The celebrated British war correspondent Clare Hollingworth died Tuesday in Hong Kong at 105. The news reached me via her obituary in the Daily Telegraph, which a friend emailed. It was fitting that the Telegraph published one of the first reports of her death, as the newspaper also published Hollingworth’s most famous article and arguably the biggest scoop of the 20th century: the outbreak of World War II. In late August 1939, Hollingworth was a 27-years-old cub reporter for the Telegraph in Poland. After talking a...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 12, 2017 00:07 UTC