POLITICAL EFFECT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 September 1923, Page 7

POLITICAL EFFECT.

LONDON PAPER'S VIEWS.

! Received Sept. 7, 1.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 7. The Morning Post says: The political effect of the Japanese cataclysm Has up to the present failed to attract the public attention it deserves. It is recognised here privately that the calamity has had tiie~ effect of enormously modifying^ the whole internatior-^l situation, borne insist that Japan" has been reduced at a stroke to the rank of a second-class Power, owing to her terrible material losses and the economic setback which they entail. The opinion is expressed that despite the remarkable energy of heir people and the fact "that her fleet is intact, it will take Japan 20 years to, resume the position of a first-class Power which she. occupied a weak ago. It is suggested that one outcome of the entire modification of the situation in the Far East may be that Britain will find it unnecessary to push the completion of the proposed powerful naval tfase at Singapore.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.