TWO MISSING DIPLOMATS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 7

TWO MISSING DIPLOMATS

Mystery May Soon Be Solved

LONDON, August 30. The British Foreign Office has denied • report published in the “Daily HerJld” that the two missing diplo-

mats. Messrs Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, had been located. A Foreign Office spokesman said that the report was without foundation. He added that the source quoted in the “Daily Herald” report (MIS agents) had made no such statements as those attributed to them.

The “Daily Herald” said to-day that in view of the Foreign Office statement that it had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing diplomats, it had submitted its information to the Foreign Office. The newspaper said that this information included a day-to-day itinerary of the journey the two men made by steamer, train, and aeroplane and where they are now. In spite of the Foreign Office denial of reports that the' two missing diplomats have been found, there is a growing conviction in London that the mysterv is about to be solved. Mrs Melinda Maclean left a villa near St. Tropez, in the south of France today on another mysterious journey. Her sister, Mrs Terrelle, told a London “Evening News” reporter: “She has gone to visit her husband at a village “the Var Department.” The “Evening News” reporter learned Jiat Mrs Maclean has gone to the village of Lagarde Freinet, 20 miles inland from St. Tropez. According to {oral gossin this is where Mr Maclean Is now living. , ’ l^ere was intense police activity in tne area to-day. French intelligence agents from Paris surrounded Mrs Maclean’s villa and allowed no one to approach. •J^ le Z ren . cb police have not received mv official information that Mr Maciean has been found.