Veteran British journalist, Clare Hollingworth,
who broke the news of the Nazi invasion of Poland that marked the
beginning of World War II, died in Hong Kong yesterday Jan. 10th at the age of 105.
Hollingworth’s death was announced in a statement released by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong.
In
August 1939, at the age of 27, late Hollingworth who was a rookie
reporter with Britain’s Daily Telegraph, traveled alone to the German
border and witnessed the first column of Nazi tanks mobilising to invade
Poland.
August 1939, at the age of 27, late Hollingworth who was a rookie
reporter with Britain’s Daily Telegraph, traveled alone to the German
border and witnessed the first column of Nazi tanks mobilising to invade
Poland.
Three days later she was the first journalist to break the news that launched her career.
Clare
Hollingworth having narrowly escaped death severally spent much of her
career on the front lines of major conflicts including in the Middle
East, North Africa and Vietnam while working for British newspapers.
Hollingworth having narrowly escaped death severally spent much of her
career on the front lines of major conflicts including in the Middle
East, North Africa and Vietnam while working for British newspapers.
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