UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1915, Page 6

UNITED STATES.

YANKEE PACIFICISTS' INTERFERENCE. New York, Nov. 30. Henry Ford, of the Ford Motor Company, and other pacificists are organising a peace mission on a large scale. They have chartered the steamer Oscar II (a Danish vessel of 10,000 tons), which they are refitting luxuriously. She will sail on December 4. A manifesto lias been issued declaring: ''The time has come to cease firing. \\"c are going to try to get the boys out of the trenches. We shall be back home by Christmas Day." Mr. Ford has not disclosed his plans with regard to the proposal to call a neutral conference. Mr. Edison was the lirst to accept an invitation to join the mission, and was followed by Miss .lane Adams and John W'anamaker. When Mr. Ford gets to sea he will send out wireless messages in continuation of the campaign inaugurated by women' organisations, who are importuning the President and flood him with telegraphic requests to intervene. Mr. Ford declares his willingness to sacrifice every penny he has to promote, peace. He is convinced that 200 pacificists can be conveyed to and from Europe at £IOOO a head. Received Nov. 27, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Nov. 20. President Wilson refused to identify himself with the big peace movement. It is understood that German societies are the active cause of it.