TWO MISSING DIPLOMATS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26517, 4 September 1951, Page 3

TWO MISSING DIPLOMATS

STILL NO CLUE FOR SEARCHERS (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 2. A Foreign Office spokesman to-day said that the authorities searching for the missing diplomats, Messrs Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess had not reached any conclusions about their whereabouts. He was commenting on a newspaper report saying that the authorities had concluded that the men were behind the Iron Curtain. The spokesman emphatically reiterated: “We don't know where they are, or where they aren’t.” Earlier a spokesman said that the “Daily Herald” had supplied information purporting to give the whereabouts of the two men, but it added nothing to what was already known. The alleged itinerary has been checked, but the investigators found ho proof that Messrs Burgess or Maclean had travelled that way. Their movements are still unknown from the time they reached St. Malo on May 25, and the situation is now the same as on the day they disappeared. The “Daily Express” says that 13 weeks’ exhaustive search for Messrs Burgess and Maclean in a dozen different countries has not brought the mystery one step nearer solution. The newspaper asserts that Mrs Maclsan has no knowledge of her husband’s whereabouts or why he disappeared. It states that MIS, after studying reports from the security police of all Western countries, is understood to have reached the conclusion that the two men are behind the Iron Curtain —in which country cannot at present be established. The “Daily Express” repeats its offer of £lOOO reward for evidence that will definitely establish the whereabouts of the men.