America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 19, 28 December 1915, Page 5

America.

FORDS FEACE MISSION. i , ! ' [United Press Association.] t 1 London, December 26. , The Exchange Telegrtlph’s Copenhagen correspondent reports that Mr Henry Ford has sailed for America aboard the Bergensfjord, realising that it was impossible to make headway. Before leaving he gave a cheque for a million kroner to finance the expedition, under charge of a committee of [five. The party is continually at loggerheads. Miss Bosiki SchwimmCr persuaded Ford that the Scandinavian Govevnmnet was ready to assist, hut when Ford found all the official dqors were closed he broke ffowh. ,

According to the Weekly Despatch’s Stockholm corresj&Hdent, Ford’s expedition was a. Cerrdan plot, of which Ford whs' the tictim* fjhe plan was hatched two months (ago in Berlin. Schwimmer was designated to secure a rich American to finance the trip, and it was hoped that Sweden would officially receive the mission. Then Mr Bryan was to be brought to meet the King, and finally Herr von Bethmann Hollweg was to invite Mr “Bryan on a mission to Berlin. Mr Ford returns disillusioned.

ANOTHER ANCONA CASE. (Received 1 p.m.) Washington, December 27. The State Department regard the sinking of the Yasaka Mam as gravely compromising as the Ancona case.