Case Against Lawyer of Herr von Ossietzky Opens Berlin, Feb, 26.
A lawsuit began here yesterday before an alderman's court where Dr, Kurt Wannow is charged with having misappropriated by far the greater part of the sum of 165,849 Norwegian Crowns, about Rin. 108,- 000, being the amount of the Nobel peace prize rarded at the end of 1936 to Herr Karl von Os former publisher of the buehne."
Wannow had undertaken to receive the payment in Also and to invest the proceeds suitably in Germany, and had been authorized to do so by Herr von Ossietzky, Wan-now was to have received Rin. 20,-
000 for his services, The sum was ultimately transferred from Oslo to the Reichsbank in Berlin whereupon Wannow received Rin, 20000 as agreed, Wannow is alleged ultimately to have persuaded Herr von Ossietzky, who was very ill at that time, to give him full power of attorney to withdraw sums from the Reichsbank at Wannow's discretion. Wannow used this authority to make unsecured loans to private friends and to himself.
Finally the German secret police intervened but were only in time to save Rin, 16500 of the total sum. The case is proceeding—Trans-
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