According to a story told 1 by Captain D. McGhie, R.E., who was a prisoner in Turkey from April, 1915, till the Armistice, the patriarchal conditions of ancient Asia Minor, and the clan or tribal structure of primitive racial organisation. seems to lurk behind the following incident: When the Turks were listing the prisoners, and asked the Captain his name, his reply was, “David McGhie.” But that did not suit them at all. They asked his father’s name, and were told. Thomas Scott McGhie.” So they wrote down, “David, son of Thomas Scott.” For “McGhie” they had not time whatever. “McGhie,” they concluded, was simply a clan name. That, continued the captain, would be their own view of their own Turkish nomenclature. They live in big families. The common label they regard as in no sense an identi'.fickition. An elephant will work well up to eight years of age; its best years, however, are between twelve and fortyfive. /
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3360, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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