MISS MALECKA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1365, 16 February 1912, Page 5

MISS MALECKA.

TRIAL BEGINS AT WARSAW,

By Telecranh-Vress Asßociallou-CoDyTlcht St. Petersburg, February H. Hiss Malecka's trial lias begun at "Warsaw in open Court, in deference to British representations. Owing to tho absence of wit nesses the trial will be continued until May.

About April last Miss .Malccka, a British subject, and a pianist, well known in London, was arrested in Warsaw by order of the secret police. No specific charge was made against her, but she has since remained incarcerated in tho Alexander Citadel. She had been living in Poland for some months before her arrest, and had occupied herself by giving music lessons. There has been a considerable agitation in England over the ca.-e, as it has been contended that Miss Malecka is a British subject, and many appeals on her behalf luivo been made to the British Foreign Office. Tho ([iicstion of Miss Malecko's nationality (says the "Daily News") is simple. Her mother was an Englishwoman, and her father a Polish emigrant and a naturalised British subject. Hence, according to Ensrlish law, Miss Jfalecka is a British subject, and has (ho right to expect such help and protection as the British Government can afford her.

According t;i Russian law, Mr. Malecka remained a Russian subject in spite of naturalisation in England, an act in which the Russian Government refuses to acquiesce, except in rare instances. Hence the Russian authorities insist that Miss Malccka is a Russian subject.

Miss MalecUa has lived almost all her lifo in England. She is an orphan, and it is comparatively latoly that she learnt Ihe Polish language oat of reverence for her father's memory.