sion of the Treaty of August 22, 1910, whereby the then Emperor of Korea pur- ported to cede "completely and permanently to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan all rights of sovereignty over the whole of Korea ", with her then population of more than Fifteen Million Koreans.
THE KOREAN PROTEST.
5. Against this extinction of Korean sovereignty and the incorpo- ration of their Country as a province of Japan, the Korean People and Nation have strenuously protested and do still protest.
6. This protest is renewed and is strengthened daily owing to the methods applied by Japan in the administration of Korea. In ruthlessness and efficiency these methods exceed those practised by Prussia in her Eastern Provinces, in Schleswig-Holstein, in Alsace-Lorraine *.
Not only in name but in reality, Japan is determined to turn Korea into a Japanese province. And she is trying to do this by a pitiless attempt to extirpate the great roots of patriotism-love of the soil, language of the people and the history of the nation and also to "control" the two means which might render futile this orga- nised attempt to destroy Korean patriotism, i. e. education and wealth.
JAPANESE “CONTROL" OF KOREAN EDUCATION AND WEALTH.
7. Any and every department of modern education calculated, if pursued beyond a certain point, to encourage what Count Terauchi—the Japanese proconsul who annexed" Korea-calls "dangerous thoughts" is either forbiden or taught in an emasculated sense in the schools of Korea under Government control. And the Korean student is absolutely prohibited from going to Europe or the United States to seek a modern education even at his or her expense.
8. Nearly every Wealthy Korean is obliged to have a Japanese overseer at his house, controlling his properties and finances.
And Koreans with deposits in the Banks-which are all Japanese institutions -cannot withdraw large amounts at one time without disclosing to the Banks the purpose or purposes for which the money is to be used.
JAPAN AND CHRISTIANITY.
9. Every effort is made by the Japanese Authorities—particularly through their police agents to discourage and obstruct Christian missionary work in Korea which is envisaged as opposed to vital Japanese interests in the Peninsula.
Is not the gravest indictment of Japan's work is Korea to be read in the fact that Christianity is seriously regarded as a force hostile to the success of the Japanese system of Government in the Country?
KOREA FOR THE JAPANESE.
10. The Japanese Authorities claim that " reforms" have been introduced into Korea. But it is well to remember that most of these reforms, valuable as they are, may be found in a well-regulated penal colony ("The Korean Conspiracy Case : New York) and all of them have been effected or introduced at the expense
"A rigid spy system is inaugurated (in Korea). Everyone must be registered and is given a number, which is known to the police. Every time he leaves his village or town he must register at the police station and state fully the business he intends to transact and his destination. The policeman phones to this place and if his actions are in any way at variance with his report he is liable to arrest and mistreatment. A strict classification is kept on the basis of a man's education, influence, position, etc. As soon as a man begins to show ability or qualities of leadership he is put in class ** a **, detectives are set on his trail, and from thenceforth he becomes a marked man, hounded wherever he goes. Even children are watched or bribed for information. If a man escapes the country his number is traced, his family or relatives arrested and perchance tortured until they reveal his whereabouts. A man is likely to disappear any day and perhaps not be heard of again. It is a very efficient Prussianism which thus aims to crush the spirir of a people.
This policy is carried out in the educational system by forbidding the teaching of Korean history or geography... by excluding all European history or literature..... by forbidding any Korean student to go abroad for an education; in fact, by forbidding them to leave the country............ by forbidding them to entertain or express Korean ideas or aspirations. One student was put in jail for three months and fined three hundred dollars because he was caught singing the Korean national anthem." From a paper recently published in the United States by J. E. Moore, an American born in Korea.
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of the Korean taxpayer in the interest and for the benefit of the Japanese Settler for whom the Japanese Authorities are bent on making Korea an attractive field of colonisation.
-The Japanese rules and administers Korea in the spirit and by the methods of a Master-Nation or, more accurately, a Profiteer-Nation. Except in the sense that cattle or slaves must be taken care of if they are to be of any value to their owners, the welfare of the Korean People is not an aim of government with Japan. JAPAN AGAINST THE WORLD.
12. In addition to these reasons connected directly with the fate of the Korean People, the vital interests of the world-especially the Asiatic interests of France and the Asiatic and Pacific interests of Great Britain and the United States -demand the dis-annexation of Korea and the liberation of her People from Japan.
13. In trade and commerce, Japan is gradually eliminating the Western trader and merchant in Korea and transferring to the exclusive bands of her own people tradal interests which have had their origin in the series of treaties of peace and commerce concluded between Korea and the foreign Powers.
In this elimination of Western competition, Japan continues true to that instinct for exclusion which, in the past, found expression in her rigidly guarded isolation and which, to-day, expresses itself in the menacing attempt to Exclude Western Influence in Far Asia through the application of a debased Monroe Doctrine for the Far East.
JAPAN'S CONTINENTAL POLICY.
14. It is, however, in the far-reaching political aims of Japan -realisable eventually through her continued annexation of Korea-that France as well as Great Britain and America must be vitally interested.
The danger to the non-Japanese world, including specially the three Latin and Anglo-Saxon Powers, lies in Japan's unfettered prosecution of her Conti- nental Policy,
This policy aims, first, at the seizure of the hegemony of Asia through the Domination and Control of the Man-Power and Natural Resources of China -possible by the Japanese possession of the continental point d'appui of Korea—- and, next, at the Mastery of the Pacific as the Sole Means of Securing Unrestricted Entrance for the Japanese Immigrant into Australasia and the United States.
THE POLICY IN OPERATION.
15.-Japan's Continental Policy has already found expression-
(a) in two successful wars which have made her the greatest military power in Asia in much the same way that Prussia's two wars made her the greatest military power in Europe;
(b) in the annexation of Korea;
(c) in the gradual substitution of Japanese for Chinese authority in South Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongolia;
(d) in the attempt now being made to secure from the Peace Conference the succession of Japan to German holdings and privileges in the Chinese province of Shantung, including Kiaochow;
(e) in the growing subjection of China, with her incalculable man-power and resources, to Japanese domination by and through the same set of methods which made the annexation of Korea a "political necessity": and
(in the Japanese possession of the "South Sea Islands north of the Equator" which brings Japan nearly two thousand miles closer to Australia and gives the Japanese Navy a base which dominates, practically, the entire land-areas of the Pacific.
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