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The journalist who gave the beginning of World War II dies
Clare Hollingworth has died at age 105. The British war correspondent was the first to report the Nazi invasion of Poland




Clare Hollingworth, the British war correspondent who gave the scoop on the Nazi invasion of Poland that led to the outbreak of World War II, died in Hong Kong at age 105, the former colony's Foreign Correspondents Club announced.

Hollingsworth, who had turned 105 on October 10, broke the news that World War II had begun on the pages of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph in 1939 when he was 27.

It defined the journalistic career of Hollingsworth, who worked as a correspondent abroad for over half a century, covering conflicts in Europe, North Africa and Asia.

Part of his experiences in areas of conflict were collected in five books that tell stories ranging from the beginning of World War II to the relationship of the Arab world with the West or the conflicts of Chinese leader Mao Zedong with his opponents.

According to a biography of the journalist recently published by her nephew Patrick Garrett, the start of World War II surprised Hollingworth in Poland, where he was organizing the evacuation of more than 3,500 political and Jewish refugees to the United Kingdom, Earned him the nickname of the Scarlet Pimpernel among the British press.

A week after she was hired as a war correspondent for the Telegraph, she moved to the Polish-German border in Katowice, where in the early hours of September 1, 1939 the sound of tanks passing under her window woke the journalist, who Rushed to call the editors and the British and Polish Foreign Offices to give the scoop.

His vocation for the coverage of war conflicts led Hollingworth to start working for Time magazine after British General Bernard Law Montgomery banned the presence of British female correspondents on the front in Egypt during the war in North Africa in 1942 .

Born in 1911 on a farm in Leicester, central England, Hollingworth resided in Hong Kong for the last four decades after working in Beijing as a correspondent during the 1970