Journalist famed for World War II scoop turns 100

‘If there is a war, and if the world wants, I would still like to cover it’:

HONG KONG: Veteran British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth, who broke the story that the Second World War had started, turned 100 in Hong Kong on Monday 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”.

AFP