ORDERED TO LEAVE
BRITISH WOMAN IN RUMANIA DAILY EXPRESS CORRESPONDENT BUCHAREST, Sept. 30. It is understood that Miss Claire Hollingworth, correspondent of the Daily Express, has been ordered to leave Rumania within eight days. She is known as a feminine “ Scarlet Pimpernel ” for helping thousands of Czechs to flee to Poland before the outbreak of war. She disguised the refugees in peasant costumes and made them, carry bundles on their backs and chickens under their arms. The Gestapo was continually searching for her. but she threw them off.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 11
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88ORDERED TO LEAVE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 11
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