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Continued from Page Four appearance of being foreign, and was certainly not that of Burgess, ' 16 According to information LO given to the Foreign Office in confidence by Mrs. Thinbar, Maclean's mother-in- law, who was then living with her daughter af Tatsfield, she received on Atigust 3, 1951, two registered letters posted in St, Gallen, Switzerland, on August. 1. One coitained a draft on the Swiss Bank Corporation, London, for the sum of £1,006 payable. to Mrs. Dunbar: the other, a-drafs payable to Mrs. Dunbar for the same sun, drawn by the Union Bank of Switzerland on the Midland Bank, 122, Old Broad-streel, London. Both dratts were stated to have been remitted by order of @ Mr, Robert Beeker, whose address was given as the Hotel Central, Aurich. Exhaustive inquiries in. col- laporation with the Swiss a aporities have not led to the idantification of Mr. Becker an it is prebable that the name given was false, PNALD DUART MACLEAN HE, WAS “FREE To Go AT ANY TIME A letter . 7 Shortly after the receipt L és of these bank drafts ; aclean received a letter het husband's handwriting. ty Ti had been posted n> Reigate, Surrey, on August 5, 1931. and was of an affectionate, personal nature as from hus- band ta wife, It gave no clie as to Maclean’s whereabouts or The reason for his disappearance, put it explained that Lie bauk drafts, which for convenience had been sent to Mrs. Dunbar, swere intended for Mrs. Maclean. 18 Lady Maclean received a * further letter trom er son on August 16, 1951. There is no doubt that itewas in his own handwriting. 1) had been posted at Herne Hill [in South-East London) on August 11. 19 Mrs. Bassett, the mother Y of Burgess, recewed @ letter in. Burgess’s handwriting y December 22, 1953. The letter was personal pnd ve no information As] 1 urgess’s whereabouts, Tt NBS dmply dated “ Noveniber,” Rud fad been posted in Gouth-Rast London on. Becember 21, .