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EDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 3049.
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GESTAPO PRISONER, HE AWAITED BLACK WATCH ON RHINE
A sandy-haired young Scot tankers throughout the war, rwjwith Zrozeti yater. Priority Job who cannot speak a word of learning the Bilglish he had for in the camp, just than you the any language (except Ger- during the years spant in building of additional gas cham
Gormáty.
bers so that "the, bodies' of the man and yet spent two years But David mimed the list"boat thousands of dead could be more in Buchenwald concentration back to: Britain that Augurt and easily disposed of. The SS man's rifle, camp for refusing to join the though he did hot know it at the reply was to unsling his
time was dobrned to spend two point it at David's stomach, German army is about to years in the horror of a Nazi con-looked like the end, but, before lose his job as Control Com- contration camp.
he could fro another 55. man, mission car driver in Dussel had refused several times to obey and thinking porhags
The blow. fell in 1943 after he realising the war, was nearly over that he dotf because he has a British an order to join the Wehrmacht, might need a friend, called across passport.
For two years ho had "gons to Don't shoot 1" and so saved
David's life.
Lonning out of his little grey Volkswagen taxi David Clunie,
·20 years old, proudly shows the tattered photograph of his father, Company-Sergeant - Major Jolin Ball Clunie of the Black Watch who married a Dusseldorf girl when he was working in Gerthany in 1012.
By ANTONY. TERRY
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ground and worked as a lorry
When the David Clunie kept the photo-driver,
Germans graph in his possession all the claimed him as a German, ba- time he was in the concentration cause he was born in German camp. Not even the threats of David showed the picture of his the 99 guards could get it off him. father, asserted firmly that
was British, but it was nò 1120. The Germana objected to the ple- tire because his father was shown The Germans said" By our low in his Black Watch uniform.
you are Gorman."
On the night Speaking in Rhineland tongue,
of January 6, David tells me his troubles star- 1943 the Gestapo called ni David'
the appeals ted when his parents left Dun-house, and, despite fermline to spend a holiday at his of his mother, tools bim sway. mother's home town, Dusseldorf, For weeks he moved from uns in the Ruhr in 1920. For it was prison to another,
and Anished while they were in Germany that your that he was born,
Five years later when his father died in Scotland, Mrs. Boll Clunie deelded w go back home to Ger- many and
children, took her
David aged five, ble elder brother John (born, luckily, in Dunferm- line) and his sister Jacobina,
back to the Ruhr with her.
Missed boat
R was not until the last days of August 1939 that David Clunie, because he had been born in Ger- rany, found he could not get out of the country before was broke but. His brother, born in Scot- land, escaped and sorved in the
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Beaten by SS Starved, beaten, and bullied by guarda David Clunie taught himself briddaying, and, being neither a Joy nor a #ypay, Was put in charge of a working party of Jews An gypsies on- gaged on housebuilding. During these two years he saw thousands of his workmates takon away to the gas chambers.
One bitter March morning in 1945 David protested to the SS guard that his half-frozen, star- ving gang could not make coment
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After the Americans liberated the camp a few weeks later David returned to his frothe's home in Dusseldorf and not a job as a driver for the Control Commie- ston. He also got his, British Pasaport
Brother John Clunie had mean- while got a job in Rhodesia and wrote to David telling him to get on a ship and come out to foln him. But lucic was agalast David again. He tried to get the Control Commission to pay him his wages in pounds instead of German marks, so that he could save his fare. What he found out that Britishers are not allowed to be employed on the German staff at all. He didn't get his wages in pounds and he nearly lost his job
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Now married Now David is married and hos a non aged two.
Next to his father's photo, David Clunie is proudest of the fact that Claud John Clunie was un Princess Elizabeth's born
Are centred wedding day.
to
David's hopes now on making enough money in part- time work as a bricklayer to en- able him to pay his fore Rhodesin. He works 18 hours
thinks some days, and
he will succoed.
If he does, ho is taking his wife and son to a place whore ho will no longer be living between two worlds.
Wartime tricks revived
Prague. December 20. Tricks they used to foil the Nazie are Now being resur-l rected by some Czechs to beat their Communist ruters.
Com-
During the height of the arrest round-ups staged by the munist-controlled police, it was surprising to learn how packed the hospitals and cimics were.
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They couldn't slip a sick mon off to the labour camps or urani-
could mines,
they? couldn't they?
Those hiding out in this
Way businesssmen and were mostly other propertied elements-who were the main targets of tho round-ups.
