AMERICANS BARRED WHERE JAPANESE MAY ENTER

Citizens of United States Cannot Get Hotel or Saloon Licenses in Vancouver, B.C. -- Case of Nipponese.

VANCOUVER, B.C., Thursday, June 22. -- The days of the American-born bartender and hotel man in British Columbia are numbered, but the Oriental will be permitted to hold his own working alongside British-born, thus forming a peculiar situation as brought out at the meeting of the license commission here last night.

A resolution had been passed making it impossible for Americans to obtain licenses here and a further resolution was all prepared aimed at Asiatic labor as well and ready to slide down the greased ways of the commission when Consul Abe of Japan, interfered.

Consul Abe pointed out first the fact that Japan was an ally of Great Britain and related Japan's part in the war. This did not seem to loosen up the feelings of the commission to any extent but as a coup de grace the Japanese consul rudely sprung a declaration of treaty rights upon the unsuspecting commission and the day was won for the Nipponese. It so happens therefore, that Japanese may work in British Columbia where Americans may not.