JAPAN'S OPPORTUNITY.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

JAPAN'S OPPORTUNITY.

GREAT SHIPPING BOOM.

(Australian and N.Z- Cable Association)

(Received' May 9,- ; 7,.|10 -p.m.) Tokio, May 9

Japan, is rapidly becoming, a fir&t-clc6Ss-.s.h;ppmg:Power. "She added 140,----000 tons in .1916, and a further 60,000 tons e'mce the new year. The merchant Qe?l tig-r numbers 11,372 ships, oi! ■vvhidi tliero are 2185 steamers^ totalling; over 2,333,000 tons. Feverish activity, prevails at the shipyards, which are not even content with monopolising the commerce of the Pacific.