Chronicle. Their sales would combine to make 1,400,000, which seemed to offer a viable future. It was not a merger of equals, however, and the loss of jobs was borne by the Chronicle. The News Chronicle prospered until 1956 when its opposition to the UK's involvement in the Suez crisis caused it to lose readers. Again facing closure, the only offer of help came from Associated Newspapers whose Daily Mail had been the Chronicle's adversary since its launch in 1896. Associated took an option to buy the company if it did not return to profit. When it failed to do that by the summer of 1960, Associated took over the News Chronicle's plant, property and goodwill. The paper disappeared and, with it, the last vestiges of the Daily Chronicle''. Editors 1872: J. A. Manson 1877: R. Whelan Boyle 1890: Alfred Ewen Fletcher 1895: Henry William Massingham 1899: W. J. Fisher 1904: Robert Donald 1918: Ernest Perris References External links The Daily Chronicle - an advertising bookmark of the newspaper from 1894 Defunct newspapers published in the United Kingdom Publications established in 1872 Publications disestablished in 1960 Daily Mail and General Trust 1872 establishments in the United Kingdom