Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . count Sone, Deputy Resident-(ieneral. In October of the same \ear Prince Ito was assassinated by aKorean in the railway station of Harbin C&M^) on his visit there. Hisloss was mourned by Koreans as deeply as by Ja])anese, for he loved was the cause of all this. Viscount Sone resigned his post in May, 1910, on account of ill-health,and was succeeded bj- General Count Terauchi. The general arrived athis post in the following July, and seeing that nothing short of immediateannexation could save the situation, decided to act at once. About th
Pictorial Chosen and Manchuria . count Sone, Deputy Resident-(ieneral. In October of the same \ear Prince Ito was assassinated by aKorean in the railway station of Harbin C&M^) on his visit there. Hisloss was mourned by Koreans as deeply as by Ja])anese, for he loved was the cause of all this. Viscount Sone resigned his post in May, 1910, on account of ill-health,and was succeeded bj- General Count Terauchi. The general arrived athis post in the following July, and seeing that nothing short of immediateannexation could save the situation, decided to act at once. About themiddle of August a final decision was arrived at in the negotiations l^etweenhim and the Korean Government; on the 22nd the treaty for annexation wassigned, and on the 29th it was published. As a result of the annexation of Korea the ancient name of the country. Cho-sen (j|3)S|), was revived, which name had been in general use by the people forfive centuries until it was changed to Taihan (::^f$) in 1897. The honours and 25. privileges enjoyed by jjrinecs ofthe blood in Japan were accordedto the former emperor and theother members of the imjjcrialfamily of Korea. Abolishing theJapanese Residency-(ieneral andthe Korean Government, theCiovernment-General of Chosenwas estalilished in their , after this annexation, the 39. Prince Ito (^^fi|^&), FirsliJResident-General (1905-1909)- lawsand administration hithertoderived from two sources wereunified and executed directly bythe Governor-General. GeneralTerauehi was ap]5ointed the firstGovernor-General of Chosen, andMr. I. Yamagata, the son of thegreat Prince Yamagata, Adminis-trative Superintendent. (Continued on Page -7) 40. Viscount Sonc (§)Jl^J!fl-i-), SecondResident-General (I909-1910).
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