And, be in the days when they feared the Nazi Gestapo, many men were winter underwear out of season. Some went to bed fully clothed, plained:
One
man
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À German chemical worker, Paul Mutler, 09, and his daughter. Aga; '18, "put out from Falmouth, Davon, in a bid to cross the Atlantio In their 18-foot (5 metres) converted row. boat, Berlin. They hope reach South America, there to begin a new life in "peace and security." Despite the advice of hardened soomen atong England's Bouth Coast, the Multern started their voyage In the teath of a gale. Stanley Smith, who crossed the Atlantio this wum- ner in the 20-foot Novs Espero with his brother Colln, went to Falmouth to dissuade the pair, without success. Coastguards watching the progress of the South Westerly gale reported по sign of the Barlin and feared she might have been driven fær South and off her course on the first log of the trip, due to end in a South Irish port. Photo shows the Mailers waving good- bye to the fishing Boats which excorted them out of Falmouth into the gale-lashed sea. olated Prem Photo).
New Canadian trail
GREEN AND FOR BRIGHT
(Asso.
YELLOW ESCORTS
Canadian men' are, blazing, ings which are really for sporttles just don't sell at all. It's the a trail of colour across the with 12-inch lopets and a jacket same with carpets. They are too
length just short of my knees. dull, too austere, whole Dominion.
Fashion-Maybe I shall design my own tie "I wish I had 60 per cont less minded males are making with a sketch of Sir Stafford stock of British carpets on hand. Canada not only man's No. 1. Cripps enjoying a good beef i can't sell them. People go for fashion centre, but forming steak and a pint of old and mild. the sort of colours in carpets and Shirts via with sultings in the tapestries that would make a rala- a question mark for British
bow blush." exporters.
There may not be & Saville Row By JAMES ROSS
in Canada, but there is a wide- spread demand for now Ideas in colour craze. here are red and men's clothing. Adam's attire black chock 'shirts on bright has been drab for too long, say the yellow backgrounds. The tie males.
monaco, as my wife calls it, has Greens, light blues, yellows swept Canada from West to East, and gentle shades of puce ore not there is no limit to the audacity confined to the fair sox any more. [of some of them,
My head hangs in shame at the thought of my modest Londen wardrobe. Somehow
tonym,
'This menace'
my natty Lotest idea in the neck wear pin-strips, and Air Force blue line is huminous paint which shirt, and the daring polka-dot makes the the shine at night—a ! the look more like the garb of an glow-worm technique for men, undertaker than A
But, to be more serious, Bri 11:03 about
tish exporters looking for Canadi- that matter, Porhaps the most wonderfulan dollars-or, for thing about the Canadian revolt, American onos when Canadian after the rainbow-coloured new ideas really get cracking in Uncle
Sam's sultings, is the tie.
country-should consider this question of male fashion. No dark browns
British sultings and textiles are Walking in the main street, Imuch too sombre for the Canodi- saw everything depleted on ties, an market, Exporters have got to trom political cartoons to Holly cut out the dark browns and navy Wood's most spectacular produs- blues and remember the pastel tlons.
shades and the yellow, greens
Oh a palo background I saw a and reds. sunset in the Rockies. Against The merchandising manager of a flame red neck-piece was a busy one of Canadian's targo stores: oilfield complete with derricks told me: "Nothing would please and men working in the fare me more than to be able to sell the ground. On other tios were cow-British goods in large quantities. you boys on bucking bronches, Peter Quality of suitings is excellent, heavy Beatt studies of ducks and geese, as good as it ever was, but it is And it takes a long quiet lakes with deer grazing all a question of colour." time before you get a package nearby.
"If they grab you during night the police don't give time lo put on or pack clothing.
from home in the work camps." A tle for avery mood and per-
Such packages were made up sonality. So now I am reforming. by numerous Prague prople
to
Scarlet socks "These blue and grey mocks,"
I have on, at the moment, the no one will look at, Canadian send to arrested relatives. It a latest thing in thirts a warm men are buying these bright yel- BOCKS with the scarlet request came for "high boots and woollen shirt with a gentle three-low
Appalling, you say? a water-proof cont" it usually inch check of rod and mauve on diamonds. was the tip-off that the arrested a pale grey background. My Well, there it is It means a person was in the Soviet-operat-wife winces every time she sees loss of dollars for Britain.
"If Britain wants to sall out uranium mincs near me in it. Jachymov (Joachimsthat) --As- Next summer, I intend to buy here, she's got to change her mind men's fashiosis. British soclated Press.
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