Move Believed Designed to Beat Blockade Geneva, Dec. 27.
An advertisement from a firm in Berlin, offering to sell various German patents to powerful enterprises, appeared in several leading Swiss newspapers today.
Industrial and financial quarters here are wondering whether there may not be concealed behind this offer meeting the patented industrial products to neutral countries, Such products, it is stated, could then easily be exported as neutral Tt is also suggested that the Germans may thus hope to obtain in neutral countries certain raw materials necessary for the manufacture of these patented goods, as such raw materials are no longer available in Germany.—Reuter.
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