MISS MALECKA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13685, 20 May 1912, Page 5

MISS MALECKA.

EXILE TO SIBERIA PROBABLE. Authorities Alleged to be Vindictive. Press Association,—Telegraph. —Fopyriglit Received Mav 20, 8.45 a.m. WARSAW, May 19. Miss Maleeka was alleged to bo associated with Philipowicz, a notorious Socialist, who used her for his correspondence. When captured he blurted the guard and walked into the street in an officer's coat. IDs audacious escape so annoyed the authorities that it is alleged tlicv are vindictive towards Miss Maleeka. Exile to Siberia automatically follows the sentence, and the only hope is in the Czar's cletneney. A LADY OF TWO NATIONALITIES, Since the arrest of Miss Maleeka by the Russian authorities last year on the charge of belonging to a revolutionary organisation, several questions have been asked in the Hritish Parliament bearing on the subject of her nationality. and the question of wliot steps, if auv. the British Government would take on her behalf. Miss Maleeka, as already explained, was horn in England, her father being a Russian, who became a Hritish subject. When the matter was first raised in August last Sir Edward Grey (Minister for Foreign Affairs) stated that Miss Maleoka’.s nationality was being investigated It was possible, he said, that M iss Malecka’s father had not lost his Russian nationality. The Government, ho said, could not Dress for her release before the charge had been investigated. Subsequently the Russian authority's informed the Hritish Government that they regarded Miss Maleeka as a Russian subject. The matter was again brought up in the House of Commons in November last. Sir Edward Grey then stated that the question of the nationality of Miss Maleeka had been carefully considered in consultation with the law officers of the Crown. The conclusion was that sho was undoubtedly a British subject in the view of the British law, and also a Russian subject under flu' Russian law. Consequently the claim that she should be treated as a British subject when within the Hussion Empire was not maintained. He could- not, therefore, take any steps officially on hor behalf,