New Japanese Vice-Consul Kabachi Abe and His Wife

ROBS HUMPHRIES OF WARWHOOP IN ONE WALLOP

Kahachi Abe, New Japanese Vice-Consul, Gives Figures That Knock Oriental Invasion Into Smithereens.

SAD BLOW DEALT TO PROPHET OF DISASTER

Foreign Office Will Issue No Passports for America Except to Laborers Who Go Home for Visit.

There is trouble ahead for Senatorial Jack Falstaff John E. Humphries. As a prophet, he is doomed to failure, and it is all because there has been a change in the Japanese imperial consulate within the last two days, and the new acting consul, being a newcomer from San Francisco, did not know what he was getting into when he read the corpulent candidate's horrible forecast of an impending Oriental invasion.

Former Vice-Consul Kiudire Hayashi left for Japan yesterday, bound straight for Tokyo. His associates in the consulate say he took no interest in the declarations of the candidate, and that the Tokyo office was not recalling him to learn at first hand of Falstaff's utterances. In fact, Mr. Hayashi had not bothered to read the prophecies, for he had lived in Seattle several months, and knew all about John E.

Kahachi Abe, however, was not so fortunate, and he found himself confronted with the startling declaration that 49,782,952 Japanese and Formosan residents would invade the United States in case the corpulent candidate did not go to the Senate. He is not to be blamed for reading the article, for he had just come to Seattle, and his associates did not think to put him wise.

Let Go Boomerang.

The indescribable horror which Falstaff pictured met his eye. He knew better; he had facts, gathered by him in San Francisco, proving that the imperial office would not issue passports to Japanese laborers of any class who wished to come to this country. He searched through his cabinet and produced data which he has thrown to the corpulent one as a sort of Japanese boomerang.

The Japanese foreign office will not issue passports to any resident of that country wishing to come to America except those who have already been here and have gone home on a visit. Statistics covering each month haven't been carefully compiled by him, showing not only that the number of laborers coming to America are less than half a hundred each month, but that the number returning home to stay far outbalances it.

"No laborers," he declared, "are allowed by the government to come to this country under any circumstances, with the exception of those who are already in America and who go home for a visit.

As a result, during the month of March of this year, a total of forty-six laborers were issued passports to the United States against 247 who returned to Japan to remain there. Out of the forty-six, twenty-six were women and twenty men. Passports were also issued to 119 non-laborers during the month, sixty-three of whom were women and fifty-six men. This number included students, government officials, and special envoys.

At the United States immigration office in this city it was said this morning that no Japanese would be allowed to enter the United States without these official passports, and Vice-consul Abe declared that the government had announced its intention of refusing passports to laborers of any class except those who had visited at home and were returning to this country.

There is lamentation in the Falstaff camp. It is a sad blow to the prophet who had forecasted an Oriental invasion. Acting-consul Abe has quashed his hopes, and John E. Humphries is without a war cry.