The Washburn leader., 1915-12-17
Ford's Peace Ship
Reached Norway
Berlin Advises Them to- Stay
Quietly at Hbme and Stop
; Food Exports
FORD AUTO FOR SKIPPER
Documents Not Shown Caused q
Slight Rumpus on Board :.
Ship of Peace
FORD AUTO FOR SKIPPER

Christiania, Norway, Dec. IL.
No arrangements fer the Off
cial reception of Henry Ford's
expedition are being made here.
American Minister Schmedeman
has received no communication
from the expedition, nor has
any other person of prominence
except the president of the
Student s association, who had
telegram from Ford explaining
his program and announcing that
he proposes to remain in Christ
iania two days and afterward
to visit Stockholm, Copenhagen
and the Hauge.
The Student S association re-
piled that the party would be
afforded an opportunity of
meeting the association official
ly. The expedition is regarded
here as being without any i'm
portancc or authority and merely
a piece Of farciaal bluff.
" sr X
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung,
referring to Henry Ford, in the
number just received here says:
1.-The best thing Americans
can do would be to stay quietly
at home and concentrate their
energies on the far nobler task
of stopping the provisioning OF
the entente powers with war
material.
sThis would be "a most ef-
fcctive means Of furthering the
cause of peace. Transatlantic
pleasure trips can be productive
of nothing but the ridiculc that
kills.
The Rev. Charles +. Aked OF
San Francisco and several others
who entertain doubts as to the
success OF the peace plan insist
on being permitted to examine
the documents Nine. Roziska
lSdhwimmer asserted she had IN
her possession providing that
certain belligerants on both sides
are not opposed no peace nego-
tiations and that all neutrals
favor the peace conference.
Mime. Schwimmer has refused
to- produce the documents on
the grounds that they are con-
iidtntial.
The Hague, via London, Dec.
13.-Neither encouragement, re-
cognition nor support in any
shape or form will be offered to
the Ford peace party by the
the Netherlands government &C.
cording to information from Off
cial sources given to corre-
spnndent of the Associated Press.
Government Officials, it was
indicated, naturally noted the
party's departure and also re-
reived "a notification thereof from
the leader, ubut no reply was
forwarded.
No opposition will, however, be
placed in the way Of the partys
landing in Holland, but should
the activities of it's members be-
come embarrassing, they will
in all probability, be request Il
to transfer their headquarters
to other than Dutch territory.
Private pacifists of whom there
are many in this country probab-
|ly will welcome the Ford part
as an addition to their ranks.
The impression prevails that
the gene raj public and the pre- )
are in clined to regard the Ford
party without the slightest In
terest, as the opinion is prevs'-
lent here that peace will not be
achieved by the efforts Of. paci-
fists, but as a result Of hard
fought battles in which one an
tagonist succumbs.
Henry Ford has notified his
Copenhagen agent to prepare .
car for presentation to Capt.
Wilhelm Hempel Of the Oscar
IT,, the same man, incidentally
who brought DR.. Cock to Aanerl r
ca.
The entire body Of peace dele
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