“SCARLET PIMPERNEL"
BRITISH WOMAN’S ROLE. HELPED THOUSANDS TO ESCAPE. (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) BUCHAREST,-September 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 the woman Scarlet Pimpernel, for helping 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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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 304, 1 October 1940, Page 5
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