One week to the day after he had been arrested on a charge of allegedly putting a false interpretation upon news concerning police actions in a raid on the Jewish section of the city, Otto Schick, editor of the Berlin bureau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, was freed by the Nazi authorities.
His release was due chiefly to the informal intervention of Raymond Geist, American consul, who interceded in his behalf as soon as he was informed that Schick had been put under arrest. The Austrian Legation also intervened officially in behalf of Mr. Schick, who is an Austrian citizen.
Mr. Schick has reassumed his duties as head of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency service to newspapers within Germany and as editor of the Berlin Bulletin of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Mr. Schick was arrested last Wednesday by the Berlin secret police, who accused him of sending a story to the London office of the news service which might be interpreted unfavorably to the police. The telegram containing the story was confiscated.
The newspaperman’s week of incarceration was spent at the central police headquarters in the Alexan-derstrasse.
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