and hospitals, reor-ganized tile courts, put the currency on a goldbasis, recodified the mining laws, adopted anentirely different attitude toward mission-aries and. in general, vastly improved thecondition of the country and its people. Allthe old treaties of Korea with the rest of theworld have, of course, lapsed automaticallyby the annexation. In the matter of tariffrelations, however, the Japanese Governmenthas seen fit to adopt a generous and enlight-. K1N. M> HOLAS Wl Ml- \KMY (Th* THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 417 ened attitude. Instead of immediately ap-plying the rates of the newly adopted Japan-tariff to imports in Korea, the ForeignOffice at Toyko has announced that, for aterm of ten years. Japan will respect andobserve the Korean tariff and trading regula-tions existing before the 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
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