Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1895.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1791, 30 November 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1895.

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It needs but a glance at the map to notice the peculiar geographical 'correspondence of Japan in Asia with-Groat-Britain it Europe. Both nations ore on dumps of islands off the shore of a great continent, each now is a strong power in its particular part of the world, and unless hampered and held in check by; the great/ European powers, there is no forecasting the possibilities of tho little nation may be the Asiatic England yet. . Within half a century the little people of almond eyes and curious china seem to have shaken off an intellectual slumber and raced to the extreme of up-to date civilisation. ' The advent of foreigners, the introduction of modern ideas of war, - politics, religion, the arts, science and commerce, have stimulated the people,,and effected the most notable overturning of tradition by a nation that history records. . What it took Anglo-Saxon races centuries to learn, Japan has acquired; in fifty years-®*, precocious' child tins, when once its brain began to b.e attracted. ■ The recent victory over China, its long time enemy, showed how thorough its national education has been. This triumph can hot fail to., be of most historical importance to Asia;- 'lt was a hard blowto the ultra-bonservatism of the Orientals, .and wifi no doubt, in at few years, lead to the.opening of' China to modern civilised methods Tho future of Japan as a great power seems for the present Very bright. Victory such as theirs- is intoxicating to True,. Pekin was not captiired, but the complete humiliation and subjectiotf u of * the ‘ yellow -Empire; can not fail to,arouse in the minus of Japanese statsemen the desire for further glory and rehown for their country. Dispatches say that the Jap-. I anese have ordered twenty more war- ‘ ships, and a -Sabi Francisco company’s agent has sailed to obtain the contracts for their building. The government seems to appreciate. the fact .that a good navy is indispensable to a power of first-rank, and ;who knows"but .that at EA3tb& ; ill-coi|ai®yK.‘iriay : be giving . a Europb¥h"fposrei , ;a::.'m'erry time of it Strange -things-havo' come- from the Eiist( v gfThis i^y^be^onA'.of;tbein.: .. ■ :-JI ..