CASE OF MISS MALECKA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 5

CASE OF MISS MALECKA.

PARDONED BY THE TSAR. . By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. Juno 10, 10.30 p;m.) London, Juno 10. The "Daily Chronicle" states that tho Tsar has pardoned Miss .Malecka, the alleged British subject, who was recently sentenced to four years' penal servitude for conspiring against the Russian Government in Poland.

DISPUTED NATIONALITY. 'About April, 1911, Miss Malecka, a pianist well known in London, was arrested in Warsaw by order of the secret police. No specific charge was made against her, but sho remained incarcerated in. tho Alexander Citadel for' nearly a yew before being tried. There lros been a considerable agitation ill England over tho case, as it has been contended that Miss Malecka is a British subject, and many appeals on her behalf have been made to the British Foreign Office. The question of Miss Malecka/s nationality (says tho "Daily News") is simple. Her mother was an Englishwoman, and her father a Polish emigrant and a naturalised British subject. Hence, according to English law. Miss Malecka is o. British subject, and has the right to expect such help and protection as tho British Government can afford her.

According to Russian law, Mr. Malecka remained a Russian subject in spito of naturalisation in England, en act in which the Russian Government refuses to acquiesce, except in rare instance.-'. Hence the Russian authorities insist that Miss Malecka is a Russian subject.