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SATURDAY, JANUARY ∙1988.

"Top sergeant says to pase word round that it someone don't start getting festive pretty soon he's gonna bust the lot of us in the morning."

Long before Burgess and Maclean vanished, all Europe tried to solve the mystery of another missing_diplomat

THE SECRET LIFE

OF REGINALD LEE

C. D. T. BAKER-CARR

tells another of the World's Strangest Stories

THE British Consular Service is renowned for its tact.just as the Royal Navy is for its silent service, und policemen for the size of their boots, So that if 21 Three people at about 11.30 ad Burgess

Maclean ♫

5. A TITAN recognised wishes to disappear he must him as he walked up the steps do it with aợc little fass at Into Marseilles railway station, the time

Jadependently posible. He and

each

or

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must make the perfect exit, unnoticed until too late. The

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of

other two girls saw him walt-

of the

platforma. Theories were advanced that

ome

Consular Service will not he wrs the victim of อ dope- tolerate any fera f brush amuggling tang bent on ven- unseemliness, loss of dig geance, or that he vanished to nity or lack of thet,

uir

creape them. His widowed

mather arrived at Marseilles

11. Lee, on

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And it was in just such at with mother Fon, Dr Charles

Vice- That manner

July 13.

They certain that drug quito Consul in Marseil es disap- were after him, re- drug peared in July 19:10. There calling that while he was in was no fuss, no hus and ery Hayana he broke up a gang

nothing seemed deprived them, of a

of cocaine. Then more recent-

-in fact.

RUMOUR

cargo

The Vice-Consul

Nearly a month later, on October 20, an unidentified body was found in the depository t St Pierre cemetery at Marseillios -in a coffin that bore no official number plaque. But it Was not Lee's.

For the next nine months no muro wha board of the Les! mystery, and then events took a

A drug

ammuggler confessed in Japan that Loo had been murdered.

Third-degree had been ated go on saka chemist, Klada Kyoji, after his atrest for opium entugging. He admitted his guilt and bald that Lov's

death had bee

been organked his smuggling partner Touns- mitras

Apparently Loo had discovered that drugs were being at so

Marseilles and from there on to India. told the police, and in revenge was kidnapped, idilled and his body thrown in the sea.

40

He

In March, 1934, the Japanese police bi Osaka hud swtened their a

attentions to a donce-hall Mahnger called Sennosuke Asul He w

was believed to be the mastermind behind

spirited Lee away. M. Cals and was known to

an

Than British Intelligence International gang of dopo Service were accused of having uggiera, had jumped his ball 藤 blackmailing charge hoxi hlingolf served in the living in the South of FriNED have been Franch

counter

espionage at the time of Vice-Consul on August 8, he was convinced that such Intelle Lee's disappearaice, ON N July 18, rumour cald that

manoeuvred genco. hod

Lee's Lee had gone to Egypt, But quiet exit.

and

SKELETON

to happen for sev ral days, ly in Morsellies, they sald, he Heghald Arthur Lee had thwarted a gang of dopo sma disappeared with act, And glers ond seized £120,000 worth of drugs. (This, in fact, he has never been found.

was chanied by the new Acting Soon after midday

OTI Viac-Consul). July 5. 1930. 3.1-year-old Vice-Consul Low tidied his office, left £12 on his desk and walked out .nto the sunshine. At nout 8.30 the same evening e drove his car 100 yard. to his like the rest of these clues this Meanwhile, private agents,

led nowhere. That night fresh criminologists and lock-up garage, chatted to

Informatio arrived, and of a newspapermen wera walked

scouring

July the proprietor and

21. 1930 Mr type guaranteed to excito any Marsodic for a likely clue. And home to his flat i the Rue Frenchman. It was a postcard, Marseilles did not disappoint to

Justice Langton gave leave PTCsume the Inside on

death of de Valence. There he hung

envelope, from the

Reginald Arthur. Le them.

*10% OF up the keys to the garage been delivered

Women In the Case. It had On July 19 á valise was found since July 5, 1990." in their customary place on Consulate at the British

consisted floating at the water's edgo at estate

of several Ave days, after the nearby Montredon. Inside were thousand pounds, but he had a nail. That much is cer- disappearance but had not some men (no markings),

no will

In November been handed to the police. The bottle half full at whisky and a the same year his brother was sold he had photograph of a woman, On the granted probate of his estate

valued Th card came from a Swiss-

tain.

PROMISING

new Vice-Consul "overlooked" £

hordes of

ON

was written: “I am com-

1

Came

键 little over $4,500, 100) From the visoqua mud suicide. Nobody is to

at: German girl called Ide Buchter, 22228956,

the bottom ot Marseilles #nursemaid who had onco . A fisherman told the police harbour

clue tri REGINALD Leo had a pro- been in service

with

the Liens

that

set the the previous night he had October 1937, which mising career ahead of family. Later

told the seen a man wearing pink-striped this the body of the missing

wes rld asking once more him. Promotion se smed cer- go taking evidence on pyjamas writing a letter on the Vice-Consul? A dredger had

the disappearance M, Pierrucel, shore. tail.

The

she

TA

that she first mot. Leo, in 1920. whs on again,, f'far the body ought up, the rusted remaink

Lee was a bache ior, about He fell deeply in love with her 5ft. 10in. tall, with thinning and for long Ume wished to red hair, high forehead, marry her, but she realised the

dimculties-privato and ·DIO="

STARTLING

grey (very shor-sighted) ragionai-and saw him for the pure the body found was eyes, and of sligst build. last time on May 29, 1930, when B that of a worpen and she was

of a car.

of a man just) VOCE, BIL. Did talk (Low's height Wim tướn, ka 52. 10in.) The police made another

Insido was the skeleton

attempt at reconstructioy ethe

crime: They believed that

He was last seen wearing ho spent the day with her at hot weak ng pyjamas. Then the violin. Loo, had stumbled on a biown sult, irey felt Saint-Veran, near Nimes,

os at Toulon gave up another come vital secret, which threat-

On July 8. she received a corpse bbt. -hat und rimle pince anal iter in which ha

"Without you iò ha no

nez.

On July 10 the is begin. Ing for me The French police were told Once the police had; that he had been lasting for od the idea of an soveral days and authority was they began to

granted from Lon on toy the other theories.

and his flat is be found

for the end the exilience L

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Copies of photographi taken by the South China Morning Post, South China Sunday Post-Herald, and China Mail Staff Photo- graphors Aro

view in the Morning Post Building.

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