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 GENERAL HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES, PACIFIC PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE

10 Sept 1945 PRESS RELEASE

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES, PACIFIC PROCLAMATION NO. 2 CRIMES AND  OFFENCES

TO THE PEOPLE OF KOREA:

In order to make provision for the security of the armed forces under my command and for the maintenance of public peace, order and safety in the occupied area, as Commander-in-Chief, United States Army Forces, Pacific, I do hereby proclaim as follows:

ANY PERSON WHO:

Violates the provisions of the Instrument of Surrender, or any proclamation, order, or directive given under the authority of the Commander-in-Chief, United States Army Forces, Pacific, or does any act to the prejudice of good order or the life, safety, or security of the persons or property of the United States or its Allies, or does any act calculated to disturb public peace and order, or prevent the administration of justice, or willfully does any act hostile to the Allied Forces, shall, upon conviction by a Military Occupation Court, suffer death or such other punishment as the Court may determine.

Given under my hand at Yokohama This Seventh day of September 1945

DOUGLAS MacARTHUR General of the Army of the United States Commander-in-Chief, United States Army Forces, Pac.