ANGLO-RUSSIAN ROMANCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15159, 5 March 1920, Page 9

ANGLO-RUSSIAN ROMANCE.

REVAL, Nov. 27.—There is a; romance bound up with the homecoming of'■ • the British Tank Corps which fought with j General Yudenitch's army. . Lieutenant j "Tug" Wilson, the tank engineer oi the ' corps, is _takihg . home a)' bride. J^He is the Baroness Erica Oelsen,' a pretty'brunette, of nineteen, wearing the uniform of a :Red pross nurse, and,.,her sister is Btme. Rodzianko, wife of the geneyal commanding the White Russians i& J the field. Lieutenant Wilson g^ot a glimpse, of the baroness when hG aiVived in Narva in August, but it was only on his return from.. th^e : front about a., fortnight ago that the young people met. It was t a case of love at first sight, and a. week. after their meeting when Narva was menaced by the Bolsheviks, they became engaged within sound of the guns, and were quietly married in Reval on Sunday at the Nicolai Church. j The last two years have."been .eventful j ones for the "baroness, she' "was. the chaie- < laine of a - eea.Utlifui <: pifo^'eit^ and" extend' give lands in LivOnia tSfntiK January, .1918,, when she was taken* pSi'soher by the "801-j sheviks in Riga and dispossessed of her estates.. After five moiiths.Jnvprisbijl 1 she ' effected^ her escape,! and, hiding her identity, succeeded ■: in getting, tne. Bolsheviks to issue her: 'a passport iri her assumed; name. She tried ,to .'And her _rela- j ,tives,-and^ crossing. tlirough tfee, Bolshevik • lines,' walked'2oo,-miles to Mitau;, but I when the,, Bolsheviks ;■ were driven • from Riga, shortly atftevV slie, returned there, and eventually reached Narva, taking refuge with-'-her'. .sister^' Mine". Rodzianko. Lieutenant ' Wilson remained behind in [Royal to 'gojbvniarr'jbil,i.w}ißi^ his comrades went homo, but'within a few days h,e will be on his way home with "his..'bride to spend the' .honeymoon iii his native Scotland. - 'y.'-■'.■ •'...■■■• *'■