LOVE CAN FIND THE WAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26352, 6 January 1947, Page 5

LOVE CAN FIND THE WAY

Soldier Takes Hard Road Home (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 4. A 25-year-old soldier, Walter Edwards, of Norwich, brought the woman he loved from Italy to England the hard way. Edwards in a statement read at the Norwich Police Court, where the woman, Ilde Nuccia Tenca, aged 34, was charged with illegally entering Britain and, Edwards with aiding her, said they walked from Italy through waist-deep snow across the Alps, then through France to Paris, using railway tunnels to avoid the gendarmes. A French fisherman brought them in his boat to within three miles of the English coast. He charged them £6O and an additional £6 for the use of the rowitag boat in which they landed in England. They then hiked to Norwich, where, the police found them in a hut on New Year’s Eve. Edwards said that while serving in Italy he received news that his wife was misbehaving herself. There were other family worries, and he deserted at the eiyl of April, 1946. The money Tenca received from the sale of her shop in Milan took them by train to the Alps. They crossed the Little St. Bernard Pass on foot with the aid of an Italian guide, and walked most of the way to Paris. The Bench decided to let Tenca stay in England pending the decision of the immigration authorities. Edwards was bound over to await a military escort. It was stated in court that the army is handling Edwards’s divorce proceedings.