TO LEAVE RUMANIA
WOMAN WHO AIDED CZECHS
(Received October l, l p.m.)
BUCHAREST, ■ September 30
It is understood thjat Claire Hollingworth, correspondent of the "Daily Express," has been / ordered to leave Rumania within eight days. She is known as the "Scavlet Pimpernel" for ljolping thousand^ of Czechs to flee to Poland before ,the outbreak of the war. She disguised refugees in peasant costumes.; and made them carry bundles on theij; backs and chickens under their arms. The Gestapo was continually searching for her but she threw them oij.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 80, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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88TO LEAVE RUMANIA Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 80, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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