Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1916 — J. P. MORGAN SAILS ON MYSTERIOUS MISSION [ARTICLE]

J. P. MORGAN SAILS ON MYSTERIOUS MISSION

Financier On Way, [to England and Wall, Street Hears Rumor of New Loan. York, I?eV. 2. —J. P. Morgan sailed tonight for England aboard the steamship Rotterdam. He was accompanied by Benjamin Strong, governor of the New York federal'reserve bank. Announcement that the two men* were to visit London caused much surprise and interest in financial circles. This will be Mr. Morgan’s second trip to England since the war began. The first was followed by the announcement that J. P. Morgan & Co. had been appointed commercial agents of the British government in this country. Soon afterward the firm was selected to act in a similar capacity for the French government. In their capacity as commercial agents to the two governments, Morgan & Co. have purchased or supervised the purchase of supplies costing hundreds of millions of dollars. "Intimations that Mr. Morgan’s coming trip might not be unrelated to another external loan by the allies met with denial from one of his business associates.-