UNHAPPY WAR UNION
WIFE FLIES HOME WITH DAUGHTER
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, November 4. With only. 30s and : a few pence in her purse, Mrs Irene Saunders, a young Australian, war bride, arrived in Auckland by air with her 16 months old daughter Christine, en route to her home town, Brisbane. Mrs Saunders was married to an American Amy Air Force sergeant in Brisbane. After their reunion in America she was granted a divorce on the grounds , of her husband’s infidelity, but the husband, anxious to gain the custody of the child, obtained a court: order forbidding her and the ihild to leave Alton, Illinois, pending further appeals. - Ignoring the order, Mrs < Saunders travelled to San Francisco, but was taken into custody there until released on the petition of the Australian ViceConsul. ’
Referring to subsequent litigation, Mrs Saunders said to-day: “ I heard I’d won last Tuesday evening, collected Christine, and was on the plane, the same night before my husband’s lawyers could have more papers served on me. The American people were wonderful, their sympathies being wholeheartedly with me.” Stating that she was telephoning her father in Brisbane for money, she said shortage of cash was the least of her worries. . ‘ " , . ! _■
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Evening Star, Issue 25940, 4 November 1946, Page 6
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199UNHAPPY WAR UNION Evening Star, Issue 25940, 4 November 1946, Page 6
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