Journalist famed for World War II scoop turns 100
Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the story that the Second World War had started, turned 100 in Hong Kong yesterday as a memoir of her is near completion.
The centenarian was joined by about 150 journalists and friends at a party at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC), where she has been a regular in the past three decades since moving to the city in 1981.
"Yes, I am happy but I don't want any sensation," the frail bespectacled woman said when asked how she felt about turning 100.
"I hope I behave," she joked, as congratulatory messages from all over the world poured in, including from veteran BBC correspondent John Simpson, who described her as "magnificent".
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