Show KAISER AFTER COPPER reuters renters agent at zurich states that agents are conducting a diligent and systematic hunt for copper throughout switzerland according to the london financial times they are penetrating the mountains to the remotest valleys and persuading the peasants to part with this precious metal taking advantage of the ignorance of these country people they tell housewives that their copper utensils are burned out and off offer er to give them new pots and kettles in exchange which of course prove to be of greatly inferior metal the business is enormously or profitable since the agents pay only ad to ad a pound for copper which thy they sell to germany for ten times as much |