Show aUN SOLDIERS HELP REGAIN LOST TRADE Germany Goes to Any Length to Hold What Trade Is Left By Dy United Press I PARIS Nov Noy 26 By To Mall Mail To re recapture recapture recapture re- re capture her los lost trade Germany Is prepared to go to any length One of the leading business men of Switzerland Switzerland Switzer Switzer- r rland land has been telling his friends in Paris an experience he has Just had bad and which should be a lesson to the allies Recently he needed certain machinery machin machin- ery and being a francophile wrote to French firms to place his order In each case the price demanded dt was v very ry high and the delay before delivery es estimated estimated es- es at three to six months While eS 1 he was still thinking over the various propositions a a. German commercial traveler called I 1 know you need certain machinery I at once My l firm is read ready to supply you you And he named terms three times less than the French firms had offered I When can I 1 have the machinery and asked the Swiss In a fortnight what's more I 1 am author authorized to tell you that two expert will willbe willbe willbe be specially released from service at atthe atthe atthe I the front so as to put up your ma ma- chines On the day arranged for the wor workmen work work- men arrived and set up the machines They told their Swiss client that they had come straight from the Belgian front AsI Asked ed if they were not tempted to remain In Switzerland and be out of J the war they replied that they had given their word that they would return le- le turn and that their families were were being held as hostages I |