JAPANESE ASCENDENCY.
'A TRAVELLER'S IMPRESSIONS. Br Tel««ra»h—Frew AMoolatlon—CoprHelil Sydney) February 10. Mr. Wade, Leader of the Opposition, when in the East/waa impressed by the strong evidence that the people of Japan and China are beginning to feel their I>ower, and. demand a, share in the government of those countries. It is remarkable, he says, how Japan is gradually forcing her way into the possible monopoly, of trade in that part of the Pacific. Her mercantile fleet has increased enormously of late years. Japanese influence 'has severely undermined.Britain's the Cliina" trade,"and Japan is seriously competing with English commercial influence in Indian waters.; Only by persistent, • up-to-dato methods ..can Australia hope to increase or maintain her trade with tho East.
. Ono thing which forcibly strikes a stranger is that tho Japanese are unani■mous in, the conviction that their country is destined to occupy a still more important position' among the nations of the world. '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 7
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152JAPANESE ASCENDENCY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 7
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