Kobe was a shambles; the slaughter of the cotton operatives by machine-guns became classic as the most terrific execution ever achieved by modern war machines.

Most savage of all was the Japanese Oligarchy that arose.

Japan dominated the East, and took to herself the whole Asiatic portion of the world-market, with the exception of India.
England managed to crush her own proletarian revolution and to hold on to India, though she was brought to the verge of exhaustion.

Also, she was compelled to let her great colonies slip away from her.

So it was that the socialists succeeded in making Australia and New Zealand into cooperative commonwealths.