Could Not Speak Same Language But Married Anyway
Stowaway Wanda Petri, beautiful 17 year old Italian, began. a sign-language honeymoon a few v/eeks ago with a passenger she met on the ship in which she had hidden. Neither could speak the other’s language. With three men, Wanda stowed,away at Fiume in the Turkish ship Kars, saying they were escaping Communist persecution in Yugoslavia. , At Gibraltar on-its way to Eng'*land the Kars picked up a passenger 21 year old Einar' Daltveit, a Norwegian radio operator. " Within two days Einar had proposed by pointing at Wanda’s “marriage” finger and putting on an imaginary wedding ring. Wanda nodded “Yes.” But at Immingham, in the Humber, she was arrested as an alient without a passport. Einar arranged her release with the police and the Norwegian Consul. Then he found that he could not be married ashore without much formality. So Pastor Klitto-Back, a Danish pastor in Hull, persuaded a Danish trawler skipper to take all three beyond Spurn Head, and the three-mile limit. There Wanda and Einar were married.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 37, 12 September 1949, Page 3
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