COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
ORDERED TO LEAVE COUNTRY.
(Rec. 11 a.m.) BUCHAREST, Sept. 30. It is understood, that Claire Hollingworth, the correspondent of the Daily Express, lias been ordered to leave Rumania within eight days. She is known as the “Woman Scarlet Pimpernel” for helping thousands of Czechs to flee to Poland before the 1 outbreak of the war. She disguised refugees in peasant costumes and made them carry bundleson their backs and chickens under their arms. The Gestapo were continually searching for her, but she threw them off.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 260, 1 October 1940, Page 7
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87COURAGEOUS WOMAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 260, 1 October 1940, Page 7
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