THE MALECKA CASE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 47, 20 February 1912, Page 3

THE MALECKA CASE.

RRESTED RY POLITICAL POLICE ; NO SPECIFIC CHARGE.

Early in 1011 Miss Malocka, n British subject, and a pianist wellknown in London, was arrested in Warsaw by order of the secret police. •No specific charge has been made against her, but it is alleged that she bad associated herself with revolutionists. . She had been living in Poland ■or some months before her arrest, ;ml had occupied herself by giving music lessons. The police raided her lodging, searched her boxes, seized icr letters and papers, and conveyed her to. the Citadel. I iie question was raised in Parliament early in June by Mr Noel Buxnn, who was informed by Mr McKinnon Wood that if Miss Malocka ‘‘is proved to bo a British subject the fonsul will lie allowed to visit her n ivately ; he will be allowed to visit her privately if she' is proved to be a. [Russian sub,;*ct. ’ Subsequently, in deference to ■Stilish .representations, the Russian Government decided to grant Miss Maleeka the right of trial, otherwise she ■could probably have been sent to Siberia- without trial.Asji matter of fact, the question :J -Miss Malocka’s nationality is sim!»lo. Her mother was an Englishwoman and her father a Polish -emigrant ami a naturalised British sv.'biect. Hence, according to English law, -diss Malocka is a British subject, and nas the right to expect such help and pi election as the British Covcrnmont can afford her. .According to Russian law, Mr Malocka remained a Russian subject, in -'.pile of naturalisation in England, an act which the Russian Government revises to acquiesce in except in rare instances. Hence the Russian authArifirs assume that -Hiss Malocka is a Russian subject. I hey arc apparently not aware that the marriage of her iia.rents was according to Russian law "ml! and void. The ceremony was per'armed in an Anglican Church, ~although .Mr Malocka was a Roman Catholic. Russian law requires that Russian Catholic be .married by a Catholic priest. Miss Malocka, therefore, according to Russian, law. lakes her im,liter’s nationality, and is a British subject. Miss Malocka has lived almost all her life- in England. She is an orplan, and it is comparatively lately that she learnt tin* Polish language out of reverence for her father’s memory.