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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Clare Hollingworth: Reporter who broke news of start of WWII dies

Journalist Clare Hollingworth, who broke the news that the Second World War had started, has died at the age of 105.

She was just three days into her first journalism job in August 1939 when she saw hundreds of German tanks preparing to roll into Poland.

The rookie reporter for the Daily Telegraph, who was 27 at the time, scooped the world with her story.

The Daily Telegraph's "scoop of the century", which ran without a byline, was headlined "1,000 tanks massed on Polish border. Ten divisions reported ready for swift strike".

She said the British embassy in Warsaw did not believe her story and she was forced to hold her telephone receiver out of her hotel window in Katowice so the diplomat could hear the German tanks for himself.

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