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ns ‘HE News Chronicle yester ay | ~ broke the long silence that has blanketed the world mystery of the Missing Macleans. ; This newspaper announced that the first FULL and AUTHENTIC story of | the missing diplomat, Donald Maclean, : and his wife, Melinda, who vanished last if this paper next week. . The announcement rocked the rest of Fleet Street. Rival newspapers, realising with joom- mendable celerity its significance ang the widespread national! concern in the Macleag and Burgess affair, groped for any particle of news, however slender, in their efforts to catch up. - Particularly they grasped at the disclosure that Mrs. Maclean wrote to her mother, Mrs. Dunbar, after she disappeared last autumn. : - Bold headlines were flung urgently across front pages: MRS. MACLEAN MOTHER ; MRS. MACLEAN WRITES. HOME ; \ LETTER FROM MRS. MACLEAN, But their accounts showed that Fleet Strbe s nbws editors still do not know what lies behigd | this:most ¢xtraordinary mystery. Tfonald’s di apcompanie y¢ar with her three children, will begin RITES: TO: LETTER FROM CAIRO - [. Today the FACTS -about the letter fon car ied a stage further.. Facsimile extracts from it are reproduced on this page. The letter posted last October in Cairo—not. from, . ; Some- where in Eastern Europe.” It was short and infinitely pathetic. opened : “‘ Darling Mummy,” and said “‘they ”’ were well. She hoped ‘‘ with all my heart.”’ that her mother would understand how deeply she felt’ the “‘sorrow and worry” her departure would. cause. | It said they all missed Mrs.’ Dunbar and, \ asked her to believe that ‘in my heart I could not have doné otherwise than f-have dene The letter—it was written on a single.sheet of grey-blue notepaper—foris only one 3 episode in the story of the Missing Macleans and of lomat friend Guy Burgess, who him on his journey into {" It known. There is much more to tell. II WILL GRIP EVERYON The whole narrative, related by Geoffrey Hoare, Paris correspondent of the News Chronicle, is one that will grip every reader. Fleet Street wants to know the facts. | | You want to know the facts, ‘These facts will be given in Hoare's exclusive series of articles starting next week _.in the NEWS CHRONICLE. It is the full story. It is the true story. It | pill be widely, read not only for its human inter- est but for its national importance. ' ‘It contains some of the most significant revelations ever printed of this strange age in which we live. WS CHRONICLE from Monday onwardspnd u will be well advised to make sure of reafling There will be a tremendous demand forthe a Missing Macleans by placing a an order cee “your newsagen’ now. =. wa dlgs ‘fe ye nar ORS eg ON Wg i fatto’ Se Mitre eR ay Tas