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The first indtect contacts. 1¢ | 8 ested Mere, may have been madé thabugh her sister and brother-lg-law, Mr. and Mrs. Terrel, wh@ live in Biarritz. People in Beauvallon think these ‘ndirec| contacts prompted Mrs, Maclean to come on holiday to the remote old chateau of La Sauvage- onne—The Little Savage—set off the read two miles from here amid a forest of pine and cypress. La Sauvageonne is owned by M. Gosselin. He is a close friend of the Terrels. And M. Gosselin is not entirely unconnected with France's Secret Service. La Sauvageonne is an ideal hide-out. too. for any first meet- ing belween the Macleans since May 25, the day when Mr. Donale “Maclean so mysteriously disap- veared with his feliow-diplomat. Mr. Guy Burgess, Here with Mrs. Maclean are her nother, Mrs. Dunbar, her two inarried sisters, and her own three children. She has practically barri- caded herself inside the chateau. *‘Resembled her’ But since her somewhat sidden arrival on August 18 she has made ‘hree quiet trips up into the in- evior of this desolate region. The latest was tonight. She ts aejieved to be staying with friends (t Grimaud. four miles from here. figs sister's car is parked at the ifotel Beausoleil there and a room --No. T—is booked for “friends of M. Gosselin.” Yesterday Mrs. Maclean went o the little village of La Garde Freinet, in the picturesque foot- ailis of the Var. six miles from anmaud. She was driven there wun- Jstentatiously by M. Gosselin. Today at La Garde Freinet I was ‘ula at the one and only hotel. the \uberge Sarrisine. by the owner. ML Jean Marquiset, that a woman ‘esembling Mrs. Maclean had vated ‘there vesterday with a “renehman, spparenily expecting © meet somebody. The police came today to inspect the hotel books and see who has jeen staying there recently. Callers at La Sauvageonne this afternoon were told that Mrs. Maclean and ‘he whole family were “not at nome, and we don’t know where hey are,” but I could see them laying near the house. . Berthier, a local inhabitant vHo took his wife up to do some ipndry for the household, tol¢~=s iB wife had a cup of coffee with “is, Maclean. LA SAUVAGEONNE, where Mirs, elinda Maclean is staying with her mother, sisters, and children, Police guards The chateau. with its steep, white walls rising out of the forest, is well guarded. French police inspectors from Marseilles on direct orders from Paris are still on duty there although they remain invisible. And anv unexpected and un- wanted caller trespassing beyond the front driveway gate risks being atlacked by ferocious dogs. A close friend of the family to- day offered the most likely sum- mary of events leading up to the present time. Contact, the friend agrees, was possibly made between Donald Maclean and his wife through her sister and brother-in-law. There were jndications that Maclean, and presumably Burgess, were then in the region. They had been reported seen in bars in Cannes and Nice. The decision was then made for Page THREE—Col. 6 > ‘Macleans in _ Contact’. > From PAGE ONE Mrs. Maclean to “plant” herself here in the hope that it mieht bring her nusband out into the open to see his wife and children —the youngest born only a few days after his disappearance. Mrs. Maclean and family ar- rived, but so did squads of French Police and Special Branch officers. A car-load of them met her at Nice while another car-load arrived simultaneously at the chateau. “The resulting publicity probably frightened o Maclean, who planned to come to see his wife here,” the friend said. “But the authorities say Mrs. [Maclean still believes it worth- while for her to stay on. This beljef may well be rewarded. were made for a spot not far from here, possibly at La Garde Freinet, at once again nothing hap- lave h pened.’ The same friend reports [ le no statements such as th Mrs. Maclean and the whole family | attributed to it. seem in good spirits. Tt is quite probable that arrange- ments for a second rendezvous ‘Detain them’ Understand that the Frengh police who arrived here were alerted by Scotland Yard, and that they have been asked. to detain Maclean and Burgess when found. This has been confirmed from Police headquarters at Nice. Late tonight there has been a further report that Maclean and Burgess had been seen at Cap Camarat, a remote community on the Medj- terranean shore south of here. One further interesting sideline to this mysterious case is that a French Minister recently told some friends in confidence in Cannes that. of course, “both British and French authorities know where Maclean and Burgess are and they are just awaiting the proper time to seize them." ‘Found’ Reports éeniéd by MB JREPORTS Yesterday that Burgess and Maclean had been found produced an unpre: | cedented result, forcing an official statement out of Britain's M15, most silent of silent services, The Foreign Office was used as the mouthpicce for the denial, out facts it contained were issued ' with the approval of Sir Percy | Sillitee, who. as chief of M.I5, is | responsible only) to, the Prime: Minister. | The statement said:*“ Reports published in a section of this morning’s Press that Burgess and Maclean ‘had been located were officially stated by the Foreign Otticg today to be without founda- on. It was added that the Foreign Office had checked that the sougce quoted in the reports (M.1.5) Had eC ‘