“SCARLET PIMPERNEL”
NAME EARNED BY BRITISH WOMAN 'JOURNALIST. NOW EXPELLED FROIvI RUMANIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) BUCHAREST, September 30. It is understood' that Miss Claire Hollingworth, correspondent to the “Daily Express” has been ordered to leave Rumania within eight days. She is known as the woman Scarlet Pimpernel because she helped thousands of Czechs to flee to Poland before the "outbreak of war. She disguised 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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98“SCARLET PIMPERNEL” Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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